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saturday, may 27 |
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so i went by the video store to pick up another movie (conceiving ada, which in all fairness wasn't that good, but it had tilda swinton [orlando] in it, and that's good enough.) and to maybe sneak a peak at sleater-kinney (the venue's wall to wall with the video store) last night. things were pretty nice, and stomping in my boots still's a treat. and then it alllll went downhill from there. i stopped by a place which has the best caesar salad on earth only to halfway through the meal bite down hard on a tiny pebble not rinsed off the salad. i got the meal for free, but have to see a dentist. hooray. the only good part about it is that they're nice people and didn't put up a fight about it but rather recommended that i send the bill to them immediately after i've taken care of the tooth. then i did some shopping which went wonderfully well - in fact, a coupon and my vic card cut $2 off my toothpaste. walk walk waaalk, get home, put down groceries, check the mail and... my application for work authorization was denied. that means $100 down the drain and me unable to get a job which i desperately need. hooray. great. so i'm a bit confused as to what i'm to do right now. actually, a bit is a severe understatement. things are fucked up. good: i've got the apartment until the last of july paid thanks to the house-sale back in sweden. bad: after july 31'st i have nowhere to live, and no income to insure that i can afford a new place unless it's stupid-cheap, and where i live now is as cheap as it comes. further bad things: i screwed up two classes which means i got less credits than i need to keep getting my loan from the swedish government. if i don't get the loan from the government, i can't pay tuition/any bills next semester. end result: jennie hauls ass back hooooooome. the solution right now would be to find work anyways and get paid under the table but i have no idea how to go about that. i feel a bit like the guys in office space trying to figure out how to launder money. ("how come bad guys, who are stupid, know this, and we, who are smart, have to look it up in a dictionary?") i'm told i could clean houses... except i don't drive, nor have a car, nor have cleaning supplies and, oh yeah, i'm not that spectacular at cleaning. i could baby-sit... but kids are kind of scary unless they're garrett (who i am babysitting today - he's freaking me out coz he's refusing to nap which means he's gonna be grumpy all night. argh.) and they'd have to live someplace close that i can get to.. currently i'm going to try and be a guinea pig, though. you know all those medical tests and researches? yeah, i'm signing up for those. they're supposed to pay decent, and so what if i turn into a she-hulk by mistake? it actually sounds kind of exciting. so. more on this later on. i should get ready for garrett getting up from his "nap". last time i checked on him he was upset because the morning lamp hadn't turned on yet (a timed lamp that clicks on to tell him nap is over). "that's because it's not time to get up from nap yet, garrett" ... his argument almost slayed me:
yes, garrett, i know, but the light's just not on yet. night. |
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