Thursday, July 23, 2009

My Life: A Change For the Permanent-y?

So, change is happening again! Yay! Yay. First of all, I may or may not have found a semi-permanent job again. That's the good news. The bad news is that, for now, it pays $10 an hour so people can scream at me about garbage. In other words, we're talking about customer service. I'm a temp to hire for now, so I'm temping and may get hired for a more reasonable $13 an hour in three months. Whether I'm up to that is another story, but we'll see. In the meantime, I have a more immediate concern. My roommate is declaring bankruptcy and moving out next month. That's not a big problem, since my lease ends that month as well and I was planning on moving out anyway. That means, however, that I need to find a new place and, more importantly, another roommate. I can find a cheaper place than this, yes, but a cheap place paid by myself is still much more than two people paying for a single place.

So that's my next two panic situations. I have at least one link for the apartment issue that I have to check out tomorrow, so my great fear, moving back with the parents, appears to be averted for now. But it's not so simple. Part of me hopes to live in or closer to the city so I can theoretically enjoy it's presence. But that makes me too far from my current job, so I likely can't keep it. No big loss, but it might mean losing my unemployment. And there's also the cost and hassle of moving. Being a nitwit, I bought a lot of nice furniture, and while I finally paid all of it, it's all really damn heavy. I need either a lot of help or movers. Either way, it'll be trickier, but at least it won't be in the winter like the one time I helped my brother move. And I probably won't need to drag a couch up a balcony by a tow rope and almost drop it on a car. That's a good story, that one, but not one I want to relive with stuff I paid for.

So that's the first two phases of my process. This isn't the best time to finally get back to my D&D game and try to sell my screenplay next year. But, I'm doing it anyway!