I feel like absolute fucking hell today. I can never tell if I am getting sick here because I do not know if I am just plugged up because I have allergies. I am also tired as hell because I am on “short” sleep the last few days, and I have been working fairly hard. Regardless, I hope it goes away quickly. But enough complaining from me…
The last few days have been really good. I went down to see Carrie on Sunday, which was probably the worst day to do it given the damn weather. It started snowing about an hour before I left and the highways were terrible by the time I got on them. I think I fishtailed about twice while driving, and it only got better as the snow turned to sleet and then rain and then the roads started getting slippery as hell. Finally got there, and then had to endure the 2hr ride back on iced roads in the morning for my 9a student. *sigh*
Only had 2 students on Monday, but had my Stox video launch and also my COTW got released. So my entire day was spent answering questions and reading reviews. It was fun though and kept me busy. I still haven’t finished my next video for Stox yet, but have a few ideas and will scrap one of them together. Then had another 3 students today, and have another 3 tomorrow. I am also going up to visit my sister at school tomorrow which should be good. And then the rest of the week is just work and such.
I also started to look at apartments today. Still a little early, but figured I would start pricing out some areas. I am moving back east at some point in the next few months and don’t want to be a bum. It amazes me that people will live in some of the areas they do…people just let living expenses drain them. O well, I will figure out something and go on from there.
Hope all is well!
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Get well soon, amigo.
Housing is one of those things that is worth the money at the end of the day. I tried cutting corners for a long time, living with deadbeat roommates and then alone in a cheaply remodeled attic. Now I live alone in a tiny house in a quiet neighborhood — but I can walk to a bar in five minutes, a Star Market in ten, and can take the T downtown in 40, and it’s worth every penny. I have my space and when I want to be around people, they are right there too. Now, hah, I even have a dishwasher and I don’t know how I ever lived without one.
Good luck on the search!
Its summer here split
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Oh riiiight you feel like hell.
Sorry to make things worse.
Conan: i just mean ppl that make rent equal to their income…and go into debt because the rest of life isnt free. where do you live btw?
Digger: i feel muuuuuuuuuch better now! thanks!
Oh, yeah: I’ve known people who do that, but it’s usually folks who have never been west of Framingham, and that was only once when they got on the wrong bus. I’ve tried explaining to them that there’s a whole rest of a country out there where you can have an $8/hr job and actually make a living, but their eyes often just glaze over. They’d just rather be puttering about in a small land and constantly broke. Go figure.
Then in the next class up, you’ve got the people who bought homes and got endless HELOC’s from the bank and ended up spending their homes and then some during the last boom. I never drank the kool-aid, but now my tax dollars are hard at work bailing all the involved idiots out. Ah, but don’t get me started.
I’m in east Watertown, just on the Belmont line and a stone’s throw from Cambridge. My jobsite is out in the ‘burbs, so the commute takes a stretch of time, but I couldn’t go back to suburban living after getting so bored of it in my youth, so this semi-urban setting works for me.