Apparently "I need daily access to my email and bus fare is expensive" means nothing to these people. A monthly bus pass in this city is $100. Paying $5 a day to get to the library and back would be even more than that. If both Robin Hood and I both need to make daily trips to the library, where's that money going to come from? Apparently they're also cutting the satellite (fine. The only show I even watch just finished last night and tends to have like, two-year waits between series) and the HOME PHONE. Yes, I get it. Having two extra people in the house is expensive, but we are never going to get out if they cut off the internet and the phone. It's not like we have cell phones. We don't even have a fucking bank account. Honestly, is cutting the internet and phone really going to save them that much that they'll be willing to foot the $200 transportation bill plus a cellphone for us to use on our job hunts? Robin Hood has done some stupid shit without thinking it through, and I can see exactly where he gets that.

Seriously, what good is cutting the phone going to do? Now on the extremely off-chance that someone does want to hire us, they won't even be able to phone for an interview. What the actual fuck?

The real tragedy is that I have literally nowhere else to go. I'm not welcome to stay with my mother, because her boyfriend is sort of a douchewaffle, and there's even less room at my dad's than there is here, and I'd never get anything done. There's plenty of room at my grandmother's, but she lives so far out in the sticks they can't even get internet.


In slightly more happy news, you probably noticed that I got accepted with Jukepop, and way earlier than the 6-8 weeks the site said to expect. I combed through the TOS about three times and ultimately liked what I saw. I didn't even notice until the day after that I bypassed the 'aspiring author' programme new submissions tend to go into. That was the only thing about it I felt was really sketchy, because of how the payment works for those people (you don't get paid until you reach a certain rating). It seems instead that they'll accept just about anything, but put the stuff that is sort of... well, bad into the aspiring author thing (Sophie and I read a few of them, and were not impressed with the huge walls o' text and absurd prose). At this point, I'm almost entirely convinced it's a talent scout. Now I'm just wondering what their parent company is.

The plan WAS to post a new chapter every Friday, but now I'm not sure how I'm going to manage that with no internet.