Reporting from work... scanning slides into the computer, ten minutes between each slide for whatever I want to do. ;)

Susan - I know you've been through it. I'm just really despairing right now because I don't know where I'll be living in two weeks. It's just stress, I've moved too many times this year already. 29 times in 23 years, and no end in sight. I've been looking for apartments and can't find anything yet. Not that I can afford $600 a month in rent anyway, whether I'm working or not. Which means women's shelters, and I probably can't take my computer with me to those... which means I wouldn't be able to work on either projects or schoolwork. So... the housing/work situation looks very bleak two weeks from now. I just don't know...

I've also been doing not much else but crying for the past two weeks, because I didn't want to leave the place I was staying. I'm really missing those people. Ok, I *was* emailing people looking for a place to stay or people to share with and looking for an apartment. And doing work for Hero6.

Mary - Health care doesn't cover alternative treatment, or alternative dental work. (I have high levels of mercury as it is, and am allergic to that, too.) Health care does cover the cost of going to an optometrist for a prescription, but does not cover filling the prescription with glasses.

If I go to welfare for help, or to legal aid for help getting welfare, it would be better to do that after actually getting the loans. I have to get ID and photo ID to get the loans, and I spent that money on food, because I couldn't bear stealing food from my roommates any longer. (I paid them back.)

I am currently in a job and inelegible for welfare, even though the job is only going to last about a week, and get me about $600 (hey, that's $80 more than the maximum welfare for the month). So I get ID and pay off $400 in debt as soon as I get that, then get the loans, then apply for welfare. (I've applied for the loans and have four weeks to get the supporting documentation.)

If I had applied for welfare before, I would have been kicked off as soon as I got the loan, so I'd be in the same situation, except that this way I can actually do some work to help people out AND get money.

People need to be needed, too. Maybe that's why I love Hero6 so much... because of me, the team KNOWS that we're 40% final on the music, and we KNOW what needs to be done to get even further.

I'm not needed flipping burgers or doing counter work, I'd need to be able to see, I'd need to be steady in energy rather than fluctuating depending on circumstances I can't control, and with that type of work I can't simply roll out of bed into a chair, toss a blanket over myself and work WHILE I'm sick.

So... I need to get this CD done and get some help about marketing it. Because I can actually do that, just add receiving money for it.