sleeping is all i wanna do (though i know my life is waiting for decisions to be made)

[faeriemaiden]

Today I came into work to check the new schedule, as the work week begins on Thursday and I wanted to know if I could indeed get off for the weekend for the music festival Dad and I have been planning to attend for several months now. The new schedule wasn't up, so I went upstairs to the office to ask about it.

"Oh, well," said the manager, "I didn

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[lady_moriel]

*hugs hugs hugs*

Okay. Here is a plan. Call your aunt and uncle. Just find out, first of all, if that's an option--because if it is, you wouldn't be living there alone, and you'd have housing completely taken care of, which...would probably be the biggest hurdle to getting away (if nothing else, it's...probably the one thing I can't see a good alternative to, at the moment, if it doesn't work--but then, if you have family in other cities, you could see about that as at least a temporary option, too). Then call Susu and see if she can still hire you. If she can't or she isn't sure, start trawling the Boston Craigslist and see what's available. Even if the job market there isn't great, it's such a big city that I would think you'd be guaranteed to get something before too long--unlike DuBois where the job market is clearly very finite and very bad. (Although if there are chain stores there that you haven't applied for, that might be a good idea...like Walmart or fast-food places or something, as crap a job as that would be.) I can take

[cerulean_sky]

There are so many comics I want to read and no way to get them without spending a lot of money I haven't got.

You might try torrenting them. I have the a whole CD of various whole series of things that I downloaded (Lucifer and Fables and most of Marvel's Civil War among them, I believe). Sometimes you need a program to read the format (I think the one I had for a while was SimpleComic) and they're also free. No massive amount of moneys needed!

[faeriemaiden]

Awww, this has cheered me mightily. I even found a useful LJ comm & am waiting for acceptance. While I'd totally buy comics that I end up loving and wanting to read over and over again, not being able to try anything out is frustrating. (I could never read fileshared books, however. Ouch, my head hurts just thinking about it. :P)

[cerulean_sky]

I am happy to have cheered you up!

LJ comms are usually really helpful for this sort of thing. I think I got most of my stuff from my friend's college's hub, but I'm 99% sure you can find comics on places like btjunkie.org. If there's non-kiddie manga that you're interested in, you might try mangafox.com. I've been reading the few things that still interest me over there.

[bornofstars]

I postively ache for you, darling. It's not fair, none of this is fair. You have a right to be angry, and it might help you in the end. Please please please look into getting away from DuBois. Even if Susu doesn't have an opening, you could probably still live with your aunt and uncle, right? If they live in the city itself, there should be lots of jobs - maybe not as many as there would be if the economy wasn't depressed, but still plenty of jobs. Chain restaurants and stores usually have openings at least a couple times a year. Places that pay minimum wage usually have a high turn-over rate for workers because, sadly, they attract people who steal or aren't reliable or just don't care that much. But they also attract poor young people like you and I, who are willing to work hard for little money, and it's not usually difficult to stay on the payroll if that's the situation. It sounds like you were probably let go at both jobs because your town is so small that they just don't get very much business

[faeriemaiden]

Thank you, darling; I feel incredibly privileged to know you as well. ♥

I worry about you moving away from your family and friends, because it's difficult to live without emotional support, especially if one suffers from depression.

I worry about this, too, except that I realise it's a flimsy excuse -- most of my friends are gone, Sarah's going off to college, and I love my family, but... I really really really want to be on my own, when I'm not too busy being terrified about it. My best friends are on the internet, and that's how it's been most of my life until recently, you know? And I do know a fair amount of people in the Boston area, even if most of them are grown-ups and friends of my parents, and Aunt Linda is the kind of person who has Harry Potter watching parties -- I'm not close-close to Uncle Tom and Aunt Linda, but I feel rather that I could be, and aren't only because we've had so few opportunities to hang out, as it were. They're very interesting, geeky, good-hearted, globally-minded people. And, hey, both Mum and I

[everydayjoy]

That was a SUPER unprofessional way for the boss to let you go. Serious professionalism fail!

[everydayjoy]

Sorry! Replied to a comment instead of the post there.

[midenianscholar]

Kyra is brilliant. I second her suggestions.

I'd also say: Start now. Tomorrow. Email or call your aunt and uncle and Susu. Get it going before you can get even more freaked out about it. I know you feel awful right now, but waiting just makes things worse. Shoot out emails or phone calls and work until you leave--then take the weekend and forget and have fun. By the time you come back, you might already be getting some results.

[liveonthesun]

That's awful! And it's even more awful that they didn't even give you a real reason. I am so, so sorry.

On the comics issue, I have the first two Buffy comic omnibuses and it's going to be a while before I have the time to read them. Want me to send them to you and you can just mail them back when you're done?

[faeriemaiden]

Heh, the best reason I got was that the manager has this ~Special Magical Intuition~ where she just Knows if someone isn't going to work out. SHE JUST ~KNOWS~, EVERYBODY. :P

And YOU are ridiculously sweet, and I would totally love that, thank you! ♥