I LOVE artschool. I HATE being a student. With lots of "Fucks!"

[glych]

Quite a conundrum, isn't it?

See, I LOVE the challenge of art school. I love my classes, my assignments, my fellow student body, my instructors, even the whole challenge of the thing.

What I don't like is being poor. Dirt poor. I'm living off of my credit card right now. I'm patiently waiting for my check for my student loan, but it'll probably be

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[dv_girl]

It's like that even if you have a day job. Plus you spend every free minute feeling guilty you aren't working on your art when you're too tired to move or angry that you can't advance your art projects. I think something close to 40% of my paycheck is going to fund Bush's fucking war. Sure, a chunk of it is called social security but that's a laugh. It won't be there for me. It's all being eaten by the military. It's not you or me that's the failure. It's this country that's the failure.

On a tangent, I've been waiting for a couple of weeks to try to work the phrase, "Medici Rubber Fetish" into a conversation. This is as close as I'm likely to get. A friend and I were talking about the Medicis and I suggested that's what she needed. A Medici with a rubber fetish.

[glych]

Lea-

I completely hear you. I agree. We TOTALLY need Rubber-loving Medicis!

I feel like our society is crumbling around us. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about people. I love people. It's just our society that I have issues with... Where "starlet" wealthy heirs like Nicole Richie or Paris Hilton can have HUGE coke problems, party every night, drug busts, and squander away millions they never earned to support all of their habits and friends and are adored for it, while good hard working people (not even necessarily artists) struggle throughout their lives to try and tuck away a few pennies to hopefully pay for a funeral so they don't doom their surviving family members to debt caused by their death. I hate "The Mickey Law" that copyright has turned into. I hate all of the legalese loopholes that screw people over and empower others. I hate the hypocrisy of senators and governors and candidates of all merit digging for dirt on their rivals rather than simply admitting their own. I don't like how our government is in the pockets

[glych]

doy, not Lea- >_< I totally got your name wrong. So sorry.

[postrophe]

What did the doc say when you zinged him?

(Believe me, the hoops the artists had to squeeze through to keep their dukes and cardinals happy would make you sick anyway - and you thought just paying taxes was an authoritarian hassle! Just had a conversation about this regarding musicians and composers; they frequently didn't even have rights to perform their own work...)

[glych]

Yeah, but then you can sneak the pictures of certain Cardinals into your frescos with snakes biting their ball-sacks :)

I didn't say it with the "fucking" or anything when I was talking to him. He just kind of blinked at me and tried to repeat the same thing over like "well, you must have at LEAST $50 or so..." When I cut him off with "look. I don't have no $50, not no way not no how. I have exactly $13.50 in my bank account right now. That is all I have to my name! If you feel I need the pain, medication, you pay for it out of your wallet, because I- cannot."

He just grimaced and ushered me out the door. I don't think he appreciated that the only way I was going to get the pain meds was if he paid for them. I mean, I know that Doctors who do shifts at free clinics and the like don't get paid very much for said shifts (and are usually only 1st year residents or medical students anyway) so they aren't making the big bucks yet or anything, but still no money is not the same as "pull magical super money out of your ass."

Geez.

[postrophe]

I have noted in some people - particularly professional types, like doctors, engineers and such - the utter inability to comprehend the idea of broke.. it's as if for them, broke means can't go to the concert because the money is earmarked for the car repair - but not having ANY cash for even cup-o-noodles just Does Not Compute... "Aw come on! That doesn't really happen!" It's the Let Them Eat Cake effect, and that shows how long it's been around...

(And now I gotta go look me up some frescoes! I smell LJ icon meat!)

[glych]

I've lived here since August of last year so...maybe... How do I go about doing that?

[glych]

Will do. Thank you.

[patjade]

*Checks to see what's available*

[glych]

No, honey...you've helped me out so much already :(

[patjade]

Ah, but that's what friends are for. Helping when it is needed.

[glych]

Damn you and your help!

*shakes fist*

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Thank you.