Mind Your Own God Damn Business

So, I’m in what you might call a financial “pinch” right now.

As you know, I’ve been living the glamorous lifestyle of a substitute teacher for a couple of years now – getting worked over by little kids, waking up at a different time every day, never being sure if and when my next job will be – you know, the kind of decadent, frivolous lifestyle that people a tier below public school teachers are famous for. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a lot of work living that lifestyle, but it’s all worth it when you see that paycheck at the end of the month. The day after I get paid, I always immediately go to the bank and start making it rain. Not just at the club, mind you; I do it everywhere. The grocery store, on the can, even in my sleep – If it’s payday and I’m nearby, there are bills flying everywhere.

Then, I decided to go back to school this summer. What can I say? It makes me uneasy when I’m not enrolled in college, throwing money into a degree that might or might not end up paying off. I did it for eight years after high school, and without a few thousand going to a college every semester, my finances were getting dangerously stable.

There’s a slight problem with this, though: college costs money, and it simultaneously cuts down on your opportunities to work and make money. I’ve had fewer opportunities to steal cell phones and break up in-class hand jobs (I wrote about that day on here right? There’s no way I didn’t), and a little bit less cash as a result.

It was tighter than usual this semester (I was only able to make it rain 8 hours a day instead of my usual 24), but I managed to stretch things out just right based on early payment from the school district in December. They pay you on the last work day of the month, which is at the beginning of Christmas break.

Normally.

I got an email about a week into December nonchalantly mentioning that we wouldn’t be getting paid until the end of the month this year. No explanation, no “Sorry guys, there’s no money anywhere in the budget and we really need to invest this cash for another two weeks so we can have a little bit more capital”, just “Happy Holidays! Go fuck yourself! <3 The District”

Again, still not the end of the world. It will keep me from spending my paycheck on frivolous garbage like Christmas presents and health insurance, and when next month rolls around, I’ll get my paycheck AND my student loans. Forecast for January: Cloudy and humid with a 120% chance of… rain.

So why am I telling you this?

As luck would have it, my subscription to my hosting service runs out on December 29th, the day before I get paid. What does that mean for my sweet, sweet blog? It’s hard for me to say, because I’m not really sure. At the very least, it won’t be around on the 29th. I’m going to back everything up and then get some more hosting when I get paid, and I THINK that the domain name will stay the same. I’m about as knowledgeable about webpage design as my Dad is at using…well, any electronic device with more than three buttons on it (It would be kind of cute if it wasn’t so frustrating), so for all I know, It’ll go down, I’ll lose the website, and then my computer will burst into flames. We’ll see. If it doesn’t come back up in a day or two, send me a message, and I’ll let you know where I’ve popped up afterwards, because let’s be honest: I can’t handle the idea of knowing a lot of damning information about myself and others if I don’t have a place on the Internet to put all of it up.

In a way, I’m wondering if it’s kind of a good thing. I think I need to re-evaluate this whole blog thing. I like doing it, but I feel like I’ve kind of crapped out. I’m not updating as much, and when I do, the quality seems kind of low. I feel like I’ve forgotten how to be interesting. I’m not sure what happened exactly; it’s not like I’m not trying as hard or I’ve developed a drug addiction,  but when I look back at my more recent entries, I feel more and more disappointed with the quality of them.

Anyway, I’ll keep things going until then, and when there’s no site here on December 29th, you’ll know why. Hopefully it’ll be back up on the 30th.

This is the point where I embed a video that nobody watches normally, and I was going to put in “I make it rain” by Fat Joe, but then I realized that song is horrible.

Instead, here’s a video of Torchlight, the first game I plan on playing when I can play games again.

GOOD DAY!