HELLO MONTANA

I would never go to Montana. Too much of nothing going on there.

my tummeh hurts, but izzok.

I applied for food stamps today. I'm hoping to get some results from that, cause even if it's $200 a month for food, I'll at least have my food budget secured.

I've been applying to jobs hardcore all day today. I emailed several postings on craigslist, including: gas station attendent, cashier at a hardware store, cashier at a hotel, house keeping at the same hotel, and one I'm most excited about: a butcher's apprentice.

I don't know, there's something old timey and awesome about the notion of apprenticing under a butcher that just seems cool. And it's not like it's at one of those big corporate, scary slaughterhouses, it's a small deli/restaurant thing called Plum's Market in Ann Arbor, it seems pretty cool and hip.

If I got the butcher gig, it would be 9 bucks an hour. figure if I work for 25 hours a week, it would be $225/week. So, $900 a month. Work May-August (not including part time hours I could get in April, or beyond August), and that works out to $3,600. Not a fortune, but enough to secure schooling, and a place to live.

My dad also called me yesterday about a potential job back home, in Bridgman. It's w/ a sand mining company, so it's bound to be hard work, but labor jobs like that pay really really well, so if I get that job, I'll just move back after school is over at the end of April, and work there all summer.

I'm still looking at/applying as I type this.

Yesterday was the wake up call I needed to get my shit in gear. Getting a job probably won't fix anything, but it's still something that needs to be done. So that's good I reckon.

I meant to go buy groceries today. But I didn't. All well. I can live off of Ramen until Thursday.