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Wiscon, the friends house, say...
Apr. 24th, 2004 05:58 pmOkay. Found a cheap-ish flight and bought it. I will get in the early evening of Friday, and leave about the same time on Monday. I hope it doesn't suck. I'm counting on all of you making it not suck.
I had been planning on staying with Hannah and Tempest and Merry's roommate, but that fell through, so I think right now the plan is that I stay with Sarah P, who I'm hoping isn't scary, and whomever else is in that room. And if that falls through as well, I will look sad and pathetic, and someone will let me sleep on their floor.
I still feel meh about having bought the ticket (especially since I had to pay cash for it, since my credit cards are at very low limits. (this is something I regret doing over the past year: telling the very annoying person at the credit card company that them raising my interest rate was stupid, even if a few of my payments had been a few days late. "It's because you're a higher risk of not paying off your cards, if you loose your jobs or something." I reply, "But I haven't had a job in 6 months, and I haven't missed one since." and boom! My credit limits drop to literally a hundred or so above what was on them. grrr. Though I still haven't missed a payment.)), but I looked at the numbers, and I basically made enough money last week (before taxes, but we'll ignore that) to pay for the ticket. So assuming I keep getting temp work, even if not full time fancy stuff, and I should be okay over all.
I still need to buy a membership, which I may do in a few minutes or tomorrow or something, and I need to make sure I'll have a place to stay, which I should also do tonight.
I got my information and application for the Friends House yesterday (www.bhfh.org), and I'm being torn about the whole thing right now, but leaning towards trying it. I think I'll probably apply--it costs nothing, and isn't anything really hard (just an essay basically about why you want to live there), and I should at least get an interview, as quakers are given preference in the application process. I don't know if I'd really like the place, or if they'll have an opening soon enough for my tastes, and I'm sad about the idea of not having my cats while i stay there, but I'm pretty sure I want to apply. It's a community house. I'd pay $715 a month, and they'll feed me, house me, and pay all my utilities (I don't know what the phone/internet deal is, but I'd find out at the interview). I would have to share a room, but I've done that before. And I miss college. I miss being a part of a community, and I don't know how to find friends and jobs and places to stay without a community. If I got accepted and lived there, I'd be very centrally located in Boston (it's just a few blocks from the Boston Commons), which would make temp work much easier to get to, and would make looking for housing also easier to get to. It would also help me get to be part of the quaker community in the area, which is often a very good way to find a place where I would like to stay. The downsides--well, are all the downsides of living with any community, and I think I'm still young enough and flexible enough in my life to be able to handle them. So I think probably tomorrow I'll fill out the application, and write up my essay, and type it and send it out by monday or tuesday. I don't think I've got temp work monday, so I might as well get something taken care of.
And Gwenda's latest journal entry says that they're slushing for Say tonight. Whee! I take back my evil comments. I didn't mean them. I love you guys!
I had been planning on staying with Hannah and Tempest and Merry's roommate, but that fell through, so I think right now the plan is that I stay with Sarah P, who I'm hoping isn't scary, and whomever else is in that room. And if that falls through as well, I will look sad and pathetic, and someone will let me sleep on their floor.
I still feel meh about having bought the ticket (especially since I had to pay cash for it, since my credit cards are at very low limits. (this is something I regret doing over the past year: telling the very annoying person at the credit card company that them raising my interest rate was stupid, even if a few of my payments had been a few days late. "It's because you're a higher risk of not paying off your cards, if you loose your jobs or something." I reply, "But I haven't had a job in 6 months, and I haven't missed one since." and boom! My credit limits drop to literally a hundred or so above what was on them. grrr. Though I still haven't missed a payment.)), but I looked at the numbers, and I basically made enough money last week (before taxes, but we'll ignore that) to pay for the ticket. So assuming I keep getting temp work, even if not full time fancy stuff, and I should be okay over all.
I still need to buy a membership, which I may do in a few minutes or tomorrow or something, and I need to make sure I'll have a place to stay, which I should also do tonight.
I got my information and application for the Friends House yesterday (www.bhfh.org), and I'm being torn about the whole thing right now, but leaning towards trying it. I think I'll probably apply--it costs nothing, and isn't anything really hard (just an essay basically about why you want to live there), and I should at least get an interview, as quakers are given preference in the application process. I don't know if I'd really like the place, or if they'll have an opening soon enough for my tastes, and I'm sad about the idea of not having my cats while i stay there, but I'm pretty sure I want to apply. It's a community house. I'd pay $715 a month, and they'll feed me, house me, and pay all my utilities (I don't know what the phone/internet deal is, but I'd find out at the interview). I would have to share a room, but I've done that before. And I miss college. I miss being a part of a community, and I don't know how to find friends and jobs and places to stay without a community. If I got accepted and lived there, I'd be very centrally located in Boston (it's just a few blocks from the Boston Commons), which would make temp work much easier to get to, and would make looking for housing also easier to get to. It would also help me get to be part of the quaker community in the area, which is often a very good way to find a place where I would like to stay. The downsides--well, are all the downsides of living with any community, and I think I'm still young enough and flexible enough in my life to be able to handle them. So I think probably tomorrow I'll fill out the application, and write up my essay, and type it and send it out by monday or tuesday. I don't think I've got temp work monday, so I might as well get something taken care of.
And Gwenda's latest journal entry says that they're slushing for Say tonight. Whee! I take back my evil comments. I didn't mean them. I love you guys!
