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Hey there, all...
Last night I went to go take my friend's van for a test drive. Supposedly, it was for sale, for really cheap, and he was a friend, and the van was in good working order. So, great, I'll have my own vehicle.
His mother decided not to sell it...at least, not to let me make payments on it. There's also a funny thing with the transmission seal leaking and the gas gauge is permanently stuck on E. She had a bad experience with someone else making payments on it, then the van died or some such and the fellow didn't want to any more. Understandable, I guess, but it puts me in a pretty pickle.
My job at the Bookshop has changed drastically as well. They're pulling Internet Sales almost completely, and I'm taking over most of J's (the coworker who decided to tend cattle instead of shelve books) sections. And, because he really let them fall apart before he left, I'm faced with the monumental task of culling and re-organizing Religion, Occult (New Age, damnit!), Philosophy, Eastern Spirituality, Cookbooks, Home and Garden and Horticulture. Later, when those are a bit better, I'm taking over Poetry, too.
The good news to all this is that I'm much, much more secure in my job, I can increase my hours to full-time and I just got a pretty big raise. Hurrah for me!
But...the schedule is going to shift pretty drastically over the next two weeks, and I *need* a reliable way to get there. Since I'm basically an 'essential' worker now, there's no way I can risk not being there. And I'd like to be able to go home.
So, while I'm learning how to drive and searching frantically for a car I can swing in the next month or so, I'm also looking at the possibility of getting a place closer to town so I can at least walk to work if I can't get there by car. This is not going to be an easy decision to make when I actually have to make it, and it's not going to be an easy conversation with the roommate when I have it. There's *one* way this can all work out, and I'll have to talk to a couple of people about the possibilities. But everything would happen fast.
All writing's ground to a halt because I haven't been able to get home for a bit, and things are so topsy-turvy right now. So, I've also had to give up on NaNoWriMo for this year. :( There's always next year, I suppose.
Now, we're all dealing with workplace fallout, as well as quite a bit of personal fallout. There's more re-arranging to come, too, and I think that's the worst part. Still, I'm optimistic. On the other side of this, everything's better.
Last night I went to go take my friend's van for a test drive. Supposedly, it was for sale, for really cheap, and he was a friend, and the van was in good working order. So, great, I'll have my own vehicle.
His mother decided not to sell it...at least, not to let me make payments on it. There's also a funny thing with the transmission seal leaking and the gas gauge is permanently stuck on E. She had a bad experience with someone else making payments on it, then the van died or some such and the fellow didn't want to any more. Understandable, I guess, but it puts me in a pretty pickle.
My job at the Bookshop has changed drastically as well. They're pulling Internet Sales almost completely, and I'm taking over most of J's (the coworker who decided to tend cattle instead of shelve books) sections. And, because he really let them fall apart before he left, I'm faced with the monumental task of culling and re-organizing Religion, Occult (New Age, damnit!), Philosophy, Eastern Spirituality, Cookbooks, Home and Garden and Horticulture. Later, when those are a bit better, I'm taking over Poetry, too.
The good news to all this is that I'm much, much more secure in my job, I can increase my hours to full-time and I just got a pretty big raise. Hurrah for me!
But...the schedule is going to shift pretty drastically over the next two weeks, and I *need* a reliable way to get there. Since I'm basically an 'essential' worker now, there's no way I can risk not being there. And I'd like to be able to go home.
So, while I'm learning how to drive and searching frantically for a car I can swing in the next month or so, I'm also looking at the possibility of getting a place closer to town so I can at least walk to work if I can't get there by car. This is not going to be an easy decision to make when I actually have to make it, and it's not going to be an easy conversation with the roommate when I have it. There's *one* way this can all work out, and I'll have to talk to a couple of people about the possibilities. But everything would happen fast.
All writing's ground to a halt because I haven't been able to get home for a bit, and things are so topsy-turvy right now. So, I've also had to give up on NaNoWriMo for this year. :( There's always next year, I suppose.
Now, we're all dealing with workplace fallout, as well as quite a bit of personal fallout. There's more re-arranging to come, too, and I think that's the worst part. Still, I'm optimistic. On the other side of this, everything's better.
