I'm not kidding when I say I'm sleeping on an airbued on the floor next to my parents in a house for overprivileged college-age deadbeats. They're both stone deaf so the sound of multiple stoned-out couples fucking doesn't bother them much, but I'm pretty much losing it. It's a basic question of how much I can actually take before the costs of going the hell somewhere else stop outweighing the sheer crushing depression of trying to exist like this. A weekly rental around here is like $300 though, and most places require a minimum 2-4 weeks. I have a pretty long damn list of things I could do with $600 when this is all over. Also, I have absofuckinglutely no idea when that will be, which is kind of the worst part.
On the flipside, well, nobody has seen fit to give me any keys. It's a gated community and I've got a passcode to get in, and the thing'll open automatically if you're in a car, but if you happen to be parked on the street you'd better have a key to get out. What I Learned Today: I am no longer able to pull myself up over a six foot wall. THAT'S something I'll be changing.
In the meantime, all those recurring nightmares I have about being completely trapped in a slightly hostile suburban community? What a time to have those.
Finally got out through sheer luck of somebody not closing the gate properly, so now it's back to the long process of getting somebody to take the few large, untossable things that were left in that place before we get fined for them. Phone battery ran out early because it's my only connection to basically anything so I went back for the charger that I left behind in my mad rush to get away from the hump party. I don't have a house key either but that's okay because nobody ever locks the d-oh hey somebody locked the door.
These douches aren't too friendly to me, so I'm pretty much transient for the rest of the day. FORTUNATELY! I had the very good sense to leave another charger at work, and to keep the magnetic part of my badge in my wallet. So I'm hanging out here, letting my lifeline fill back up, leeching off Wi-fi a bit and generally hiding from the world and kind of shirking my duties for a half hour or so. And kind of blogging about my entirely self-inflicted inconveniences.
I'm gonna rename this thread to something more appropriate. Be right back!