jeudi 5 juillet 2007

What did I Get Myself Into?

So I'm going back to my School City to do an internship.
I'll be staying at the house I'll be renting for the school year.
At first I thought going back was such a good idea. I'd be living by myself, downtown, going wherever I wanted, meeting up with friends after work where I'll be getting experience and my name in print.
Instead, I'm looking at two extra months where I'll have absolutely no income and full-blown living expenses.

I'll have to buy groceries, set up Internet AND phone AND cable (which, you'll see, will take me weeks) and pay all those bills, get furniture for the house, and every time I go out I'll have to pay for everything. This kind of lifestyle means needing a reliable source of income but I'll have to work a full-time job without pay, a.k.a. non-paid internship.

I was thinking of getting a part-time job for weekends but as I've found out jobs aren't all that easy to come by.
So what am I doing, so excited to be getting away from my parents where meals, Internet, cable, and local phones (at least even having a phone in my room)...is free?
Not to mention I have all the essentials here, like Kleenex, for one thing, lots of my clothes.

In School City, it'd be okay to not go out if I had Internet/TV/phone/newspaper subscription but I don't so I have to go out or I'd be literally staring at four blank walls. But I can't go out because I don't have money. I'm just hoping my internship doesn't drain so much of my energy and time that I can't go to look for a job.

This really sucks, I'm sorry but it does. I'm going to cry. For these last few days at home, I've had my wireless-enabled laptop beside me just surfing away while the TV is blasting right in front of me and the phone is at my ear.

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