Rant alert.

Okay, not a rant so much as a ramble.

This afternoon around 2 PM my time I'll be able to pop onto a wired lan, so I can set up the Paypal (my account there still works, I just need to switch the email address on it). I'm also going to put AdSense on this blog.

I really didn't want to have advertising on here, but I'm going to need to do it, even if it only brings in a little money. Emergency Kindness is putting me into a really unstable position. This morning I had to buy a phone card to continue interviewing Janes. I got four hundred minutes, which cost me eighty dollars.

This has cut into my "buffer"--I always try to have at least a hundred dollars in my account.

Now I have thirty dollars.

This really scares me. I haven't been this close to flat broke since I started working sophomore year. It makes me kind of wish Wolfy and I hadn't broken up, because then I could still be working for his brother-in-law. But that was a personal assistant job, and as sweet as Hidenori is, I draw the line at addressing and licking envelopes that contain my ex-boyfriend's wedding invitations. There are just some sacrifices of dignity that I won't take--I mean, come on, this was two months after I left him!

Anyway, since I'm saving to move out of my (extremely conservative) parents' house, all the money I've been spending lately to get this project off the ground scares me. I mean, I know I'm doing the right thing, but I'm totally terrified, especially since I haven't had a callback on any of my job applications yet. I need to make my way out of this house as soon as possible because I'm forbidden to participate in political activism here. My parents highly discourage the exercise of my social conscience, so if I don't get out soon it'll be too late for me to help make a lot of the changes that this country needs.

So...yeah. Going to get the Paypal running so that I can reimburse the Janes and pay the hosting costs of EK, and going to get AdSense to try to bring in what little money I can.

I still have about an hour and half before my next class, so I'm going to do some phone work on those Jane applications now.