Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
i won’t get fat. i won’t get fat… »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I found out yesterday I was granted UI benefits. Then, today, I got my first deposit. For those following, that means I can now eat. Unfortunately, that means I need self-control.
It’ll be impossible to go back to my usual dietary schedule—waiting until 5p to eat anything and avoiding nutrition entirely. Now I’m twenty feet from the refrigerator the whole day.
I’ll be sticking to the “diet” I outlined earlier. Essentially, I’ll be drinking water to keep from snacking like those guys that end up with a man-shaped hole cut into their bedroom walls.
No one wants that.
Combined with some trips to the gym, I should be able to maintain a stuck-in-a-soul-sucking-cube figure. Oh. And it’s back to bike season. That could help too.
Still, with my days being open will take some getting used to. I’ve always had mind-numbing tasks or meetings to work around and that I almost always forgot a lunch to control my ingestion habits.
This could be trouble.
hitch in the plan »
Monday, April 20th, 2009
My job hunt has now expanded to Chicago or… well… anywhere, I guess, because my desperation has suddenly blossomed. Why you ask? Even after the fame of my burgeoning photography wealth is only just settling (and non-existent)?
I’ve been kicked out of the capitalist system and am awash in socialist frustration. My UI may be denied. This, obviously, was an unexpected blow to the spleen.
The next course of action is appeal. According to the notice, I can do this online. Golden, I’m there watching terrible television on Hulu anyway. But no. The log-in is disabled so now I have to call.
This is why universal health care will be ignored by 85% of everyone. There’s just not enough incentive in a free service to take on the tedium of government-sponsored services.
No one would want to waste their time on such things if rates for useful health care were reasonable. There would be incentive to have a job that pays for most of it too. Which brings me back to jobs…
I would love one. ::sigh::
Yes, that’s Mussolini, who was technically a Fascist leader. Still, the vast majority of the US doesn’t know the difference.