Brief life update: Landlord problem sorted (for now, at least). My support system is awesome. I believe you have all been contacted about repayment, but if I missed anybody, let me know. I have not bothered to tell my roommates this. I hope they are experiencing unbearable amounts of stress. The Useless Narcissist did eventually cough up his share, but the (Probably Soon-To-Be-Ex-)Wife has given me nothing yet. They can stew. One of the NPOs I work with threw a birthday party for a friend of a board member back in February. I ran it for them, as I often do. I'm good at being an attractive, friendly person who knows where all the extra chairs are. I rather like running these parties. They're full of interesting people that I will almost definitely never see again, so it doesn't much matter what I say to them. The birthday girl was 80, and a semi-retired "spiritual counselor" -- apparently, she was where the priests and rabbis and imams went when they needed to tal
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I'm not done being pissed yet, but I did promise Patreon that I would post about some of the less horrible stuff in my life. One of those things is that I've realized I need some sort of brain screen saver to think about, so I can avoid ruminating on how much I want to shake my roommates until money comes rattling out, while I'm stuck on a bus and can't do anything about it. I've heard really nice things about Gravity Falls , both in that it's a well done series, and in that it's just generally a funny happy-ending show. I found an email address that hadn't gotten its free month of Hulu yet, and anyone else who subscribes to that service is welcome to join me in a TwoSeven watch party. TwoSeven is free to join, and you only need one subscriber (me) in the room to activate the subscription features, but if you'd like to support them as well, they're on Patreon . I prefer them to screen sharing on Discord, partly because it works better, and pa
***UPDATE*** Problem temporarily sorted. Thanks to all who offered help/loans. You will be contacted about repayment as soon as my grant comes in or one or more roommates pull their head out. Leaving the rat photo up because cuteness. ***** tl;dr: Rent ($2300) is late. Landlord is demanding a check TODAY. I have my share but roommates are ghosting/ignoring all efforts to get them to pay. I have a grant coming but it has not disbursed yet, and I cannot cover. I can pay back loans as soon as I extort money from others. Funds to paypal.me/UnsolicitedAdvice or https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2448728627609600559&created=1643930446 Long version: I share an apartment with three other people. I think. Two of them are or possibly were a married couple. Hubby took off at the end of last month and given that he came to get his stuff with someone he introduced as his boyfriend, he may not be coming back. Wife is having a psych crisis and it is becoming apparent that, at least at the moment, sh