Unemployment

Between last week and this week I would like to just scream and chuck something at the city of Los Angeles. Come on give a girl a break here!

To begin my fun filled week, I struck out three times with possible job leads. Yep, still sitting on my couch. Hence the greater amount of blogs going on here. Then I decide to be productive and get my annual eye exam. Ohh bad idea. First I have to say no matter what at least my eye sight hasn’t gotten worse but I do find out my lovely former employers cancelled my vision insurance plan. BUT I’ve been paying for it for the past four months. Nice, eh? Instead of my exam being free it cost me $185 which I do not have at the moment.

To redeem the day I decide to go get my passport and student visa photos taken at my local AAA office. An hour later I have four decent photos. Later that night I check my paperwork….um…I need 6 just for the student visa and these 6 photos have to be the oddest size. Obviously not the same size photos used for U.S passports. Ugh. Luckily I can scan the little suckers and resize them.

After I get my photos I run by Target. Keep in mind money is tight right now. I go, buy some groceries because they are cheaper at Target than the grocery store, go to pay for my parking. 1 hour is free there but my photos took an hour so I go to pay my $1.00 for 1 1/2 hr of parking. Wait, what’s this? Ohh West Hollywood raised the price to $1.50 for over an hour. Seriously. To make matters worse, the next day I go to grab the case of Diet coke I bought only to discover it’s not in my trunk. Where is it? Oh, stupid me forgot it on top of the parking ticket pay machine. Insert head beating against the wall here.

To end my super fun week….No unemployment check in the mail. In a month I’ve received one check. Just one. Keep in mind a month of unemployment doesn’t even cover my rent and Cobra payment. I’m drowning! Throw me life preserver please! Did I mention I couldn’t finish my drawing for class? Why you ask? Oh cause it decided to rain here. Yes, the three days a year it rains in LA it decided to do one the exact day I needed to sit outside for hours to draw. Ugh. Keep your fingers crossed that this week goes much better….

It’s been…oh lord…almost a month since I last worked. To be honest at first not working was kind of nice because I was burnt out and I thought well I’ve probably only got a week before I find a job so I’ll get tons of things accomplished. Three weeks later I’m soo bored and quickly going broke. For most they could survive a month or two on unemployment but I have a huge rent payment and cobra insurance payment which takes more than unemployment gives me. Plus I’m trying to save to pay for school so the money is quickly dwindling. This is my first week that I’m starting to fee panic’d. I tried to avoid sending out the “I need a job emails” but resorted to that last week. Most ppl I know didn’t even bother to reply. Bastards. Next we move to facebook and try individual emails to those I sort of keep in contact w/ and mass email to those I never speak to until unemployed. Nice, I know.

But it’s about who you know out here and honestly everyone is too busy to keep up w/ everyone so we all do this shameless act of begging for work. I hate it but I need to work and I need to work NOW. My sanity and rent payment rely on my working. And I’m applying to jobs online but we all know that almost never works but I’m still trying and I”m not being picky either. I’ll take anything that pays. Shameless.

But since I have all this time on my hands I get to post blogs! yeah for the 2.5 readers of this thing. Today’s fun activity was to clean out my dresser drawers and I did donate more to Goodwill plus decided to take 4 address books and make them into one. While doing so I found some pretty funny items. First a crew list from college in which I’m listed as the director and the two heavy hitters from school are my camera assists? Um WTF? I have no idea who made such a list and if it was ever actually carried out. WAIT. ohh it just hit me. This was for my long lost thesis film before it crashed and burned. Thank you D. for pulling out and fucking that all up. Oh well saved me $4k. Second funny item is a list of “clubs” we were going to visit while interns in 2001. Oh man. All but 2 places are gone now and it’s an awful list. All tourist trap places I wouldn’t be caught dead in now. Here we go:
1. Key Club – only exsisting spot left.
2. Tiki Lounge – Wait, this place might still be there.
3. Deep – Nope. Turned into something then burned down
4. Frolic Room – :/
5. The Opium Den – WTF?
6. The Mix – I think this might be The Ivar now
7. Blue – ????
8. Space 6507 – Um…it was on sunset….
9. The Century Club
10. Florentine Gardens – Ok this place we went and can we say GHETTO? Metal detectors. ‘Nuff said.