So, I'm moving to Milwaukee. This despite the fact that I hate winter, I hate the mid-west, and I don't know anyone in the city. However, the University of Wisconsin has a great Gay and Lesbian Studies program--headed by Jeffrey Merrick!--and it's eminently affordable if I first establish residency by living there for a year. My mom's going to drive me out there mid-August, which is when she's dropping my sister off at college in Iowa. And then I have to find an apartment and a job and I've never lived on my own or this far away from my family and I'm going to die.
As a corollary to this: the place I tutor has decided to replace me with a new English teacher for my morning classes, since I'm going to be gone for the last two weeks of the summer session and the switch would have to happen eventually. So my job now consists of tutoring two and a half hours a week at $11/h. Which, okay, I'm living at home (for the next three weeks, anyway), and I don't have any expenses worth speaking of, but still. I was using that money to pay off my insanely large student loans and save up for Wisconsin. I'm going to start work next week cleaning my neighbor's garage (ugh!), but that's about all I can do; there's no way I can find a job when I'm moving in less than a month.
Basically, I'm trying to be an adult for the first time in my life (yes, at the age of 24; I suck), and I can't imagine how this is going to work out, but it pretty much has to. So it will. I hope.
As a corollary to this: the place I tutor has decided to replace me with a new English teacher for my morning classes, since I'm going to be gone for the last two weeks of the summer session and the switch would have to happen eventually. So my job now consists of tutoring two and a half hours a week at $11/h. Which, okay, I'm living at home (for the next three weeks, anyway), and I don't have any expenses worth speaking of, but still. I was using that money to pay off my insanely large student loans and save up for Wisconsin. I'm going to start work next week cleaning my neighbor's garage (ugh!), but that's about all I can do; there's no way I can find a job when I'm moving in less than a month.
Basically, I'm trying to be an adult for the first time in my life (yes, at the age of 24; I suck), and I can't imagine how this is going to work out, but it pretty much has to. So it will. I hope.
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