Relocating and crappy work stuff

[jain]

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.

Comments

[batshua]

Wow, you're moving to cheese world?

Cool.

Well, keep us posted. And keep in touch.

Have fun there and good luck.

And you damn well better visit The Mawr occasionally. Preferably when I'm there.

[jain]

I'm moving to cheese world and I don't eat cheese. Yet another reason I'm feeling ambivalent about the move. Still, it really is for the best. I will most definitely keep in touch--well, as much as I ever do--though visiting might be more difficult. We'll see.

[batshua]

I wouldn't eat their cheese, either.

I don't expect you to visit all the time. Maybe once every couple of years or somesuch. Perhaps.

[dine.livejournal.com]

good luck on the relocation - your reasons for moving make perfect sense, and you'll be thankful next year when enrolling in school.

I've got my fingers crossed things go smoothly for you - congrats on seizing a great-sounding opportunity!

[jain]

Thank you very much. I really appreciate the encouragement.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel even slightly better, I only live a few miles north of you. And Milwaukee is a wonderful city, particularly around the university areas--it had a booming hippie culture back in the day, and it's still got the alternative feel. I've spent some of the best days of my life there.

[jain]

Thanks. It's especially nice to know that Milwaukee's as you describe it; my only previous experience with the mid-west had been visiting distant relatives living on various farms and visiting my ex-girlfriend's family in Indianapolis, and it's a relief to learn that Milwaukee doesn't resemble those places to any great extent.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on where you are, just like every other city, but around the university it's liberal and kind of arty. I have a lot of relatives and friends in the area, and my cousin says it's pretty gay-friendly.