Thursday, January 24, 2008

Reason number 4,612πrˆ2 that I have to move out, like yesterday.

Yeah, I might still live at home a little bit. Let me tell you a story. There once was a beautiful little girl. Me.
[b-mullet.jpg]
I was a driven child, mostly due to fear of terrible retribution which might or might not have included grounding me from my Pocket Rocker™

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/7000s-plus/fp8700-pocket-rocker-mib.jpg
or old school NES if I brought home anything less than an A to my school teaching parents. I grew up to repeatedly take the SAT, have nightmares about the ACT science section and busy myself with every AP class imaginable at my high school, all the while supplementing my CV with activities like Teen Volunteers, Mu Alpha Theta and National Forensics League. I did everything I was supposed to do, including dropping $1000million on application fees and even a couple of college visits. And then, the culmination of all of that hard work and unreasonable expectations was upon me. It was time to choose a college. It was then, after 18 years of grooming me for this expected achievement, that my parents let me in on a little secret. They were simply unprepared to pay for me to go to a college that cost $800,000 plus shipping and handling or any college really. The nerve. Therefore, as I attended this little school

http://www.aladcoservices.com/images/client_smith_college_.jpg

(be sure to calculate this year's tuition, it is, most likely, more than your salary, ok, fine, just mine) I racked up more student loans than the GNP of most central African nations.

What is the moral of this tale? Because my student loan lenders (including the US Department of Education) fuck me in the ass daily, and not in the way I like, I still live with my 'rents while I save up. I would also like to blame George Bush, either of them really, the state of the US economy, the unreasonableness of private college tuition and my unwavering inability to accept employment that nudges me above the poverty level (I have a big heart boobs).

I was about to tell you the moral of this amazing story. So, tonight, I arrive home after a grueling day of potentially hiring and firing employees at random because I don't quite understand our new HR software, to a totally unappealing smell in the kitchen. It appears that my mother, in all of her culinary wisdom, had prepared a dinner of frozen chicken breasts stewed in a crockpot, covered with Prego pasta sauce. She was preparing boil in bag Minute rice as an accompaniament as well as canned peas. I would have included a picture, but it actually looked like tantalizing Indian food. But it was not. Not at all.

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufccc/UFCC2005/silentauctionimages/crockpot.JPG + http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/economy/pictures/chicken.jpg + http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0005ZUBT0.01-A3CDPEGSIQM61V._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg+ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cfford/101minuterice.gif + http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=100223&rendTypeId=4 =

I looked for, but couldn't find an image of Gremlin puke.

Let me know if you have any leads on places where poor ex-students can live safely or boxes or extra cash.

9 comments:

JHC said...

My dog ate my sandwich a few weeks ago.
That's all I got.
Sorry, Bee.

Michael5000 said...

I burned through my savings and went $34,000 in the hole to get a one-year teaching degree from the Very Best Teaching School in the Northwest. What I learned was, I hate teaching high school.

I make the last payment in October.

G said...

GodDAMNIT Blythe, move to NYC!!

P.S. You're cute.

JulieGong said...

When you find this safe haven... fill me in. Thanks!

Colleen said...

want to come be our wacky roommate? i know i have made baton rouge look very appealing.
also, despite not having college loans to pay off (well fiance will when done w/grad school), we are broke-ass-broke. i thought that would change when leaving the money-sucking nyc.

G said...

You know what? Why not move somewhere like Austin, TX* or Asheville, NC**--liberal oases and cool places. Both have tons of music, and the latter is near my family! They'll take care of you and my mother will help heal your OK-induced psychoses.

Baton Rouge sounds sorta interesting, too, though I really know nothing about it...

*No. 2 Best Big City in "Best Places to Live" by Money magazine in 2006
**one of "The 50 Most Alive Places To Be" (Modern Maturity); one of "America's Top 25 Arts Destinations" (AmericanStyle magazine); the "Happiest City for Women" (Self magazine); one of the top seven places to live in the U.S. by Frommer's Cities Ranked and Rated 2007; #23 of 200 metro areas for business and careers (Forbes); and the best place to live in the country (Relocate-America). Trust me, it's pretty cool. And a hell of a lot cheaper than NYC.

John said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
John said...

Am I the only one who thinks chicken breasts covered in a marinara sauce in a crock-pot doesn't sound too bad? Maybe I'm just a fool for a crock-pot dish.

On the other hand, canned peas are the devil's work.

Michael5000 said...

Baton Rouge? BATON ROUGE?? You gotta be kidding me! That's one of the nastiest places in the country!

Um, unless any of Blythe's wonderful readers happen to, you know, hail from there. In which case I'm sure my experience of your fine town has been highly atypical.