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 5/23/17

 

I've been at Starbucks for nearly 2 hours and ESO has only DL-ed 4% I was REALLY hoping I could check out the expansion tonight but I can't sit here forever, and I really wanna get some lunch and head back already :/ 

 

Today we had a house meeting. It was very long and informative. They more or less told us that although we can sort of have food in our room (they're being loose about that rule because you know, it feels too much like prison), however, we need to be responsible about it. I'm guessing there have been people in the past who hoarded trash in their room and since we don't have any central air in the building, it gets super hot in the building in the summer. It doesn't take very long before the flies and roaches become an issue. I'm about to pick up some clothes pins and gallon-size freezer bags to seal everything we have (open crackers, for example).

 

Other than that, I learned quite a bit about housing and why a lot of people aren't getting transferred out of here (which was intended to only be a 10-day processing center, not a long-term thing). Not only is the shelter system completely packed to the brim (which we already know - hence why the city is literally putting people up in hotels), it's been increasingly hard finding any landlords willing to take the vast amount of voucher holders (which we also already know), but apparently it has to do specifically with landlords only taking clients with certain criteria that simply don't apply to most voucher holders - like no past evictions, good credit, etc.). Which is fucking stupid because the voucher is specifically for those who have been evicted and if it was a non-payment case, their credit is now shit. So, how does that even work? 

 

I have an appointment with the housing specialist on Thursday, so I should get even more insight this week. But, I gotta say, this is just a shitstorm. None of this makes much sense and any sensible thinking person could clearly see the fuckery at work here and how inefficient this system is. 

 

In other news, I tried this *therapy* app yesterday. It's called 7 Cups. The app basically links you with a trained *listener* depending on what your needs are. It was a total disaster. Totally unprofessional, the guy was blaming all of the issues I've faced by "fucking liberals". I SHIT YOU NOT. WTF is that? I'm not saying it wasn't an interesting encounter but in no way should have that happened. Like, what if you were really in some serious distress? And, you ran into that guy. Like, that could possibly do more harm than good especially when the intention is supposed to be talk therapy. You might as well talk to your cat. 

 

I started blogging a bit on Tumblr on a day-to-day basis, but I don't think I'm going to keep up with it. I mentioned on Tumblr that my follow-up with my caseworker on Sunday was absolutely useless. Every time I run into her I feel like she never has anything useful to say or any answers to my questions. Like, she's a nice lady, there is no question about that, but she's useless, and that's really unfortunate. You'd think, depending on our specific concerns, she would further seek some answers to our questions before our next meet-up, but that's never the case. I know I should be grateful, but man, I feel like ever turn is a disappointment and that's been a regulate occurrence for a long while now. Am I hard to please? I expect so much from other people.