Benefits Exhausted
Oct. 29th, 2013 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfSo I guess I'm not going down to Internet Librarian this year. I was kinda thinking I might go down for one day today. But the one day registration is $260 and I'm feeling broke. My "Exhaustion of Benefits" letter came yesterday. This is simultaneously depressing and freeing. Freeing in that I won't *have* to apply to at least 3 jobs a week and depressing that I will now be dependent on Russell. It was one thing to let him support me through grad school, that upped our family earning potential (and actual) by quite a bit. Supporting me now is just necessity. I realized that being supported make me feel like I'm not grown up. Kurt says that means I should get in touch with the young and horny part of that. LOL I love my husbands. But I hate not having any income of my own.
One interesting note about all this is that it makes me want to go out and make myself sick eating carbs. I need to find a rebellion that doesn't make me feel awful in the process. Or is that the point of such things. Since I don't suffer hangovers I don't know if people who drink as a rebellion do it to suffer too. So it is probably just as well that I'm not going to Monterey, home of Rosine's mile high cakes, because I'm pretty sure I'd have a slice of German chocolate cake for lunch.
I looked at the Santa Clara Valley volunteer website yesterday and even most of the interesting volunteer opportunities require commuting to Palo Alto. Bah. There is one that is organizing a photo collection for a disability charity that I may actually go for. One day a week might be do-able. And I love organizing people's photo collection to make them useful. I just have to learn Lightroom. That wound like a win-win, eh?
One interesting note about all this is that it makes me want to go out and make myself sick eating carbs. I need to find a rebellion that doesn't make me feel awful in the process. Or is that the point of such things. Since I don't suffer hangovers I don't know if people who drink as a rebellion do it to suffer too. So it is probably just as well that I'm not going to Monterey, home of Rosine's mile high cakes, because I'm pretty sure I'd have a slice of German chocolate cake for lunch.
I looked at the Santa Clara Valley volunteer website yesterday and even most of the interesting volunteer opportunities require commuting to Palo Alto. Bah. There is one that is organizing a photo collection for a disability charity that I may actually go for. One day a week might be do-able. And I love organizing people's photo collection to make them useful. I just have to learn Lightroom. That wound like a win-win, eh?
