Jinked

I do. It’s pretty much all I’ve been doing lately. My life as a commuter. It’s weird. A degrading yet entitling kind of feeling. I spend two hours and thirty minutes on two trains (South Shore and CTA) every single weekday. It was pretty rotten at first, and in the beginning I thought about quitting, or at the very least closing my eyes and wishing [...]

Many know about the news, but it’s worth mentioning again. Late last week I was offered a front-end, designing position with a small company in Chicago. I start in two weeks, and while I haven’t worked a single day there yet, I believe it is going to be a place in which I can learn, thrive, and most of all, be creative. Also, turnover at [...]

This morning I jolted awake to the alarm on my phone at 7:00 in the morning. This was to get myself showered, dressed, fed, and ready to catch the 9:08 train in order to make an 11:30 interview with a creative staffing agency in Chicago. I needed four and a half hours to get to an 11:30 appointment. How do people commute? But as Ben [...]

In the last week I’ve been looking at places to apply in Northwest Indiana and Chicago (primarily around Millennium Station for convenience, but I may find myself branching out soon). I have an interview with Creative Circle in downtown Chicago tomorrow for job placement, which means I will be on the 9:08 train in Ogden Dunes. My interview isn’t until 11:30, so I can wander [...]

Finding work is important, because it means that I will have money to pay my bills and buy myself food and keep my heat above 62, but I will talk about the dating first since more people have asked about that. The whole financial struggle is old news. I’ll get to it at the end. So, dating. The magical world of dating total strangers. Men [...]