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started Adderall again this week. looking back im starting to notice how unhinged my last couple posts seem. Sorry about that.

[there are worse things than getting stuck in academia]

Well look what the cat dragged in.
Glad things are going good twid, there are worse things than getting stuck in academia.

Like what?   

Unemployment. I hate looking for jobs

can relate. 

i mean, do they even  do anything? Cuz if not, i'll get paid to Star trek cosplay all day.

so turns out I'm still unemployed, and i'm an asshole for even implying that my family could help me out, given that i'm the primary caretaker for my mom and ive had to sell my car just to keep the household running while everyone else fails to rise to the occasion. Such a fucking prick, me.

 welp, due to a lack of spots at Ye Olde Birthday entertainer factory, i am in fact, NOT going to be a party entertainer. Guess its back to selling my personal belongings



PS the HR lady was named Eris. I cant make this shit up.

so bad news is, unemployment has sidestepped having to pay me in a way so dumb it would overload my brain if i had to elaborate, so it looks like i'm gonna need to build up a nest egg before i can fly the coop. Goods news is i've been tentatively hired by a children's entertainment company to do birthday entertainment. so yeah I'm gonna be a birthday clown.

I love these stories. Its like living in a WH40K prequel fanfic.

i would say that bad things happening to this country is as reliable as the seasons, but with climate change doing what it do....

My mom's conservatorship hearing was this week. They appointed a Guardian ad litum, and I managed to navigate the attendant family drama smelling like roses. Calling it a win.

oh thanks Faust that really good to know, actually.

also also, getting Irish citizenship leads to EU citizenship, which can lead to me moving to anywhere within the EU, which is a plus.

also the immigration process seems like less of a headache. tho compared to how immigration works here, the bar is basically in Hell.

While I wouldn't trade Ireland for the US under any circumstances, Ireland is far from perfect, we have an awful housing shortage that started about 6 years ago and has gotten worse and worse, new home to buy costs are extortionate, and trying to find an over priced place to rent is incredibly difficult.

If you have someone to stay with you'll be fine, but you'll be facing a hard time trying to get anywhere otherwise.

Politically we are more stable, health care is cheaper than the USA but you still generally want to have insurance, there's plenty of work going round, but every country has its problems, just do your research is all I'm saying

well part of the plan is to seek out this Land Grant program I've heard about where they'll give you money to fix up an existing neglected property. so there the option to fix up a place nice enough to live in or flipping it to rent or buy a place for myself. also I'm pretty sure This One Asshole I Hate already got a place in Italy, and i'm not risking being anywhere near that fuck.

I remember when i was younger, whenever i would watch No reservations with Anthony Bourdain, thered sometimes be a scene where he sits down with an American expat and they would talk about the local culture and cuisine etc, and id wonder what would make a person just up and leave their country of origin. Like yeah people immigrate worse countries for better ones, or to escape wars and genocides, but what made all these comfortably middle class people fling themselves all over the globe to get away from America in particular?

I am now 34. anthony bourdain has been dead for several years now, and i no longer wonder. I get it. I completely get it. I get it to such a degree that I have bought what No Reservations was trying to show me about life in other countries. After this last election i don't feel any loyalty to this place, and i realize i haven't for years now. If someone were to call me a patriot I don't know how id feel, but probably offended in a weird way? I have never once seen my government actually solve a problem in my lifetime and i'm beginning to see that i probably never will and so i have decided that this country is no longer my circus and its salvation no longer my monkey.

this is all to say that I have decided that I have decided to move to Ireland sometime next year. Guess i'm just trying to find a place to talk about this that isn't social media. Apologies if this is in the wrong subforum.

anytime you are communicating something to a human being that would otherwise be impossible to express, you are Doing An Art. everything else is frippery.