Learn from the mistakes of others

the past few days have been very unpleasant.

well, ok. they sucked. fucking sucked.

my social security benefit was cancelled. and nobody figured on telling me about it.

as a consequence, my bank account went into the negative. and i get charged fees for each transaction that goes red. aarrggh!

and, i couldn't pay the isp as i should have - so they cut me off.

and, and, well. and things just began spiralling.

my total income, per fortnight, is less than aud$380. so when i get charged fees like a grown up, i get really crushed. [bank charges $30 per overdrawn transaction - times that a few times and ... well, you see my difficulty.]

so. monday was "find out what the fuck happened day"1
tuesday was "find out what could be done day"2
today was "get angry, yell a bit. yell some more. go out and fix it day"3

now, seeing as i'm not a real person yet [no job = not person] i had to do all the work for myself, and all the thinking, and i had to walk back and forwards across the city. several times. each day. but, i finally got somewhere.

i only had to wait a few hours at the bank. and again at cantthink centrelink. coz, of course, my time is not important. [will not scream about the job interviews i've missed coz i didn't have email and that was how i chose to have them contact me]

anyway, the bank - once reminded that i've been with them for several decades now, had a little think and decided to charge me a single $30 fee instead of 4x$30 - which helped.

and clink figured that i might have been right, and they might have been stupid-uncaring-unthinking-beaurocrats wrong to fail to process a form i dutifully returned to them some weeks ago. i have an income again.

and my ex-wife paid the isp in the meantime, so we're getting our email again. [i was able to pay her back today]

now. what did i want a job for again ...

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1 was supposed to be "go check out law firms day"
2 was expecting to spend tuesday checking job ads and catching up with a friend in the government
3 was supposed to be "get one more essay done day"