The Opposite of the High Life

It's fun being broke and having to live in shitholes, isn't it? I had one place where there was no hot water for a year and a half because the slum lord wouldn't get the boiler fixed. In my current place (overpriced mobile home) the hot water heater (the access to which was in the back of my son's closet as it turns out) blew out and spread water across three rooms. There's probably $20,000 in damages (which is about what I owe on this dump) and we don't dare turn on the water except to flush the toilet because otherwise it will start leaking again. Good times!

Student Loan Debt A Millstone

Yep...I'm in school less than half time this semester so I've had to start paying off my student loans until I go back full time. $200 dollars a month, Kiddies, and my take home pay is only around $1400 a month. Yet I can't qualify for food stamps because my gross pay is $2200 a month. I've been eating a lot of fucking macaroni and cheese and cold cuts of late.