My Life in the Here and Now
I don’t want to alarm anyone out there, but I’m unemployed. I graduated college just this spring but haven’t been able to find a real job yet. I tell, so far this hasn’t been too bad a deal. I’m living back home and it’s after Labor Day and summer is over for everyone but me. Normally this time of year, I’d be back at school, but I don’t have a school to go back to. So I haven’t stopped sleeping in late or watching daytime TV. It’s been a pretty sweet life so far.
I have been looking for a job though. The main problem I am finding with that is that I live in Michigan, where unemployment is so bad that no one here in the entire state has a job. I have been looking at moving to Chicago where there are jobs. At least I see a bunch of people dressed in suits walking around downtown Chicago during the day, so I assume they do something for a living.
I also noticed that if you are walking around in Chicago wearing a suit, a heck of a lot of homeless people will ask you for money. I also noticed that none of these homeless people were white, they were all black or Hispanic. A lot of people would find a piece of information like that very telling about our society. I do too. It means that if I move to Chicago, there is statistically no chance that I will wind up homeless. It’s comforting to know.
I like visiting Chicago because I can stay in cheap motel rooms run by south Asians and watch HBO. I don’t have HBO at home so I go to places that advertise free HBO. A lot of places like motels and coffee shops advertise that they have free wi-fi but I don’t like brining my computer into coffee shops that have free wi-fi that often because I only have a desktop computer and it’s always so much trouble to carry all the equipment over there and then hook up all the cords. I don’t even have a flat screen monitor; I’m still using a CRT.
