A couple days from now, almost all my weekly pay will go to paying off every last bill. After that, I will be broke no more. I haven't been on, so this bears explaining: A little more than a month ago, I moved into a larger apartment with several roommates. With the rent split several ways, my financial difficulties are quickly dissolving. As of Thursday, they should be mostly squared away. At that point, I can start saving up money, and have a good chunk left over each month.

It was quite a leap of faith. At first, it seemed as though I wouldn't have the money to pull the move off. As it turns out, one of my roommates (a previous tenet), was in a similar predicament, and things are turning around for him, too. The other two roomies were a bit of a charity case, but with how personally I knew them, I wouldn't turn them down. One of them recently got a job and will start contributing by the end of this week, and the other is in the middle of a long hiring process, but it looks like he is within days of starting.

We were four guys that were in a bad situation, but by cooperating, we have been able to turn our collectively bad fortunes around. I know them all well enough to agree upon something like this with them. One has a temper, one is needy, one is relatively reclusive, and one is a little creepy (that's me). The A-Team we ain't, but we do have Mario Kart Wii to bring us all together.

Sometimes, it's hectic around here. Our personalities collide, and sometimes conflict arises. At times company comes over, and I feel as though I'm in a den of lions. I'm not without a quiet place to retreat to.

My ultimate goal: To save enough money up to further my education. Having done this, I can dump my nowhere job, and do something with my life that gives me a strong sense of purpose. Also, never having to eat Macaroni and Cheese again would be nice. But I'll eat it from time to time to remind myself of how tough things once were.

Things will be challenging for a while, but I'm not going to pass up on this window of opportunity. And for once, I'm not alone.

Today, I found an ad that said something like this:
"Imagine making 42% less than the person next to you. Now you know what it feels like to be a woman."

I was shocked. Women make less than men? Something must be done about this right away. Therefore, I propose the following list of actions that can be taken to ensure female paycheck equality:
-Establish mandatory quotas for hiring female lumberjacks, landscapers, and construction workers, as these jobs tend to pay better than office jobs, in which the workers are largely sedentary in their duties.
-Abolish maternity leave, as this impacts work hours, and therefore impacts pay.
-Forcibly rewire the female mind, which instinctually seeks different professions than men. One approach is to mandate sex-change operations for all women.
-Found an organization utilizing ad campaigns using half-truths to empower women in the way that only wolf-ugly nature-worshipping man-hating feminists desperate for penis can, while similtaneously installing a persecution complex in them.
-Ignore the condition of Arabian women, who typically have fewer freedoms than what Western societies grant their animals.

Using these simple steps, women can finally be granted the equality they don't realize they have. 

I'm back to my phone being my only stable net connection. Yay.