The Not Happy Thread

Sadness has taken me. Darkness consumes me. *there's no fit emoji for this despair*

 

Right?

 

I hate the seasons around here. I grew up in a more northerly clime, where the sentence "Fall is here," along with the retiring of the linen trousers and white shoes after Labor Day made sense, but here we are on September 10th with the temps at 36c (~97f) and a thunderstorm rolling in. It'll be mid-October before I retire my "summer" wardrobe.

 

Just these, not full-on "white shoes" shoes

 

Oh my goodness, @Shenanigator, you really had me worried!

But yes. Change it back, @matwoolf!

 

Six weeks of vacation, lounging around the house like an orangutan half-baked on some moderately overripe fruit and writing jack shit. Now I've got to get up in five and a half hours for the first day of the semester and my brain is jumping around inside my skull liked a coked-up toddler "Daddy daddy, I've got a STORY idea!!! Oh, and another one too, and how about if you explain the first one this way, I've got a scene and an overall synopsis you've just got to hear!!!"

Benadryl time, I'll use the Red Bull override in the morning.

Just like Elvis used to.

 

Wasn't one of his disciples Cheddarham?

 

Cheeses of Nazareth

 

I've had about four months off, and I've spent them doing sweet FA. I'm counting down the days until I go back to uni and my life starts again. Six weeks feels like such a short holiday now. I don't know how I'll cope when I start work. Hopefully next summer I can find something to do.

 

Hang on in until you're about 28 then maybe a double shift down the cake factory? You can springboard a novel from the briefest of encounters, probably take a notebook to the factory.
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That's my short break, I get three months in the winter.

Sounds like a tacky gift shop for the religious tourists.

 

I tried, but I never managed to find a job, fill out a CV, and apply. I feel like such a failure, TBH, especially coming off the back of my disastrous first year at uni.

 

Finding work can be hard, it doesn't make you a failure. The only reason I've been living off of writing for the past 3 years is because I haven't been able to find a long term job. I may be a failure in a lot of ways, but not when it comes down to circumstance and other peoples biases.

 

I'm not in your town, though.

 

Between 15 to 20 including fast food with two or three poutine shacks that pop up during the summer. All of them relatively small and most of them family owned.

 

We've also got a population of less than 10,000 people.