Welcome to reality
So it begins. I can't afford temporary health insurance because I have a $290 interst payment on my $11,000 bank loan. Starting in December, I've got a $230/month payment for the next 12 years (followed by $130 a month for 10 more after that) on a ludicrious amount ($34,000) of student loans. And those are the ones in my name, not counting the parents' loans, which I also volunteered to assist in repaying.

I have no job and no job prospects, because apparently publications don't list jobs for writers in the classifieds. I just have to shoot off applications to the places I'd like to work and hope they're hiring. GREEEAT. Yeah, I know I'm employable, but it's really not inspiring when the classifieds have something to offer in every field but yours. (With the exclusion of high-level editorial and management, for which I am not qualified.) I don't even know where to begin. My one promising lead vanished in a piff of smoke with a lingering "neener-neener," and now I'm stuck figuring out where to look next.

I'm sure I'll get a job eventually, let's just hope I don't get injured in the meanwhile.