Well, this week was fucking annoying. I was determined to get help for rent without bugging my dad, since he said he wasn't going to help with the rent anymore. It didn't occur to me until this past Sunday to look up "rent assistance". I found a city-run place called the Neighborhood Place. I had a job interview on Monday morning, then went to the Neighborhood Place that serves my area. One of their criteria was that you had to work 250 hours in the previous four months, which for me was June, July, August, and September. If it had included May, I might have qualified, but I fell short. While the woman I talked to was sympathetic to my medical issues, being out of work for medical reasons didn't even matter. She referred me to a ministry that does rent assistance, Ministries United of South Central Louisville (MUSCL), that could possibly help me because of my medical issues. They were only open from 9am until noon Monday through Thursday, and their voice mail said that they would only reply to messages left during that time. I called probably fifteen to twenty times each of the next three days, and all but one of those times I got a busy signal. The one time it rang, which was 9:06am on Thursday morning, it just kept ringing, and I probably gave up around the ninth or tenth ring. I got the impression that they weren't really that busy, more like they must have kept the phone off the hook. I did end up finding another local ministry that might help with rent, but they wouldn't be able to help until the following week, which would've been too late.
I got my unemployment check directly deposited on Thursday, which was just under $300, but it was enough to mean that I only needed $200 more to get the rent and water paid. My roommate's dad , gave us the $200. My mom gave me some additional money for groceries and my psychiatrist appointment.
All this shit reminds me of the "Legend of the Rent" song that Jack Black's character in "School Of Rock" came up with. The next time I need rent assistance, I'll try to do it well before the rent is due, instead of cutting it so close.
I didn't get the job that I interviewed for on Monday, but I did get an assignment at another place starting this Monday, and it actually sounds better than the job I interviewed for. I could've started on Wednesday, if it weren't for having to run around looking for rent assistance.
So, I mentioned having a psychiatrist visit on Tuesday. I've been taking twenty milligrams of Trintellix for the past few months. I couldn't afford to get it at a pharmacy, so I've been living on samples. Everything sucks so bad these days that the twenty milligrams of Trintellix isn't helping. I'm going to try to see about getting on a cheaper medication.
