Huzzah for completely unmedicated anxiety! Apparently it is possible to be in a happier place yet still slowly fall apart as stress becomes too much to bear. Certainly no fault of Jim's, of course - it's the standard assortment of trying to get this car stuff done without being slapped with all sorts of fines, and trying to find a job, and ( Read more... )

Thank you, Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land. Your dedication to making moving into this state with my crappy-but-economical automobile as absurdly, frustratingly difficult as possible is truly a testament to what one can achieve in politics if they're completely batshit insane. I've finally managed to procure myself some Michigan no- ( Read more... )

The Target interview was yesterday, and it...actually went decently well. I think. I'm a terrible judge of these things but, um, the fact that I never broke into barely contained hysterical panic tells me this was more of a success than many of my older interviews in Montana. So, at the very least, even if I don't get the job, this tells me that I ( Read more... )

Interaction with people has been slowly but surely becoming easier for me since the move, and now it'll probably be even easier to find a job wherein I have to regularly deal with people. As whenever I'm dealing with someone particularly unpleasant, even horrible, I can tell myself, "Hey, Jesse, at least you're not wallowing in excrement ( Read more... )

By this point, I was intending to be in the middle of a very mildly successful job hunt. And while I have managed to fill out a few applications online, I haven't been able to devote as much time to that as I'd like. (So, um....yaaaaaaaay for easily obtainable fallbacks!) Long story short, insurance looks to be one of the more unpleasant parts of ( Read more... )

...well, so much for my intentions of providing daily updates on this trek. Sitting in cars for 12+ hours per day is more physically exhausting than I ever would've thought. I mean, I'm spectacularly lazy. Most of my spare time is spent sitting. Came as a huge shock to me. Probably didn't help that I was making the trip with a total bitch who ( Read more... )

Well, day one of my journey has come to an end. 650 miles, crossing a third of Montana and all of North Dakota. And, um...there's not much to say about it. The first 20 miles of North Dakota were beautiful, with some really cool rock formations and amazing views. The rest of it is a flat, farmy hellhole - like Montana, but a bit more densely ( Read more... )

At this exact moment next week, I'll be in Fargo, North Dakota, having covered the first and most tedious leg of this trip. Exciting and terrifying and all that. How far into the trip will I last before I comically crack and turn into a pathetic, sputtering mess? Stay tuned to find out! :D ( Read more... )

Well, once again I'd like to thank everyone for the massive outcropping of emotional support. (And this time I can sort of mean it.) I'm doing....betterish. It helps to focus myself on the potentially wonderful change on the horizon. (The date's officially official now, even. My existence in Montana will come to an end on April 5 ( Read more... )

So, I have to be serious for a moment here. For the past week and a half, a stray cat and her newborn kittens have been living under our porch. I've been providing food and water for them, and just generally trying to make everything okay for them. I'm not much of a pet person, but I am a major animal lover, so it's just something I pretty much had ( Read more... )