Hi.
I’m a little tired this evening, well…alot tired. I’ve been up late every night this week working on completing end of the semester projects, and studying for finals. It’s hard struggling to stay awake to study after the kids go to bed when all I want to do is fall down hard myself.
I have to admit studying isn’t all I was doing though…(OMG, I think I’m gonna embarrass myself)
I’ve been up the last few nights watching full episodes of shows on abc.go.com. I can’t resist because we don’t have cable! The only piece of real technology we have in my house is this laptop and my USB. That’s it. Our microwave oven doesn’t even use micro waves anymore, it’s so old. It waves our food. Period. We still watch TV on our heavy boxed model complete with rabbit ears that if moved the right way (hanging off the back of the television just right…) we can get Telemundo and CBS. So when I discovered beautiful crystal clear HD Streaming Video on the laptop, I was hooked. I’ve been up late watching shows I don’t even like! Dancing With The Stars? Don’t really care either way about ‘em, but this last week I must have watched the whole season! My husband asked me, “What the heck are you watching?” When I told him, he just shook his head and got up to reposition the antenna.
To be serious for a moment…
To Mr. Singleton, case worker at my local Food Stamp office:
You’d better pray that the two paychecks that keep you and your family out of poverty don’t disappear like ours did. You’d better pray you won’t need to apply for Food Stamps to keep your family fed while you look for another job at comparative pay. And if you do find your self, for the sake of your children’s empty tummies, on a 60-minute line in a dingy third floor office with a folder stuffed full with an encyclopedia’s worth of personal documents only to be sent away to come the next day for an appointment which you’ll be on time for, but your case worker will be 2-hours late. You’d better pray they won’t promise emergency food stamps in a ridiculously long five days, but it’ll really be eight. You’d better pray that when they promise your Stamps will be wired to on the 5th of every month, that it’ll be there the 5th of every month and not the 11th, the 14th, or not at all.
Mr. Singleton, I wanna hate you so bad, but I can’t. I know you are overwhelmed with hundreds of cases like my family a week. But damn….
Anyway,
I want to talk about the day I had visiting Bed-Stuy’s Brownstone Books (on Lewis Avenue) but not being able to buy groceries today jumped to the top of my list. My next post will be in a few hours, and then you’ll hear all about this wonderful store. In the meantime :www.brownstonebooks.com, check it out.
Hmmm….
