- The update I've been meaning to write.
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neverbeuseless
- June 15th, 21:10
Finances are tight, but I finally found a job selling pride beads for a local lesbian at prides on the weekend, turns out this summer's going to be even more gay-centric then I first imagined. I started yesterday, but only for an hour, as a kind of test run. In that hour I made 20 bucks. We're traveling next weekend, but Jodi hasn't decided which pride we're going to yet. I met her though one of the guys I work with at the Community Center. We keep 35% of what we sell. Danielle, another person who sells with Jodi, made $300 this weekend, and Jodi said that the lowest paid person this weekend made $235. It's a good gig, and it's only on the weekends. I'm going to be cutting it close with rent for July, but assuming I'm not a horrible sales person, I should be able to make it. I also am connected with Manpower, a temp agency, about doing random pick up work they may have available. Nothing from them yet, but we'll see.
I'm doing great in my internships, and I love them both. The Resource Center on campus is much more of a macro approach and they have me doing research for them. Working on things like grants, queer-friendly companies, preferred name policies, and a little grunt work helping with their budget and other small office work. At the Community Center, I'm working one on one with the youth, and they're starting to accept me into the fold. I've connected really well with a few particular youth, and it's great to spend time with them and seeing them comfortable and happy. They've seen some really rough situations, and while I knew that and I've seen it, it's a lot more raw here. It's not as hard to work with them, knowing these things and how hard they have had it, as I thought it would be, just much more grateful. Grateful for the opportunity to have a positive impact on their lives, grateful to have the opportunity to have them influence mine in such a great way, grateful for my own privileged and positive experiences. I come home from interning for five and a half hours with them and I feel energized. It reminds me of working at the youth center back home, and how much I loved that job and those kids.
Socially, I'm doing well. Colin has been a life saver on more then one occasion, as well as introducing me to some amazing people, and Amanda has introduced me to some good people and good times. I have made a few really solid friendships, one of which with my roommate Mackenzie, and a bunch of good acquaintances. I was pleasantly surprised at Pride how many people I ran into that I knew, and who recognized me and came up to say hello. There's even a lady, but not in a super serious monogamous way. She's feisty and is probably trouble, but she's funny, smart as hell, and beautiful to boot. We'll see where it goes.
Taylor and Noah Gauthier and Alex came down for pride. Alex disappeared for most of the weekend, but it was really good to see Taylor in particular. Really nice to see a familiar face.
I have a new phone, her name is Molly. She's pretty amazing. That's about all I think.
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