Thank You

[usullusa]

Thank you to everybody who has responded. Every last comment I've gotten has brightened what have otherwise been a bleak few days. I never expected such an outpouring from people. When I first saw my inbox and browsed through the responses I was so grateful I cried.

I have been actively applying to job after job lately and have picked up a couple of one-time gigs in the meantime. I'll feel a lot better once I've secured a job, but I am less panicked and hopeless now than I was a few days ago.

Thank you especially for everybody's emotional support. I don't talk about it a lot or I downplay it, but I've been in a really bad place for the last few months. Not only is my financial situation difficult and am I taking my family's rejection really hard, but my parents' pain, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, is devastating. It's the kindness of people like you that keeps me going in spite of everything.

Comments

[blogofchampions.livejournal.com]

I posted your plight in the self-promotion thread at Feministe today. Hopefully a few more people could donate.

[usullusa]

Thank you for the signal boost.

Just a quick correction though: my parents are still paying for my education, they're just leaving the rest up to me. Still difficult on a full-time student schedule, but quite a bit less dire.

[blogofchampions.livejournal.com]

Augh, of course, I switched it around. Ah well, same basic sort of deal.