Woke up.
Got evicted because I'm subletting and my landlady has decided not to renew her lease after the rent was increased.
Had wheeties.
Got rejected for a minimum wage job at SEGA which I was screened for on the basis, if you can believe it, 'the calibre of applicants has been very high during this process'.
Played some Hearthstone to relax a bit from these two blows before trying to find somewhere new to live, apply for another job, and do my college work which I paid for using yet another Student Loan.
Lost every one of the ten matches I played.
...OK...bad day...
My student loan is currently on hold because they require some more information from me. This information I've given to them twice already; once over the phone, once in writing. Currently dealing with their complaints department about it.
Said complaints department, for fun, decided yesterday afternoon to ring me up as a curtsy call to tell me that they were aware of my complaint.
Not that they had or were going to do anything about it. Not that they needed me to do anything about it. Just that were aware of it.
This would've been fine, except for the fact that at the time I was dead asleep because my sleep pattern is currently fucked and I'm sleeping during the day, and then couldn't get back to sleep afterwards.
Bastards.
That phone call was yesterday.
So right now it's around 6pm.
- In a month I'll have no where to live and to find new accommodation I need to find one of the few leasers who will rent to someone on housing benefit.
- In a week I'll have next to no food budget as I use what little money I have to pay for a deposit on new accommodation [I never did actually have one where I'm currently living].
I was struggling to deal yesterday with the prospect of doing my college work. Now...
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I did have one crazy idea on how to resolve this; rent a storage container.
They cost, on a weekly basis, for the same size room, about half what I pay in rent.
Gain 24 hour access, somewhere close a gym for the shower and toilet, do my college work at the college where I'm studying, buy a cooler and few bags of ice each week that cost a pound each for food storage, and construct a nest inside the container.
I've seen pictures of people who've built actual honest to gods mansions out of storage containers, water proofed, wired with electrics and piped with plumbing. After all, a storage container is just a metal box and a house is just a concrete box.
The issue is with this is twofold.
- Firstly, most places don't have 24 hour access to the compounds they're built on. The best place I found does [and is sammitched between a 24 hour gym and an Iceland store], but would need me to be a customer for eight weeks before they'd give it to me. Doable maybe, but still...
- Secondly, my housing benefits are paid for a property. My job seekers isn't, so one hundred and forty every two weeks, forty on rent every week, works out at sixty every two weeks which is slightly less than what I have now with free access to amenities [bathroom, water, kitchen, etc.].
- Plus there's the obvious issue of what you're allowed to store there and the owners might take issue with a person living in one of their boxes.
I've tried living in a hostel [instant access, pay by the day accommodation] and it's not something I ever want to repeat, which is why I was looking into this to begin with.
Finding another room to rent might be easier.
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A few days ago my biggest issue was taking care of my college work before the weekend, with a side of chasing up results from interviews and my student loan.
Now I'm virtually homeless and starving is the only way to fix it.
Fucking hate my life, but hating it isn't going to fix anything, so I had best go get on with it.
