The Bright Side

To balance out all the negativity I’ve been wallowing in, I’m going to list the positives, which are:

• Jones now leaves the house regularly during the day, so I’ve been walking around topless in my comfy jim jam pants and the only person to get embarrassed around here is the dude in the backyard cleaning up all the trees they cut down. So fuck you, underwire!  Damn, it’s comfy up in here.
   
• I have unlimited internets.  Not really, but I just don’t give a shit about the download cap because it’s not my internets and I won’t be the one yelled at. So I’ve been torrenting like crazy. 
   
• I may be unable to borrow from my local library thanks to Jones, but I did discover that Willoughby council is one of the few councils in Sydney still untainted for me in terms of borrowing rights, so I signed up to Chatswood library, which isn’t that far away, and they have 3 weeks borrowing on DVDs!  Plus they have piano sheet music and lots of other stuff I could fill my time with when I’m avoiding looking for jobs.  Oh yeah, and I borrowed Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Satre. Nothing like a highly technical existentialist treatise to cheer the jobless up.
   
• When I’m about to go broke, I panic and spend money.  It makes no sense, but this time, right before I went broke, I bought a bunch of shit I actually need during my time of financial destitution  – I bought a weekly Zone 3 ticket, so I can use the ferry on Saturday to go to Cockatoo Island and visit Wollongong next week; 6 months worth of the pill (really didn’t need to buy that much, but hey, I feel more secure now that when I’m sitting at home alone watching porn, I won’t get pregnant);  new shoes and trousers, which is good because my old shoes and trousers fell apart about 10 minutes after the purchase was made;  lots and lots of toilet paper – for camping, when it turned out that Laurence had already bought some and the campground supplied it anyway, but seeing as Jones is just as broke as me, it’s nice to have my own supply hidden away.    

So I have everything I need, except for vegetables and fruit to avoid scurvy, a place to live and a job.  Whatever Trevor.