Okay, here's the lowdown.

Basically, I had found a new apartment a couple months ago.

On top of that I got a job delivering pizzas. It's actually a low-stress situation that I happen to be good at and make a decent amount of money on.

However, that's not why I haven't been updating.

See, about a week ago, I kind of had to move . . . A-FUCKING-GAIN . . . So that's five times in four months. Anyway, it's basically due to my roommate scheduling in another sub-leaser since he thought I was only staying two months (even though I never said it was going to be for two months). So, not to be a jackass, I relinquished my position as sub-leaser and moved to a friend of my former roommate's house.

So the deal for this new new new new new place was that if I helped him with his English, I could sublease here for 250 a month (still a bit more than what I was previously paying but it's still cheap). So that hell is over.

Then, Tuesday night, my fifth new roommate wants me to help SOMEBODY ELSE move since apparently he can't schedule worth shit; so he asked me to help him out. I agreed since he helped me find another goddamn place to live. I said it was fine because I work at night and so I'd have time during the day, especially since he said it was only going to be one hour and I could catch some Zs after that before heading to work six hours later. Turns out one hour means six hours in the hell I'm living in right now, where natural laws are disobeyed only at my expense. So, instead of valuable sleep time, I was helping another fucker move for a quarter day. FOR FREE.

Okay, it's 4:30pm, that done, only a had a few hours of work ahead of me before snooze heaven, I could fucking deal with that.

What I hadn't counted on was that the closing shift guy just HAPPENED to call in and say he couldn't work. 'Cause he had the shits. No, I'm not kidding. I had to work from 5 pm to 3 am with no sleep from the previous day because this dude had a bad bowl problem. Fucking great.

Okay, finally I get home, my new new new new new home. I fall onto the queen sized bed with the floral pattern sheets I was forced get because my roommate didn't want my pizzaria stank on it or something I guess, my roommate goes into my bathroom since there's only one shower (Who builds a damn house with two bathrooms but only one with a shower? People who fucking hate me and somehow knew I was going to be here, that's who), he flushes the toilet . . .

AND THE DAMN PLACE FLOODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a plumber snake out the pot (for the small fee of 122 dollars. I guess it's a miracle I'm only paying half of it, since if this were a normal Hipper Reed day I'd be paying all of it and a damn kidney doctors would later find out to be cancerous).

But now my Lucky Five Roommate doesn't trust me as much. He initially suggested I should find a new new new new new new place (yeah, way ahead of you there Fate) and then telling me I shouldn't put anything in the toilet. Not even toilet paper? Yeup. Toss those shit stained wipes in the trash next to the smegging pot so I can get a full, wholesome whiff of my own fecal matter. Then he blames me for the damn problem (because hey it's my toilet, so it's my fault. And if ancient plumbing can't handle a few dead bodies I must have killed since only a murderer gets this kind of karma, I guess somehow it means . . . . Fuck Hipper in the shit stained ass.)  Oh, and now we've switched bathrooms. And he wants me to pay a 100 dollar deposit just to ensure I keep my room clean. I don't know how a crumb or dirt stain can cause a room to spontaneously combust but I'm willing to bet it'll happen. After I pay that 100 dollar deposit of course.

Add on top of that I still have car issues to settle (it's got over 300,00 miles, needs constant maintenance, and guess what I use it for? Delivering pies. That's wonderful TLC), managers younger than me who think I'm some kind of inept dumbass (because I can't tell them what I'm really thinking while my jaws are grinding my teeth into smiles), and customers who, for whatever sound and valid reason, stiff me because hey that delivery fee must go to cover the drive and gas, right?

Well it would in a normal world. I live in Hipper Reed world, where God forgets his covenant of man and floods houses with heavenly toilet water, and where the only job offered to me is one where I'm paid 2.20 per delivery and the rest in tips. Taxed tips.

So yeah, been kind of busy with things. That's why there's been no art updates. I'll try and keep my journal updated. I'm working on scripts though and other things art related. Just haven't post anything here yet.

Feel free to laugh at the above, by the way. I certainly have. Really, I've come LONG past the point of depression and out the other side of delusional comedy.

Seriously, I'm a fucking joke.



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