Well, I am moved into a little room in a guest house near the university here in Minneapolis. Things at my sister's suddenly altered and won't be working out anymore: she's still cool. but her boyfriend decided at some point that anything in the house that he doesn't know where it is, I must have stolen or deliberately thrown away. His evidence for this consisted of pointing out that I had "taken without asking" several items that my sister had said when I came she had plenty of and I should feel free to use; and that on a day when I helped him clean out the kitchen I threw out items that were broken or otherwise unusable. This leads him to conclude that I must have stolen or deliberately thrown out his kitchen mallet, and deliberately thrown out his grandmother's recipes, and he won't believe otherwise.
So now, since I can't look at the guy without wishing that I had stolen his damn mallet so that I could smash his face in with it, I won't be staying there any longer. Oh, it's true, I could just say some neutral thing like "It won't happen again" and since I didn't actually do these things it wouldn't require any change of behavior on my part, but then it would be the fun of waiting to see if he freaks out and imagines some new slight to yell at me about, and not having any influence over it. Plus it's him I have to spend most of the time with at the house.
The guest house I'm at is nice enough, it's actually similar to staying at my sister's but cleaner and better decorated, and the room is a bit smaller than the basement was. I'm arranged to be here 2 weeks since that's how long I absolutely HAVE to stay in Minnesota because of the play I'm in -- we only have one show, and no understudy, and it would ruin the production if I dropped out now so I will not do that. And while I have bit of money stocked up, I'm still spending around $200 a week here for the place and for food (and that's carefully rationed food, on my part) and my income is not that much at this moment; and yet this is about as good a price as I think I would find anywhere for a similar setup. So this cannot be long maintained. I need to think of something I can do -- my big "live in India" plan would take several more months to enact and I don't know that I'll have the required savings in place for the plane ticket by then, if this keeps up.
I might have a little (but just a little) money coming in soon, since I wrote a screenplay for my cousin. I don't know if he'll use it or not, but I was promised at least a small amount of money just for writing it. He bought the rights to some book and has been having trouble getting a script based on it that's any good (and admittedly, the book is extremely ill suited to being made into a film, the way it's written; and it's not a wonderful book in the first place, though it's not awful.) Thing is he's kind of broke too, and I apparently wrote the script WAAAAYYYY faster than he expected, so not sure how long it will be till that money comes through.
So now, since I can't look at the guy without wishing that I had stolen his damn mallet so that I could smash his face in with it, I won't be staying there any longer. Oh, it's true, I could just say some neutral thing like "It won't happen again" and since I didn't actually do these things it wouldn't require any change of behavior on my part, but then it would be the fun of waiting to see if he freaks out and imagines some new slight to yell at me about, and not having any influence over it. Plus it's him I have to spend most of the time with at the house.
The guest house I'm at is nice enough, it's actually similar to staying at my sister's but cleaner and better decorated, and the room is a bit smaller than the basement was. I'm arranged to be here 2 weeks since that's how long I absolutely HAVE to stay in Minnesota because of the play I'm in -- we only have one show, and no understudy, and it would ruin the production if I dropped out now so I will not do that. And while I have bit of money stocked up, I'm still spending around $200 a week here for the place and for food (and that's carefully rationed food, on my part) and my income is not that much at this moment; and yet this is about as good a price as I think I would find anywhere for a similar setup. So this cannot be long maintained. I need to think of something I can do -- my big "live in India" plan would take several more months to enact and I don't know that I'll have the required savings in place for the plane ticket by then, if this keeps up.
I might have a little (but just a little) money coming in soon, since I wrote a screenplay for my cousin. I don't know if he'll use it or not, but I was promised at least a small amount of money just for writing it. He bought the rights to some book and has been having trouble getting a script based on it that's any good (and admittedly, the book is extremely ill suited to being made into a film, the way it's written; and it's not a wonderful book in the first place, though it's not awful.) Thing is he's kind of broke too, and I apparently wrote the script WAAAAYYYY faster than he expected, so not sure how long it will be till that money comes through.