spryng | Candy Corn for You

Not much to say. Been in a bit of a funk, finding it very hard to write. I'm at 13k - should have been at 25k today. Gah. Thankfully, it's not NaNo, but I still very much want to have this done before November.

Also, despite how much I loathe admitting this, money is playing a bit into my funk. Doesn't help that I'm making less than I did as a cashier in college three/four years ago, let alone in an office over the past two years. Seriously, wtf? How has minimum wage only been raised $1 over the last four years? Isn't inflation a bit more than that? Gods, this whole shitty economy/jobs while Wall Street makes bank and big businesses make bank while decidedly not hiring has made me go on a number of angry tirades over the last few months. I've worn myself out on them and just keep hitting the "hopeless" button. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm so very glad to have a job at all. Even if it's only seasonal. But I can't help but comparing all this to when things were "better."

Plus seeing how the mortgage industry is just falling apart at the seams. At least, publicly. It had been doing that for quite a while. All that stuff about banks not paying attention to what they sign = so very, very true. Bank of America especially - the number of times we tried to confirm with them whether or not the borrower was working on a loan mod only to not hear anything back from them in time = infinite. We would postpone, of course, and then get chewed out by BofA for postponing, and then a week later they would tell us the borrower was in a mod all that time. So to recap: a bank would yell at us, the trustee, for not holding a sale on a house when we couldn't verify whether or not the home owner was actually working on a solution with the bank (and oftentimes not even aware of the sale of their home), and then turn around and tell us they were indeed in the middle of working on said solution. It was a game of ultimate facepalm every week. And I could go on and on about these sorts of things, but I'm not, because now you can see it in the news twice a week.

Anyway.

Have some candy corn this week. It's like crack.