Archive for Busted Broke

Consolation

In my last year at university I wrote two 5,000 word essays and two 10,000 word essays and then there was all the work associated with my Persian/Farsi language class. One of those 5,000 word essays was on Sufi poetry and the other was a study of a Syrian mystic and an analytical comparison of [...]

The kiss of death that is a degree in the Study of Religion

In keeping with the busted broke theme, I went to the Job Centre today to try to sign on (transatlantic translation: get welfare). It turns out that I can’t sign on because of this interviewer job, but the problem is, of course, that the interviewer job doesn’t pay me enough to live off. Ultimately I [...]

A status update

So… I’m back!
It was inevitable, I suppose, since I am incapable of shutting up; however, this time I am going to use this place to be a little more constructive than the previous maniacal blatherings. But first, a status update.
I graduated last June with a BA in the Study of Religions from the School of [...]

PR people are idiots

I’ve got to get out of that PR firm and soon. Today I told one of the directors, “you can’t click your fingers and think that I’ll jump - it doesn’t work like that.” In retrospect I think it probably does work like that because he does pay the wages. I also told him that [...]

Dear Incredibly Rich Person Who Reads My Website

Hi! How are you? It’s been a while since I addressed you, no? I hope everything’s been grand in the interim. Things have been all over the place with me, but you know that, don’t you..?
Anyway, I’ll cut to the chase, how’d you feel about lending me some money? I know, I know, I’m always [...]

My new, new, new life

You know where I am? In London, sitting in my new room, listening to Yoshimi on my new cheapy stereo and occasionally screaming at my cats to stop scratching the carpets. This house is a slum, my room-mate is a filthy bastard and I am the poorest I have ever been in my life, but [...]

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