re: #82 Sherlock Hound

That’s nice to hear. ///// The barbarians are us.

No, I’m in the same boat—SSI, public housing, Medicaid. I type here while pretending to be a useful person, ignoring that I’m 53 and have never had a full-time job and perhaps never will. I have so many friends and colleagues in that situation. I wish I had better words for your wife. Or for us all.

I’m mostly sheltered from this shit, adjuncting while looking after my Dad rent-free at his house. And most of my IRA either got turned into cash 10 years ago or got turned into my car after the fucking head-gasket blew on the Nissan. So I’ll get to watch mostly from the sidelines as we enter a Japan-like recession that never ends. But the only way I’ve been able to afford health insurance is through ACA, and I don’t have the luxury of paying for it up front and then getting a a tax credit 15 months later. So I too didn’t fall asleep until roughly 4 in the morning, and now I get to try to run two classes on minimal shut-eye.