...and it has nothing to do with this blog entry, but I just thought I'd comment.

I've been on the apartment hunt ever since I got my last promotion/raise. Unfortunately, I can't afford much. There's a bachelor apt that's definitely affordable, and I'll look at it, but...I have no idea how I'm going to fit a double bed, couch, desk, and all this other stuff in there if it's as small as I think it is.

There's one that I'm coveting. I even have dreams about it (when I'm not dreaming about a huge scorpion in my house). Hardwood floors, high ceilings, two bedrooms...and if I had another $200/month, I could probably swing it. My biggest problem right now is that one of my jobs is for a non-profit agency, and it's contract work...so I'm out of work for usually four months out of the year. So I have to, like, save and stuff.

I desperately wish I was one of those authors who could bring in that kind of money through donations for the eserials, but I honestly don't have the time to get out and promote it like I probably should--not when you consider that only a tiny fraction of readers ever actually support serials with $$ or even reviews. It's remarkable to me that so few of the readers of my novels actually translates to serial readers.

One commissioned cover a month could do it...as could one client a week for house cleaning. If I knew anyone looking for a roommate, that would be doable too, but then we'd have to be able to tolerate one another for extended periods of time, and there are few people I can manage to do that with.

And so I have to be sad that I can't get the apt I so desperately want. Woe is me.