Once in flight school I was laconic.

Very near to financial panic again, at the moment. Megan and I are putting job apps in left and right, but at the rate the bills are piling up, we're going to face at least a round of late fees before we can manage to catch up. I hate asking more flush friends for loans, but at this point that's about what I'm down to. As a fundraising measure, I'm looking into making an e-book/self-published book that would anthologize my short fiction -- some sort of incentive for people to drop change in my virtual hat. I've also thought about writing on commission for anyone who had anything to spare. I don't know if I can make any of that work, but the narrower my options get, the more motivated I am to try anything and everything simultaneously.

This is why I don't talk about my daily life much around here. As happy as I am with the life I'm living, it's hard to talk about my off-line existence without talking about the money I don't have. And I don't have more and more of it all the time.