TESTING link:
Works when signed into The Wayback machine:
https://archive.org/details/h792004cat/page/n17/mode/2upIt seems to work without me being signed into archive.org as well.
The particular volume it links to was being scribbled in at the very same building I am dwelling in now [2023], not next door to the library, like in 2014, but down the same road toward the Great Atlantic Ocean - the placed I lived in in 2004 after graduating from the State University, Rutgers, and unable to find any work, ending up homeless and on welfare.
Am I
COMING AROUND FULL CIRCLE? I am not the same shot-out former student, but have matured emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually.
Back then I escaped the circumstances by going into a group home. Back then the rent was subsidized, so I did not mind the "slummy" aspect of it as much. Now that I have "social security disability," the landlord takes far too much rent, so I am looking to escape again, nearly twenty years later. I do not want any part of any group homes, but am determined, instead, to find a room closer to where my mother landed.
I am back in the same boat, but it is a totally different trip. Some people get the rooms for little, like I was paying for an entire apartment for years on "Rental Assistance." Now, for one tiny room, where I use bathroom down hall and have no access to a kitchen or refrigeration, I am paying 3 times what i had been paying for a full apartment with my own bath-tub and kitchen.
So, no - this is not sustainable, especially when I consider the cost of storing my library, notebooks, and computer network each month, since I am not comfortable "moving my stuff" into a room which leads directly to HELL.
The sticky situation now is living in the place anyway, knowing it is a rip-off and possibly staying yet another month simply because I can find nowhere else to go. I'm trapped!