Dispossessing
Back in January I was laid off from my full-time job at a newspaper, and since I couldn’t pay for my home any more, I moved out and currently I’m staying with my mom. She’s very kind to me.
It’s time to get rid of a bunch of possessions. I’m starting with two 7-day ebay auctions, for a label/postage printer, and a 10 lb. digital scale. Anyone need these items? Here they are (click on photo to access auction):
There will be more soon, including artwork.
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I’ve been heartbroken about losing my yard, trees, plants. I’ve cried a bunch of times over it.
Here’s my last photo of a harvest several months ago. After that, I also dug up a bunch of sweet potatoes, but this is the last big diverse harvest, with papaya, carambola, moringa pods, sugar apple (that tree suddenly and mysteriously died recently), purslane, holy basil, neem, and tangelos.
Goodbye, beloved flora friends.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
What was their excuse to lay you off? “Oh, I’m sorry, we are making employment cuts because we want to make more money……..I mean we’re losing money”. Well, I hope you can find another job, until then, good luck.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Thank you! It’s not that they’re losing money, but their rate of profit has fallen steeply, as has been happening to most newspapers. So that affects the stock price, which is way more important than the well-being of workers. The paper I worked for laid off several people.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
And people still believe that it matters who is in the white house