More and More Debt, But Less Despair
Hello from here -- spiritually I'm very much on the move. This blog has become a yearly check-in rather than a monthly check-in. There's other areas of my life that have taken priority (namely physical health as opposed to financial health...) and I'm happy to report some improvement there, though that won't be reflected in these numbers at all. When I started this blog years and years ago (with the subtitle "May this Be Short-Lived"), I had imagined that I would be able to continue working with the dogged intensity I was at the time, and I could have never imagined how run-away expensive housing would become. (Or, maybe I could have imagined it, but I didn't, and here we are.) Turns out, what I imagined to be the "rock bottom" of my financial health (fresh out of grad school, unable to find work in my field, etc.) was by no means the how low I'd find myself really. I'm assessing the financial damage from the last several years, turn
