In the beginning…

In the beginning…

Well, this is the first “actual” post on this blog, so I guess it entails talking about my current circumstances. What a story to start off on too!

First and foremost, I have been attending college for the past 2 years, acquiring quite the hefty debt with the Ontario Student Loan people, so far I owe about 14,000$. In itself, that is a pretty intense amount to owe anyone at any one point in time. Without going into a lengthy rant, I always thought going to school was like paying the government and corporations in surplus work value once I graduate… I don’t see why I pay for it. Invest in your people, and they will in turn invest in you.

I was taking Television and New Media Production in college, until the second semester of this year. The TV industry is soon going to capsize under the weight of technology. You see, the TV industry used to be a high end technological service… unfortunately, the people running the industry are naturally apt to exploiting the status quo, rather then digging for bigger and better ways to do things, and so companies who are exploring these ways to deliver content to the user in different and creative ways are soon going to overtake it. That is why I dropped the program in year 2 second semester.

I have no regrets about it either, I learned a lot about myself while I was here, and more importantly, I learned a lot about how to put together a production professionally. This learning experience is something I’m going to carry throughout my life, and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to put the skills to good use.

Not only have I learned a lot about myself from my time within the College walls, but I also met a ton of new people, whom in turn also helped me learn a lot more about myself. For example, I used to be the most trusting person… Not anymore. xD

The most notable of stories amongst many that helped with that development involves a girl I was “seeing” for about a month or so. . . The other night, Loyalist College had its last official pub night of the year, and of course I was there. I left with a friend, to go chill at her place and smoke some bongs. While we were chillin’, I get a call from this girl asking if she can grab some weed from me…

Basically I tell her, no, I’m not home, sorry. After hanging up, I go back to just chillin’ and whatever… So I leave her house around 2am, and I start walking home from this girls place… On the way back, I call up my roommates to ask them to keep the door open for me (or something along those lines, I was pretty drunk), only to be surprised by what would be my bed to lay in for the next couple days.

When my roommates, Jalessa, answers the phone, she’s like

“Tyrone, did you tell Tasha to come here?” Right off the bat, I know I told her I wasn’t home so I was like

“No, I told her I wasn’t home.”

“Well, she was here with these three dudes. They just walked into the house, me and Amber were in our rooms, and I heard something so I went to check, and there they were. The one guy had your change jar in his hand.”

At this point, I’m thinking ‘What a bunch of idiots, so drunk they couldn’t tell I said I wasn’t home.’

“Tyrone, how much money was in your change jar?” I thought about it for a second, and recalled the moment I left before the bar. There was a stack of bills equalling between 120-150$ standing vertically inside of the jar, and a pile of 60$ or so sitting horizontally on top of the vertical stack. I had taken the top horizontal stack, leaving the bottom vertical one.

“There should be between 120-150$ in there or so, why?”

“Tyrone, there’s only 20$ in there.”

At that exact moment I started freaking out… see, here’s the thing… This is April, my lease is up this month for where I’m living, and I’m moving back to Cornwall come May 1st. Now, I’m going to debrief you about my monetary situation…

This is hardly enough to be comfortable.

Inner Power is what I named my Savings account, and Curb Your Enthusiasm is what I named my checking account. The Safety Cushion is my Mutual Fund investments (sweet, currently I’m up .05%!).

Now that you can plainly see the world I’m facing monetarily, understand that I need a place within a few weeks, and I need to pay first and last months rent. If I’m looking at 2 roommates, that’s a 3 bedroom place. Both my sister and I have been looking for a place on kijiji and most 3 bedrooms are about 750$ a month. That would require 500$ from me on May 1st. That dips my amount to 189$, and that’s the minimum I might have to pay.

On top of this, I’ve got a cell phone which needs 20$ a month, making that 169$ very soon. I’ve got to purchase some kind of sustenance between now and then as well, as I barely have any food to eat for the month… 100$!

To be fair, I have a job for the rest of the month, but I get 2 shifts a week, so it’s not much supplementation. Ultimately, I’m sure I’ll be able to get by, but I was much more well prepared for any adverse circumstances only a week ago.

This is my current situation, what I’m looking at in terms of money and drama… enjoy it or not, I’ll holla atcha later! LOL

Oh, and here’s a sweet melody for you to groove to today:

Cheers,

Tyrone Lamoureux