Things on the Brain: Zombies (and Other Stuff)
I’ve been thinking about two things a lot lately.
Number one is I need to get another job. Preferably two more.
In early October I decided to drop my classes at Seattle Central–where I was attending until I transfer to an in-state university due to money–to take care of my mother and earn money for tuition.
Right now I’m just delivering newspapers which, quite frankly, pays shit. I have limited work experience because I was focusing on school and my family before, but now I need a few part-time jobs. The next couple weeks will consist of me applying everywhere that happens to be hiring.
I’m hoping to get one with medical, dental, and optical insurance because I definitely need all three. The fact that I could get really sick at any moment and be totally screwed without insurance scares the hell out of me. Who thought universal health care was a bad idea again?
I’ve also been thinking about zombie attacks and how to escape when one inevitably happens. I have a mental list of things to keep in mind when zombies attack (though a lot of points could go for Maoist rebels or something as well as zombies). Perhaps I’ll make how to guide out of it soon.
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Good luck on finding a job. I need those insurances as well, but my job only offers them to full time employees. I am going to go full time in a few months though. I want to wait until the holidays are over (because they work people to death during the holidays)
I’ve found a few jobs that offer benefits with part-time work, luckily. I’m hoping I get one of them.
I’ve decided I’d rather have two part-time jobs rather than one full-time. It will add to my list of past employers in the future and I don’t want to be worked to death by one employer during the holiday season. I’d like to enjoy my holidays because just the atmosphere alone surrounding winter holidays is enough to make me happy. :)
I have a zombie attack plan of action! OMG, I thought I was far too wacked out for anyone else to do that. See, I have this completely irrantional fear of zombies that can strike just randomly when I’m out shopping or something. I have so many contingency plans in my head it’s unreal but they always seem to feature a screwdriver somewhere along the way. Crazy.
Dude, not just you!
I watch horror films and spend the entire time figuring out how exactly that would never happen to me. If I made a scary movie, it’d be five minutes long.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003 version, if I made it:
I also have elaborate plans against an epidemic of people infected with rage/whatever and other such things. I watch and read too much dystopian films and fiction. I have a ridiculous fear of the world turning into a total disaster instead of just half a disaster.
Perhaps I need to create a series of blogs on how to prepare for such instances.
Good luck with the job and mom situation. I totally know how you feel. I took time off school to work and care for my grandmother last year. Not the easiest thing in life.
The Republicans mainly thing universal health care is a bad idea. God forbid everyone got what they needed in life.
I know what you mean about planning an escape route in case of a zombie attack. Good thing they’re slow, huh?
Good luck with job searching. I’m going through it now, a pain really. And the bank account is steadily draining.
Hmmm…zombie attacks, eh?
Might I suggest this survival guide:
amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Prote…
LOL @ the Texas Chainsaw Massacre comment you wrote, V. Seriously, if that happened to me and the girl said we were going to die and that we were going the wrong way, I would turn the fuck around!
Good luck with finding a job. I have little work experience and so I’d like to delay real world for as long as possible.
I still do not understand why Americans tend to think universal health insurance is a bad thing. I mean, wow, how explicitly evil can a person be? Like, I’m sure those millions of poor families living just in this country feel the same way about private health care as you do, you mansion-living, Bentley-driving, ugh. I’m okay.
I’m training to be a ninja one day just in case anything happens. Wouldn’t that be awesome though?
If there’s a Zombie attack I’m going to barricade my home. Then put Shaun of the Dead on TV so I sufficiently creep myself out. Perhaps with a knife by my side as well… to chop off their heads. Effective, I’m sure! :P
That’d be, like, unforgivable because then people wouldn’t have to work for anything. We all know that all of those Republicans born into wealthy families never had anything handed to them. That’d be ridiculous, clearly.
Dude, I am so adding this to my wishlist. I need this book.
There’s no excuse not to do so! Other than they were very, very high. Which is probably rule #1 of what not to do when you’re in a horror movie.
I know some people who think that rich people should have to pay for their health care and there’s two reasons why that’s a fucking terrible idea:
I think the main reason why health care will never be completely available to everyone is money. Doctors won’t be able to make six figures easy if true universal health care is enacted. Cry me a river. Become a doctor if you want to take care of patients, not just because you want to be superrich.
The one thing I can see is that med school is really effing expensive here along with all other universities. After universal health care we need free or massively reduced tuition fees. People can’t get an education if they can’t afford it. The government giving you US$1,500 will not make a dent in your US$45,000 per year tuition and that’s not even including room, board, books, transportation, and other costs.
Ninjas are awesome. :D I’d make an awesome ninja and one ninja could clearly pwn hundreds of zombies.
What you need, my dear, is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer-esque axe. One of the huge ones where in one easy slice, multiple zombies are dead. And they’re shiny. :D
If you end up writing a zombie guide, I’ll be sure to read it =P
Have you read the Zombie Survival Guide (book)?
Don’t.
Nightmares for weeks. Weeks, I tell you. It has all these stories about ‘real’ zombies and I can’t tell whether they’re true or supposed to be funny to people who aren’t terrified of zombies.
So I’d read your guide, but only if you promise not to do that. And I’ll have to read it on a day when I know I’m not going to be left alone for at least a week afterwards. I may also have to be armed with a screwdriver. And a machete. And a 5.56 semi-automatic rifle. I also need to be upstairs (and no suggesting that zombies can go upstairs!!!!) and enough food to last several years. Oh, and a two-way transmitter.
I’ll probably still have nightmares.