My shoulder hurts.

It looks like, because I like to make poor decisions (good decisions), I will end up going more than 100,000 in debt to go to law school.

Whee. So if I seem a little more resentful than usual, that's why.

There was a rally/protest/thingie on campus the other day. It was about the high cost of higher education. Massachusetts is one of the only states in the nation without a public or semi public law school. (Rhode Island is another, Vermont is another). Here in New England, we like our education liberal, well-reputed, and private.

I'm at this moment lucky to only be about 18,000 in debt from my first go-round. Which means that I'm better off than most of the people I started undergrad with. I had a very fortuitous combination of circumstances- briefly wealthy parents, a hefty scholarship, and a nice early expulsion.

So I'm going to be signing loans, and getting cosigners (if my parents can- they may not be able to. My sister defaulted on about 60,000 of student loans. Go Sis!) for an amount of money I can't even picture. I'll spend most on tuition, and the rest on living expenses. In America's most expensive housing market, you can't get anally raped for less than 1,025 a month.

I actually may have to start renting out my vagina as an ocean view condo (great neighbors! Cozy charm!) It'll actually be illegal, because there's no real second means of egress, but I could put a little exit sign in there, and a fire escape, and just learn how to do splits and spend a lot of time at the beach. If I stand on my head, there's a skylight. But I'm not putting in wall to wall carpeting. That's where I draw the line. Too tacky.

I broke a hundred posts.

My hundredth post was titled "Show Me Your Pussy"

Which, I think, sums up the entire purpose of this blog. Stranger's vaginas, and what should and shouldn't be done in and around them.

Temple, by the way, sucked.

A lot.

A LOT.

It was like....

I can't even describe.

Sucked.

It is hard not to hate people.

Especially when looking at real estate ads in Boston.

It's hard not to think that all landlords are selfish, price-gouging carpetbaggers, when looking at real estate ads in Boston.

It's not that everyone wants to live in a few good neighborhoods, or wants specific amenities, like dishwasher or screen porch or covered parking. It's that people want a place to live.

And landlords weep that it's not their fault rents are obscene. Their houses were expensive. Their property taxes are expensive. Their mortgages are expensive. Labor is expensive to fix things. Materials are expensive to build things.

Yeah, right. You know why things are expensive? One day, many years ago, some asshole price gouging evil motherfucker decided "Hey! All these fucking college students don't know shit! And they can't help but need a place to live! They can't move! Approximatel 73% of all colleges in the world are in the immediate Boston Area. I'll charge $2000 for a two bedroom!"

And all his friends did it, too. And the goverment caught on. And they decided that if rents were higher, even though the housing stock was the same unimproved crap that it always was, they'd value the property higher, and charge higher taxes. And all the assholes who sold their houses and bought new ones sold for as high a price as they could, and took the biggest mortgage they could...all to gouge people some more. And all the rents got higher. And the houses more expensive. So things became more expensive, because things are made by people who live in houses.

I'm going to be fucking homeless, because I've picked a law school in an expensive urban area. I'll be in roommate hell for the rest of my life. With loud televisions and strangers fucking. For the rest of my life. Because people are fucking selfish. And want the most money they can get. And because my roommate is selfish. I can't fucking go to law school and live here- I can barely get enough quiet to do my studying for undergrad.

"Are you going to use that computer all night?"

Yeah, I'll use MY computer all night. Are you going to keep bringing men home in the middle of the night, and watching TV at extreme volume, and filling the fridge with such a bulk of items you won't eat that the door doesn't close properly and my milk goes sour?

Landlords should be publicly humiliated for what they've done. Flippers and condoizers and snob zoners and fucking real estate speculators should be hung. Anyone who puts a 200 dollar appliance into an apartment and expects to get 750 extra in rent for it, for the rest of their lives, should be fucking trash compacted into a tight little ball.

Fuck it. Fuck life. You just think that things will be O.K, and then you realize nothing ever will. Because people want so much to grab as much as possible of anything they could even possibly have a right to, that the whole world is fucked up.

All I want is evidence that I can live somewhere within five miles of school, without four strangers.