[stylist] How is Everyone Doing?

[Miss Thea]

I live in Toronto.
I love Toronto, but Toronto doesn't love me.
That is, I can't get subsidized housing here, and the market rent is crazy 
high.
The office manager here knows people in a subsidized housing place in 
Oshawa, that has 10 or 11 March of Dimes units.
That is, the units are disabled-friendly, and there's a subsidy.
So I put my application in there.
My application's in a hundred places, proverbially.
And I'm not allowed to even apply for subsidy until I've lived every day of 
five years in the unit I'm in.
The office manager tried to get the City to cut me some slack, but they told 
her no.
So I'll apply here too, but my chances are better in Oshawa.
I don't know a soul there, but the office manager says the people she deals 
with down there are wonderful.

So, that's what's been draining my energy lately: worry about this market 
rent situation, waiting for my turn while my rent increases each year, and 
deteriorating health.
Between the pain, the meds, the worry, and the isolation, I haven't much to 
give to my writing.
It feels like as my body grows more dysfunctional, my abilities leach out 
one by one, till there's not but a blank left.
To top it off, I'm only 51. Nothing I have is terminal. I could go on like 
this for decades.

Sorry if I've ranted.
Thanks for listening, Vejas.
Thea

-----Original Message----- 
From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 1:54 PM
To: Writers' Division Mailing List
Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
Subject: Re: [stylist] How is Everyone Doing?

I've been good. I've had a great summer so far.
What part of Canada are you from? I've always wanted to go there.
Are your kids keeping in touch with you better?
Vejas

> On Jun 13, 2017, at 07:28, Miss Thea via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Vejas.
> Well, I'm still in the high-market rent situation.
> That is, most of my disability check goes to rent. I don't have a rental 
> subsidy, and it keeps increasing year after year.
> At one time, people with disabilities were top priority for subsidized 
> housing. Now, we're expected to wait like everyone else.
> This wasn't so in my twenties.
> In my thirties, I lost track of Canada, as I married an American, had two 
> kids and moved to Maui.
> After my health and my marriage broke down, I returned to my home and 
> native land to find this mess.
>
> My ex has passed away, and my kids are trying to get on their own feet as 
> college-age young adults.
> So I'm going to see if Amazon Kindle will accept the novelette I sent 
> yesterday for comment, for publication.
>
> I'd really like to find a writing buddy, perhaps one who can illustrate 
> some of my stories, or someone who can help me put my books in the right 
> format for submission.
>
> I'd like to start earning money as a writer. Just in case I don't find 
> rental subsidy soon.
> That, and I'd like to see what the general population would make of my 
> work. Would they like it?
>
> Anyway, that's about it for me. How are you doing?
> Thea
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 12:12 PM
> To: Writers' Division Mailing List
> Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
> Subject: Re: [stylist] How is Everyone Doing?
>
> Hi Thea,
> I'm glad you're back.  I'd say my story is going OK, but still
> has a lot of work to do!
> Have you been feeling OK?
> Vejas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miss Thea via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
> To: "Writers' Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:22:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: [stylist] How is Everyone Doing?
>
>       Hi, Vejas.
> How's your writing coming along?
> I got inspired to write a short story by watching a nature
> documentary.
> I really like how one person's work can pollinate another's.
> Thea
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 7:18 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
> Subject: [stylist] How is Everyone Doing?
>
> Hi All,
> I don't think I've posted in a few months, but just wanted to
> know how everyone's doing.  Traffic on this list seems to be
> fairly light.
> I just finished my first year of college.  I have still been
> writing a fair amount (but nothing short enough to post on
> Stylist-it's a longer-term project).  I've also started reading
> an English author named Nick Hornby, who is a New York Times
> bestselling author (for these of you who are familiar with him,
> I've read A Long Way Down, An Education and am now in the middle
> of How to Be Good).
> Anyway, hope everyone is well.
> Vejas
>
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