My laptop broke recently. My uncle's skittish new cat knocked it off of my bed and killed the backlight in the screen, meaning that basically everything above the hinges will get replaced once I pay it off.

Being an unemployed badger, though, it's difficult to tell when that will be. I've worked out an agreement with the repair shop to pay $70 a month starting whenever I can manage to pay in July. That means with minimum payments, I'd get it back sometime in October. Like hell I'm going to make the minimum payments on something that important, but without any kind of income, I can't budget anything at all, much less that payment.

So as of this moment, I'm not going to be as active on the interwebs as I have been before. Given how much I tend to lurk, this may not seem like much of a difference to an outside observer, but for those who do care, I wanted them to be aware. I have access to the aformentioned uncle's computer while he's at work, so I can check emails and hold conversations until his shift ends at around 3:30 or so.

I'm also looking for a job. Ideally, it'd be one that would allow me to move away from my uncle, but just having a cash influx is worth it at this point. I've come to realize over the last few months or so that my uncle isn't the best person to be around for the sake of my mental health. He's not abusive, and I'm thankful to him for letting me eat his food and sleep under his roof, but his issues with anger and resentment put stress on anxieties and fears of mine. Hell, just informing him that I was going to look for a new job, and thus would be unavailable to watch his kids pissed him off, meaning that I nearly broke down when he acted like an asshole to me in response. I don't want to make him seem like a bad guy, and I don't have any problems helping him out with his kids or around the house or whatever, but if I'm going to deal with my problems, I don't need the additional stresses that he generates.

So yes. If someone who reads this profile wants to get ahold of me, either note me here on Furaffinity or through the contact methods that you are familiar with. I may not get them instantaneously, like I did before, but I'll do my best to keep up with peeps as I can. Wish me luck, everyone; I'm probably going to need it.