Chapter 15 has now been updated with Noah's new voice. You can check it out here.

Chapter 12, now with Noah's new voice, which is a lot easier for me to replicate, is done. You can listen to it here.

I've given this a lot of thought, and I've decided I'm going to be altering one of the characters in Arturos Academy a little bit. Specifically, I'll be making some changes to the character Noah Langston, aka the Australian kangaroo that considers Ravi his best mate. There are a few reasons for this. The biggest one is, despite the fact I thought I could do it well enough, I don't like the accent I gave him. Trying to maintain the accent I was using was a lot harder than I thought it would be. There's also the fact that, despite my best efforts at understanding Australian slang, it feels a bit too weird for me, and, since I already have trouble trying to pull off the accent, I think I'd sound even more fake trying to use the Australian slang when I barely understand it.

What does this mean exactly? Well, I'm still going to leave him as a kangaroo, but I'll be changing the voice I used for him to something I can do a bit easier. This is also going to mean a few of the previously completed chapters are going to be re-recorded with the new voice, and, in some cases, new dialogue. The ones that will be affected would be Chapter 12: Aural Guidance, Chapter 15: The Guidance of Friendship and Chapter 16: Revealing a Mystery.

I probably could just keep things as they are, and practice the accent/slang more so I could get it down, but, even though I'd be trying my best not to offend any Australians with my poor attempts at it, there would always be the worry in the back of my mind that someone would come across it and get on my case about it. Yes, it's probably really unlikely to happen, but this is just me being paranoid.

So, yeah, I'll be doing another chapter soon, which may or may not include the new voice for Noah. I haven't written the script yet, so I don't know at the moment. But whether or not he's in the next chapter, next month will be partially spent going back to the above mentioned chapters and putting the new voice in. I'll likely make another journal when that's done, so you guys can give the revised chapters another listen.

I woke up today with a very strange feeling that I, at first, couldn't place. While I was taking a shower, though, something popped into my head.

I had posted a fanfiction/script of my idea for a sequel to An Extremely Goofy Movie over on FanFiction.net a long time ago, which I called "A Totally Goofy Movie". This was a HUGE script I wrote that took place as Max was nearing the end of his time in college, involving him dealing with a new bunch of transfer students at the college that try to make trouble for him. As completely stupid as it's going to sound, even though I knew I never actually would do it, I wrote it in script form, going on the idea that it would be funny to actually send it to Disney one day. Mind you I never did, nor did I ever even actually try to do so, because I knew it would never actually go anywhere, but that WAS the reason I wrote it as a script. This also included a Goof Troop fanfiction/script, entitled "Zimmer Down" where Max and PJ meet Bobby for the first time (meaning Robert Zimmeruski from the movies, not my character).

Why does this matter? Because, as it turns out, it was 18 years ago TODAY that I posted that script over on FanFiction.net. That wasn't the date that I originally wrote it, but it was the day I made script publicly readable. I have no idea why it was today that my brain decided it wanted to remember the anniversary of the day I posted it, but yeah, that's what happened.

If anyone is curious to read it, you can check it out here. Just a warning, though... This is a LONG read. You'll either want to read it in spurts or else be prepared to sit there for a while. Also, in the script, I gave the Barret Girl (PJ's girlfriend in EGM) the name Kathy. This was written back before I learned her name was Mocha, but that's who I'm referring to with that name. Any other unrecognized names are my own creation.

Side note: The other two stories that are on the account are stories I abandoned writing because I lost motivation to write back then, so they never ended up getting completed. The one linked here in the journal is the only one that is complete.

This has been bugging me for months, and yet, despite many attempts to get assistance from the admins AND many attempts to reach out for help on their forums, I've not gotten any responses back, so I'm gonna try posting a journal here to see if someone here can assist me with this issue.

Itch.io used to send out e-mails whenever a creator I was watching there made a new version to their visual novel/game. That way, whenever something new came out, it was easy to keep things up to date. Unfortunately though, for me, these e-mails stopped happening sometime around six months or so ago. I've done no changes to any of my settings that would stop the e-mails from coming in, and itch.io is NOT blacklisted on my e-mail. In fact, I have a filter on my e-mail so they are sent directly to a specific folder.

It's not a matter of the creators not updating things either, because the creators I watch there put stuff out once a month. Despite this, for the last six months or so now, I've been stuck having to manually go to my itch.io feed every week or so just to make sure I didn't miss anything. I've missed updates multiple times because of me no longer getting e-mail notifications.

If anyone can help me and tell me what's wrong here, I'd greatly appreciate it. Here is what my email settings area looks like right now. Again, my settings have ALWAYS been this way, and I've never changed them, so I don't understand the issue, but if something new has been added elsewhere on itch.io that now controls whether or not the update e-mails show up, it definitely isn't here.

Of the different endings in the original game, what was your favorite ending? I'm contemplating which ending I should do a parody of next for The Bobby Parable: Super Compact, and I want to parody a few of the original endings before I start doing the newer ones, so I figured I would ask and see what opinions you guys had on some of them.

I'm specifically making a journal posting a link to the update video I did for the last month because it covers a couple different things that I wanted to make sure my friends here found out, just in case they weren't watching me on YouTube. This consists of an update on my roommate Henry's medical situation, as well as a couple personal medical-related matters. To anyone curious, here's the link to the vid:

https://youtu.be/PMHy4EKaoLw

Meega nala kweesta!

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Ten years ago today marks the day I posted the very first chapter to the first audio story I ever created. I didn't know, back then, what I know now, so it obviously wasn't the best, in terms of quality, but I'm still proud of myself for even doing it at all, because it became the start of my audio story making hobby.

I plan on, eventually, doing an updated version of the short audio story, using what I've learned to make things sound better, but I'm not sure exactly when I will. Nevertheless Porcupine Passions is still something I'm proud of.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS.....xshyv9xoy8Znvw

Starting May 1st, I'll begin uploading things again. Here are the current plans:
- Sunday will be the return of my Winds of Change Let's Play. For quite some time, this will be re-uploads of the original Let's Play. There were about 40 episodes up before the channel got shut down, and, since there is NO sexual content in the story, uploading it again won't get me in any future trouble. Once things are finally re-uploaded, I'll be continuing where I left off, finishing off the initial run of the story before moving on to the Corruption route.

- Dragon Quest Builders 2 had literally only JUST gotten its first episode aired when the channel was taken down, so, because I enjoy the game, I will be doing that for the channel on Tuesdays.

- Saturdays will see the return of Major/Minor. There were only about 10 episodes of this one before the channel was shut down, and, since this contains no sexual content either, it should also be safe for posting.

This just leaves the Thursday slot. I was originally working on trying to get as much of the content for Paper Mario: The Origami King completed, since I had finished the story, but, seeing as, before the channel was shut down, I *did*, at least, get the story mode done, and, realistically, don't believe I could have 100 percent'ed the game as I originally planned, largely due to what I already would have missed, I've opted not to continue, and have chosen to move on. This means I need only one other game to put myself right back to the same four videos a month I used to post, and, as luck would have it, I already had a game in mind anyway. A game I would have started when I had finished with Paper Mario: The Origami King, had the channel not been wiped. What that is, though, you'll have to visit my channel to find out.

So, yeah, there you go. There's the plans for my new channel. Hope to see you all there!

I'm going to try to recap what has happened to me over the last 24 hours. Both what I've already said here, and what has happened since.

At sometime around 12:30 AM or so, after I woke up from a late nap (my sleep schedule is a mess from a horrible insomnia issue I've had for years, but that's a story for another day) , I got an e-mail saying my YouTube account had been terminated due to frequent community guidelines violations. This was BS because, even with my adult visual novel Let's Plays, I always censored everything and I always marked the videos as age-restricted so minors couldn't view them. So, when I saw that, I immediately filed an appeal. I was obviously and rightfully upset and angry. A few hours later, I got a response saying they reviewed the offending video further and determined that it WASN'T something that should have gotten my channel taken down and reversed the decision. I had gotten my account back. I was still upset and angry, and didn't sleep well the rest of the night, but things were okay.

After waking up around 9:30 AM or so, everything still seemed fine, and I assumed there would be no further issue, so I continued with my day's plans, which, unfortunately, included being out of town due to needing to have an MRI done at the hospital that I had my surgery done at back in November. The MRI itself started off fine, but as it neared the end, they suddenly had to stop it, because one of their machines, the one connected to my finger (to keep track of my pulse, I think?) apparently died. I was bothered by it, because it had already gone longer than it was supposed to have, but I dealt with it. When they finally got me back in to finish the rest of it, which SUPPOSEDLY was only supposed to be about ten minutes more (I'd been 30 minutes into the MRI already at that point, the supposed full length of time it should have been to begin with), it took considerably longer. This was made worse by the fact that, after the ten minutes had initially passed, I was starting to get some severe back and arm pain (not much space inside, for those that are not aware), and, despite having my Gideon plush with me, both my claustrophobia AND my anxiety started acting up. It was only at THAT point that I had realized that the little button they gave me to push if there was a problem when the test began was NOT given back to me for the last bit of it. Despite trying to call out, and ALMOST screaming from pain, anxiety and fear, I was never heard. I was forced to lay there, freaking out, until the test had concluded. And when it finally had, and I tried to explain that I was trying to get their attention because I was having problems near the end, the MRI tech, who clearly didn't hear what I just said, had, instead, focused on my facemask (I was wearing my Dipper facemask at the time) and makes the joke "It's hard to take you seriously with that clown mask on your face". It took everything I had not to want to hit the guy. I stayed calm though, let him lead me out, finished what I needed to do, and headed to my other appointment (to see one of my neurosurgeons that worked on me in the hospital).

Along the way though, I discovered that my YouTube account had been removed AGAIN. For the same exact reason as the first time. Okay, so first let me preface this by saying that I don't actually think someone had it out to get me with the day's events. Immediately, just like the first time, I appealed it, but this time, the response took a lot longer to get back to me. So long that I had finished my other appointment (that, thankfully, went fine. The scans that were taken showed there were absolutely no issues. My new shunt was still working perfectly.) and was almost home before I'd gotten a reply.

By now it was nearly 9 PM. The reply I got indicated that, much like with the previous time, the offending issue was reviewed and it was determined there was no violation, so my channel was going to be restored.

Here's where things turn sour though. I checked my account immediately upon getting that, thinking, like last time, the channel would be restored immediately. Despite being told it was going to be though, this time, it had not been. Okay, fine. Maybe they're just busy. It *is* a big company. Perhaps I just got lucky the first time, right? Well, 10 PM came and still no channel restoration, despite being told it had been. This struck me as odd, so I put in an inquiry via the link to reach out to them if I thought there was a problem and told them that if the issue was a speccific video I could handle it tomorrow, and that the only reason I hadn't was because I was pout of town with no access to my channel, and, because by that time I thought my brain would let me crash, I retired to bed, hoping to get at least a little sleep. Didn't happen. Tossed and turned for an hour, finally gave up and got back up again. Checked my email again. They replied... but, and here's the point that had me wanting to bang my head on the wall. They replied WITH AN EXACT, WORD FOR WORD COPY OF THE LAST E-MAIL I GOT. I was never speaking to a person at all. Sure, a person may have REVIEWED IT, but the e-mail itself is clearly bot-handled. What's even worse? I went back and checked the e-mail from the FIRST time they helped me, and, guess what? EXACTLY THE SAME. Well, I decided at that point (now 11 PM) to word things differently. I specifically mention the fact that, despite being told twice that now that my channel restored, they still had yet to do so. Guess what? An hour later, midnight. THE. EXACT. SAME. E-MAIL!

So, that's where things are for me right now.

As for why I don't think it's someone specifically that has it out for me. I believe I have figured out WHY it got flagged a second time, inexcusable as it still is. As I stated above, when my channel was hit the first time, it was just past midnight. Most people are normally asleep by now, but, in my case, because of the weird insomnia issue I've got, that's the time I tend to wake up for the evening nap my body tends to want. Well, when these naps DO happen, after I wake up, my body decides I'm completely alert, but only for about another 3-4 hours or so. Enough time for me to have appealed the takedown, get it restored, then spend what iminimal time I had left before my body decides it was ready to actually sleep. Since my brain was a mess by that point, the though didn't occur to me to start taking down some of the videos that could potentially cause this issue to happen again in the meantime. By 3 AM, not even an hour after my channel had been restored, my brain was ready to actually sleep, so I did.

I had to wake up about six hours later, because I had to leave at about 10:30and go to Seattle for the appointments I mentioned above. So no time to do anything with my channel then either. During that time, several past videos had some content blocks put on them, that were previously content blocked the first time. YouTube reinstating the channel basically meant the content blocks had to cycle through again. These DO NOT affect my channel. It's just that, in certain countries, certain videos cant be watched, and a few were copyright claimed because of music in some of them, which, again doesn't affect my channel (it only would have affected something if I was monetizing them, which I don't and never have). The first time I even looked at my Youtube channel after that was sometime in the afternoon, around the time I was almost in Seattle, and, at that time, my account was still fine.

The problem that I think caused the channel to be taken down the second time was, if my theory is correct, the exact same video that got it taken down the first time. And here's why I think that. As I said, I had NO time to do any video deleting between when it was restored the first time to when it got taken down the second time. What further adds to this theory is the fact that, as I mentioned, all the original content blocks and copyright/monetization blocks got processed again, almost as if the videos were all newly uploaded again. Many of them happened within minutes of each other. And since the first three videos I had that were supposed content violations, the three Dozer videos, had already been removed when they got pulled the first time, instead, the system went right to the next one that it found a problem with (which was the same one that got my channel pulled the first time today), which, as it happens, was another Extracurricular Activities video, this one though for the character Darius. Since I'd not taken any action to resolve the issue yet, they now likely saw that as a new violation, which, despite the fact they already determined it wasn't an issue, was apparently enough to warrant taking my channel down again.

So no, I don't think I've been 'targeted'. What I think is YouTube doesn't seem to care that, by reprocessing my videos, as it seems they did based on the other stiff that passed through the account, they reprocessed the content violation THAT THEY ALREADY CLEARED. And, because I was STUPID ENOUGH not to spend time on my CELL PHONE removing the videos while I was away form home, which, in hindsight, I should have done (and COULD HAVE, in fact, because I have the YouTube Studio app on my cell), I've lost my account twice in 24 hours, and based on the realization that the e-mail that I thought was from a human actually talking to me really wasn't, I likely won't be getting it back again.

What does this mean if that's the case? Well, it means ten years of videos are almost all gone. Truthfully, it isn't so much that I lost the videos themselves that bothers me. I could always replay the games and reupload them, and I can still do VNs, just nothing pornographic. What bothers me is more that it was taken down despite me NOT violating guidelines. I put a LOT of effort into censoring the adult VNs specifically BECAUSE I know about the guidelines. I didn't WANT this to happen.

Anyway...  david31 is going to be sending me copies of the videos I've done of my two most recent VNs, Winds of Change and Major/Minor, when he has the chance to do so, because he has to download videos for offline viewing to be able to watch them, and those two, although there is adult subject matter (violence mostly), there is NO porn or nudity ever shown in either one. I can't be attacked for 'pornographic content and nudity' if there isn't any, after all, right? I won't be doing this right away, because I need some time away from YouTube recording for a bit, but, if my old channel doesn't get restored, I'll be starting a new one, using a gmail that i have linked to google that I never created a YouTube channel for. I also HAD plans to start up a couple other games anyway. This all happened after finishing the story mode of Paper Mario: The Origami King, and, while I was originally going through and collecting what i could to get myself as close to 100% as I could, since I finished the story mode anyway, and realistically I don't think I was going to get anywhere close to 100% anyway, I would be starting a different game in place of that. This had also, interestingly, happened JUST AFTER the posting of the first video to the sequel of Dragon Quest Builders, so, since it only means redoing one video, I planned to continue that.

So yeah, that's pretty much my day in a nutshell. One way or another, I'll find resolution to this. Whether it means deleting videos from one channel, or posting videos to a different one, I WILL get past this, but if the latter happens, don't expect it to happen for a while. I'm just... drained from all this.

Mine, specifically. 37 today!

I've been waiting for this game to get its official release for months now, and it got released a couple days ago. I let it download overnight, and played it a bit for the first time yesterday. I'm having fun with it so far, and already have a pretty decent deck. At least, *I* think I do.

Anyway, for anyone else who has started playing it themselves and want to add me, my ID is 552-543-022

As a heads up to anyone on here that notices, it's come to my attention that someone is now in possession of my old cell phone number, which if I'm remembering right was probably my prepaid cell from before I got the one I'm using now. If anyone sees a number pop up in their telegram as 5228 with my name attached because i was one of their telegram contacts, just remove it. it isn't me. The number likely had been re-issued after being deactivated for so long.

Rather than responding to everyone individually, I decided to just make a new journal. After just under 72 hours with no power, (The power shut off at 8:33 PM. Yes, I kept track.) we finally go power back. I'm not going to make this a huge, drawn out journal. I have only two words to describe the whole experience:

Fuck winter.

Last year, we only had snow for about two days, then it was gone. We've now had it for about a week, and, last night, around 8:30 pm, it knocked out the power. As of this journal, we've discovered that the earliest it will be back on is sometime late tonight, but most likely not until sometime either tomorrow or the following day, because several power lines were taken out.

Henry, Steve and I are all fine, and we're starting bundled up as best we can. There is a fireplace in the house, but it isn't up to code and is unsafe to use.

Here's hoping we'll be back to normal soon.

Here's hoping 2022 is a better year.

Please read the entire journal.

I have been denied the Hardship assistance.

Reading that, you're probably all thinking the same thing I was at the time I read it. "Why did I get denied?" Well, here's the thing, while I was denied the assistance, the reason is because, apparently, I never needed it to begin with.

I'm going to start things off with something that happened about two weeks ago. I'd not brought this up before now because I was uncertain of what circumstances led to it happening. I had received a new bill statement in the mail. When I looked at the bill though, I noticed that it was much less than it originally was; the cost having gone down by about half. I didn't quite understand this, because I had made zero payments toward the bill yet because I was still trying to sort out the details of getting assistance. I logged into my patient portal and left a message with billing to ask them about this. In doing this, I also noticed something very odd. Normally, my patient portal shows the amount I still have left to pay right on my main page. Now, though, it didn't show the original amount. It didn't show the NEW amount either though. In fact, any sign of the bill was gone from my portal page entirely. Even looking under the billing section showed $0 owed. This happened on the 15th, with the bill itself dated 12/8. I didn't notice the date on the bill until an hour after having sent the first message to them though, and when it occurred to me the lower bill couldn't have been a result of the hardship (because my stuff wasn't mailed out to them until the 13th, five days after the bill had been printed) I sent an additional message asking them what was going on.

The upshot was, at the time, I was told to call their Financial Counseling Dept and inquire directly. The problem was the number I was given for this is the same number I'd already told the very same person that had just wrote that to me, that that specific department no longer handles the hardship cases themselves. But neither they nor the person I was speaking to knew where I needed to go from there, so I was stuck just waiting until I got more information, either from the department itself or via mail.

So, where did that leave me? Well, I woke up from a nap tonight to see that I had an e-mail indicating I had a new message on my portal from the Financial Counseling department. I started getting really nervous and upset even before I read it, but did my best to hold it together as I logged in and looked. There, on the portal was a PDF file of a letter from them indicating I had been denied the Financial Assistance. Reading that made me more upset, but I forced myself to keep reading. What followed was the reason why: Medicaid had already 100% covered the bill. I was denied because I never needed it.

I was a mixture of wanting to cry and wanting to scream out from being so happy. Having read the letter, I have my assumption as to what happened. My guess is Medicaid could only cover so much of my bill per month, so, once Medicaid had paid part of it, the hospital must have sent out the new bill, hence the lower amount, but the next cycle on my Medicaid must have kicked in before the new bill had actually reached me, so my account had been cleared of the debt before the bill had gotten to me yet. I have no idea if this is ACTUALLY why it happened, but the fact remains that the bill was fully covered. I owe nothing on the bill.

As a side note, to anyone wondering, I have saved the electronic copy of this letter to my computer, in the file that I've stored all the Financial Assistance documents I had put together for all of this, so that if, by some highly unlikely chance, they try to come back to me demanding that I pay the bill, I can present this letter that states, in their own words, that the bill was 100% covered.

I can't tell you guys how relieved I feel right now.

I got a response regarding the medical bill. I was offered two things. The first was them lowering the 'payment plan' option from $250 a month to $180. This, unfortunately, was still out of my budget range. The other thing they did for me, though, which, at this point, is my only hope, is that they sent me a Hardship application. Basically, I'll fill that out and send it in, and, based on what they decide, from what I provide, my debt could be reduced or eliminated. This is the one thing I'm REALLY hoping works out. I've talked with my housemates and an agreement between us has been reached regarding my share of household stuff (rent/bills etc) if this doesn't pan out, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed here.

I'm fighting, guys. I really am... But I'm freaking out.

:)

I was denied the financial assistance for the medical bill, so my next step was to send a message to their billing department, via their portal, explaining my situation. I included a copy of my SSI verification letter as well, as proof that I'm actually on SSI. The ball's back in their court now.

So... I have a few things I figured I would share to let people know what's been going on with me since having written the hospital journals. Apologies for how long this journal might get.

I want to start things off by saying that it does appear that yes, the surgery has worked and has done what it was supposed to. I've not had a single migraine since the day I had the surgery. That's not to say I have been without any pain. I've had to deal with a lot of different post-surgical pains in the last several weeks. Many of which had me worried that something was wrong with the surgery.

More than once, I ended up with a headache. Not a full on migraine, just a headache. Yes, I can tell the difference, based on how my body feels during them. The fact they were only headaches didn't stop me from getting anxious though. With me having had to deal with the entire hospital stay alone, I've been terrified of even the smallest thing with my body. So every time I got even a small headache I got worried, even though I knew it wasn't a migraine. Thankfully, the headaches would go away with some meds and a quick nap, so that usually solved the issue.

There was also the fact I was frequently experiencing these random sharp pains in my side. No pattern to when they would happen. No specific movement would set them off. They just seemed to happen randomly. These occurred in the lower left side of my belly. Not at my incision site, but several inches to the left of it. I would be going about my normal activities, then suddenly I would feel a sharp jolt of pain. These pains would last anywhere from a few seconds to upwards of 30-45 minutes. I literally only two days ago discovered that the hospital I had the surgery done at had an online patient portal site that can be used to communicate with the doctors and nurses there (which I only learned after waiting nearly an hour on hold for the hospital the day prior to that to try and get hold of someone) so I sent a message to them and discovered that it's unfortunately a part of the healing process I'm going through. The reason it's been so difficult and causing the random pains is because the tubing is trying to find a place to settle inside my body, but it's rubbing against old scar tissue from the past surgeries I've had (and I've had quite a few of them over my lifetime), so, unfortunately, until the tubing finds a good settling place, it's going to keep happening.

And speaking of tubing, another issue I've been having has to do with one of the pieces of it, namely the catheter, that is directly beneath the incision that was made in my belly. It runs the entire length of the incision and protrudes out from my stomach. This wouldn't be an issue, except I sleep on my left side. Because of where the incision and catheter are, my normal sleeping position now make it so the catheter pushes in on me stomach if I lay the way I normally do when I'm sleeping at night. This makes laying down to sleep difficult for me, as I now have to shift around repeatedly just to try and find a position to sleep that won't cause me discomfort. The problem there is that I also move around a lot when I'm laying down. So even when I do find a good spot, I can usually never stay there long, because my body shifts a bit and I just end up uncomfortable again. I decided to report in about this too, and I was told that this is also something that is part of most shunt surgeries and that the catheter will eventually smooth out. I only hope that when it does, I'm able to lay down properly again, because I've lost a decent amount of sleep over this already. Usually once I get to sleep I'm fine but getting there has been hard lately.

So yeah, it seems that a lot of the issues I'm currently having are common issues with shunt surgeries. I find it bizarre though that, despite the number of surgeries I've had in my lifetime, I can't seem to remember most of the things I'm being told are common issues/side effects.

There's one more thing to mention regarding medical stuff going on that I feel like I should mention. Several days ago, I decided I needed a personal day to myself, so I went onto my various messengers and left messages to my friends advising them that if they didn't see me online for the entirety of that particular day, it was because something had happened the day prior, and my mood was dragged so far down that I just wanted to focus on games for the day, but wanted to let them know I was okay, so they wouldn't worry and think "Why weren't you online? Did you get hospitalized again?" or anything like that. At the time of it happening, I didn't give the reason for why I needed the personal day.

The reason I needed it though, I've decided I'm going to mention it. That particular day, I received the bill for what my insurance didn't cover of my shunt surgery. While it isn't a massive amount, it's still more than I can afford to pay. Especially with me on SSI. When I got the bill, I freaked out. I did not handle it well and had an anxiety attack, followed shortly after by completely shutting down emotionally. Even when I woke up the following day, I wasn't feeling any better, which is why I ultimately decided I needed a personal day. I didn't feel like talking to anyone. After telling my friends I was taking a personal day and would not be online at all for the day beyond that, I shut all messengers off, and did not respond to any texts or phone calls. I just needed a day where I didn't really need to think much and could stay distracted. I did though, use the time to attempt to request financial aid with the bill, as it listed a site with information to apply for it. Realistically, I'm not expecting to get the assistance, but, from what I read, I'll know sometime within the next two weeks if I got it or not. If so, great. If not, my next plan of action is calling the billing department directly and explaining that I live off of SSI and can't really afford the bill.

Let me say this now. I am NOT asking anyone for money. Explaining what I did was solely for the purpose of letting everyone know what's been going on with me. I do not want to ask anyone for assistance, because I can't afford to pay back anyone that helps me anyway. If I could, I wouldn't need to ask for help anyway, as I could just pay the bill itself. So please, take this journal as what it is meant to be. Information being passed to those wanting to know what's going on. Nothing more. I'm going to get past this. If it comes down to it, I'll just try and find out what the minimum amount they will accept for payments is and try and see what I can do from there.

Pokemon Creepy Black

https://youtu.be/NgXDihhs41o

And for those that are watching this account, but not watching my primary account, here's the other Halloween project I did this year:

I Put a Spell on You