Well, Fun. – No, wait: Well, Fuck.

Taking time off of work late last year, six months after an expensive emergency trip back to the States, pretty much wiped away all my meager savings. This year, the last in my current visa, my plan (and need) has been to save, each month, a chunk of money – which is to say, to purposefully focus on saving and to do so now. After January and this month, I've been about as successful as I hoped (the first 10 days of January, which I missed because of the god damned flu, notwithstanding).

My asshole company just announced that it will be closed from March 2nd through the 15th – two damned weeks – following the government's somewhat-hair-on-fire recommendation, and will do so without any compensation to employees on, as I am, a per-lesson payin' basis. So... there goes my savings! And, quite possibly, more than that. So, while I figure out how things will work, etc, I'll just be over here panicking for a while.

Carry on with whatever it is you're doing.

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UPDATE: Later in the selfsame day (night), but after I’d had a really long existential panic (and I was surely not alone), they seem to have relented and will provide us some approximation of the money we would have earned. I use seem to because they either actually relented, or they did a horrible job communicating in the first place and allowed us all to wonder, and worry about, what the hell was going to happen.

Anyway, there’s something like relief.

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