My First Freelancing Gig

After showering up and getting ready this morning, I got dropped at my Drug counselors office by MyGirl. Once again I forgot my phone which seems to be a trend lately, so I am walking around with 2 bucks worth of change rattling in my pocket so I call when I was done.

I was dreading going into his office and shooting the bull for an hour just to get a letter, especially on a day that was going to be as busy as today was. My worry turned out to be for nought since he had another appointment at the same time and just handed me my letter with no chit chat.

So with what felt like an hours head start I made my way to my PO's office a few blocks down the street. My issues with probation are two-fold; I hate waiting forever when it seems like it would be easier on everyone if you could schedule appointments and I am not good a pissing on command. While the waiting issue is simply an inconveniece, the piss testing is little higer priority.

On the very first time my PO tested me I couldn't bring myself to piss with another man standing next to me. My PO informed after the test that, not submitting a sample was the saem as a dirty test. She then let me know I got one free-be and I had just used it in our first meeting. Greeeeaaat. Since I figured I was done with coke it wasn't a concern to me, but I'd still like the cushion.

Now that I had come up dirty a few weeks ago.(I still don't know how) She was back on my case, we had stretched it out to the point I was only seeing her every 6 weeks now we are back on once a week and even worse than that. We are done with spit testing and back to me peeing on command like some kind of performing animal. Today being the first day back on that system I was once again very nervous, but all was well I went like a race horse.

After leaving my PO's office, I walked down to the payphone called MyGirl , who was on another shopping spree. She said "as soon as I finish in this store I'll come get you." While I had settled in for a good hour or two wait, she actually arrived in about 30 minutes. We went and did a little lame ass shopping and then had some lunch.

After we wrapped up lunch at Pat & Oscars MyGirl dropped me at home so I could get started on my new Project. That's right people I got my first job as a freelance write. It is actually going pretty good I have 3 days to shoot off half of it and then the rest is due by friday. It's a little tough because I am researching everything for the topic, and it is farly obscure. I'd infact say I have spent 80% of my time researching and 20% writing though that should get to about 65/35 in the next few days.

The most pleasent surprise in all this has been MyGirl's support. I fully expected a backlash in the area of "Writings not a real job" I was completely wrong, she basically set a very reasonable minimum and said, "If you can make that much a week, I'll consider it a job and you can just work on your writing" So I am definitely focused on making this work. So much so in fact that I want to apologize upfront, the quality might not be the best around here this week, I am just squeezing these in at the end of the night. I've considered just passing on it, but this is more about me getting my thoughts down permananetly that it really is about you all reading it.