Looking back at the period of 7/12/2001 to 10/13/2001

Hard to believe I didn't write for more then 2 months.  Somehow I escaped bi polar Andrea and got a housesit job for 6 weeks on Radnor road in Baltimore.  They had 2 cats that I was severely allergic to.  On of the cats vomits daily.

I felt really scared because my untreated undiagnosed Lyme disease was knocking me out like a drug. I'd do 10 minutes of housework and then fall asleep.

After the housesit job I managed to find 2 large rooms for rent in a "castle" mansion in Roland Park.  The house had originally been custom built for the founder of the Maryland Institute of Art and a charm it was.

The owners had me live in the old slave quarters which I found a great deal of irony in.  The very first night the female l/l complained that I had disrupted her sleep by "flushing the toilet"  I had no money for food at all and was in one of my many periods of near starvation (but NONE of my many wealthy acquaintances and friends were aware of this)  I borrowed a pbj sandwich from my room mate and ate 2 of the l/l cookies that had been left out after they threw a party. Ellen the l/l said that "if you can steal 2 cookies god knows what else you are capable of stealing"  I had a few used washcloths in the bathroom (ellen quickly brought this to my attention even though she doesn't even reside in that part of the house)  I was unable to gather the deposit money ,so I was evicted in early November.

"USA Today/State by State"

Silver Spring MD 2/6/13

Montgomery County Officials and community leaders on Friday will talk at the civic center about their attempt this week to spend only $25 on food for a week! The amt. they are given in food stamps to highlight hunger issues , reported by The Washington Post!

author's note

I sure wish i could be there as a starvation survivor................................As it stands i have less then $2 a day to spend on food.

"Looking back at: 11/16/2001"

Waiting on my lawyer to take me to Dept. of Social Services. I haven't slept in weeks. I have zero strength and no money at all. D.S.S. supposedly awarded me $60.00 in emergency food stamps but when I went to the Giant to buy food there was no money transferred onto the card at all! (so I was unable to buy any food.)  I am at a starvation level as far as calories consumed per day go.

I am completely spent and don't know where I'll find the strength to job hunt. I think Peter (the man who has taken me in temporarily) (from Norway) is trying to understand my situation therefore isn't pushing me to job hunt right away. He is outwardly very difficult and very argumentative but has a heart of gold.

I'm going to try to stick it out here in Hampden until 4/1/02. That's my hope at least. Maybe I can stay here until I win my disability case.