Good News, Fun Times Yet Feeling Hopeless

[chelseajmunoz]

I've been forgetting to mention the fact that within the last week or so a friend of mine who currently attends the college that I'm going to be attending told me that priority registration for school is going to take place on April 13th. That's pretty exciting because I hear that the website that I'm going to use to sign up for classes is pretty accessible for screen reader users like myself. An interesting fact about me is that both of my eyes are prosthetic. I've had both of my prosthetic eyes since June 2014 (I had the actual eye removal surgery for both of my eyes in March 2014). Even though I can't see light through my prosthetic eyes, my prosthetic eyes are still extremely sensitive to the light and sun. I never thought to do anything about that until recently and I'm writing my thoughts down in the hopes that having them written down will help me make moves to better this particular situation. Since I have insurance now I should call my insurance company to find out if that particular insurance company will pay for me to get glasses because there's no reason why I should continue to deal with this kind of discomfort. A little while after I'd written my last blog entry Sunday the lady whose house I was going to see texted me because she wanted to verify that i was going to see her house later that evening. So I texted her right away to let her know that I'd be at her house later that evening. She then texted me her address. An hour or so after she'd texted me her address a friend and I took Uber to her house. Unfortunately though the Uber driver said friend and I'd had didn't drop us off where we'd needed to be. So my friend and I knocked on someone's door to ask said person for help. Thankfully the guy whose door my friend and I'd knocked on was helpful. He knew who the lady was that I was looking for so he walked my friend and I to where that particular lady's condo was located. Fortunately the lady's condo wasn't too far from where his condo was located. Interestingly though the lady whose condo I was going to see called me as my friend and I were walking towards her place. As she was on the phone with me though she saw me. She then helped my friend and I the rest of the way to her place. Once my friend and I'd gone into her place she showed the two of us around. Her place had two stories but since the stair railing was on the right side going up the stairs, going up the stairs was fairly easy for me. Then coming down the stairs was easier than I'd thought it would be because the stair railing was on my left side which is my dominant side. Once the lady had showed my friend and I upstairs to the room where I'd potentially be staying I thought of how quiet it was in that particular lady's whole house. The room where I'd potentially be staying was pretty damn hot but the lady said that she'd give me a fan for my room if I end up moving there. The room I'd potentially have is not too close to the upstairs bathroom which is kind of a bummer. However there's currently a female who rents the room in that particular lady's house that's closest to the bathroom. The lady whose condo a friend and I'd gone to see Sunday evening had a washer and dryer in her condo. The only downside was that her washer and dryer is downstairs. However her condo is located five minutes from school which is nice. After my friend and I'd left that particular lady's condo I downloaded the Airbnb app onto my iPhone. That way if I wanted to continue looking for potential places for me to stay I could do so. As I was downloading the Airbnb app my friend checked his Airbnb app to see whether he'd received a response from the lady who I'd sent a message to this past weekend. That particular lady had responded to my message by declining it which was fine because that particular lady's house was kind of far from where I want to be anyway. Shortly after my friend had showed me the message that the first Airbnb lady had sent, said friend and I watched the movie Big with one another. The movie Big is about a little kid who goes to a carnival and sees a machine that's supposed to be a fortuneteller. The fortuneteller tells the little boy in the movie Big to make a wish. The little boy then makes a wish about wanting to be big. So the fortuneteller at the carnival he'd gone to grants his wish and the entire movie is about how life is for him as someone who's a grownup. It's a cute movie. The movie Big was narrated by someone which means that my friend and I who were both blind were able to follow along pretty easily with regards to what was happening in the movie. I prefer to watch movies and TV shows that are narrated by someone because there's so much that I miss as a blind person if I don't know exactly what's going on in any given movie or TV show. In fact Netflix has an entire section of movies and TV shows that are narrated by someone. No other company has such a thing at the moment so yay for Netflix! Yesterday morning I received a couple tweets from CPS Energy in San Antonio asking me to DM that particular company. So I immediately sent a DM to that particular company with my old apartment address as well as my old CPS Energy account number. Shortly after I'd sent that DM to CPS Energy in San Antonio I called the Transcripts Office at the college I'm going to be attending because I wanted to see whether my transcripts had arrived from ACC. However no one answered the phone the first time I'd called the Transcripts Department. So I called the Transcripts Office at the college I'm going to be attending for a second time and no one answered the phone then either. I then texted the friend who'd gone with me Sunday evening to look at a lady's condo. In the text message I'd sent said friend I included that particular lady's contact card so that he could get in touch with her if he wanted to help me negotiate with her if need be. After I'd texted said friend that particular lady's contact card I called the Admissions and Records Department at the college I'm going to be attending. Fortunately the lady I spoke with in that particular department told me that the college had received my transcripts from ACC. The lady also told me that said transcripts had been scanned into the college's system which was great news. Shortly after I'd gotten off the phone with a lady from the Admissions and Records Department I called the college I'm going to be attending again. This time though I asked the operator who'd answered the phone to connect me to the OSD. When I spoke with someone from the OSD I told the lady that the college had received my transcripts that were from other colleges and that I needed to schedule an appointment with a counselor at the college to create a plan for myself since I'm a new student there. I then asked the lady I was on the phone with if it would be best for me to wait until next month to have an appointment with a counselor or whether I could go ahead and schedule an appointment with a counselor sometime this month. The lady I was on the phone with said that it would be fine if I scheduled an appointment with a counselor this month. The lady then scheduled for me to have an appointment with a counselor on the 26th of this month at 11:00 in the morning. The lady then asked me whether I'd like for the college to send me a reminder text message about said appointment. I told her that I'd love for the college to send me a text reminder about said upcoming appointment. A little while after I'd gotten off the phone with the lady in the OSD I saw that I'd received a DM on Twitter from CPS Energy. In the DM that particular company had sent me the person asked me if he or she could help me with something regarding my account. So as soon as I'd seen that particular DM from CPS Energy I responded to it by telling the person that my CPS Energy account should've been closed on February 1st. In the same DM that I'd sent CPS Energy I also told that particular company that I've still been being charged insane amounts of money by that particular company even though I haven't lived at that address since January 31st. A little while after I'd sent that particular DM to CPS Energy I received another DM from that particular company. In the DM that that particular company had sent me the person notified me that the current amount of money that CPS Energy had charged me was from this past January. So I went ahead and paid said bill. Since it was already after 2:00 in the afternoon central time by that point though I didn't follow up with CPS Energy to make sure that my payment had gone through. A little while after I'd paid my last CPS Energy bill I Googled my insurance company's phone number because I wanted to put said phone number into my phone. Fortunately I found my insurance company's phone number on Google right away and immediately entered said number into my phone's contacts. This morning I texted the lady whose condo a friend and I'd seen on Sunday because I wanted to know what her decision was regarding the room I looked at possibly renting. That particular lady texted me a few minutes later saying that she'd decided to give the room to someone else which pissed me the fuck off!! The reason it pissed me off when she told me that she'd given the room to someone else was because when my friend and I were at her condo on Sunday the two of us both asked her at separate times what I'd need to do in order to get the room. She told my friend and I that she wanted to give everyone a fair chance and mistakenly my friend and I'd believed her words. Anyway once I'd received her text message this morning saying that she'd given the room to someone else I texted her saying something like "I'm really sorry to hear that you gave the room to someone else because I felt safe in your house and I enjoyed yours and my visit with one another on Sunday. I'm bummed about your decision because it's tough for me to live with someone that's a friend of mine because I don't have the independence that I used to have. After living in my own apartment for 6-and-a-half years, living with a friend is 15 steps backwards for me. That is driving me insane!! If I could have a place away from my friend, I'd be able to feel empowered again." Goddammit, people fucking suck!!! I feel hopeless right now, like I won't find a place on my own so that I can live away from my friend.