All of my friends are working.

While I am proud that all of my friends have jobs, like yas boo boo get that coin, it has been so hard to coordinate plans with them. My three main best friends and I keep trying to coordinate, but it is almost like one person's break days are another's work day. While we all finally did get to meet and catch up on a whole year of college, high school (for one of them), relationships, and petty drama, that day took so long to plan out. My other main friend group is just never free all at the same time. We have people working days, nights, some still in school, and it just has not been working. Some of them are in relationships and they do not show up unless their significant other does too. I mean, I know we all saw it coming, but it is heartbreaking to never be able to see each other.

Finding a job in NYC is hard.

Now, I love living in New York City. It is a very entertaining city, and the minimum wage is almost $14. However, I have not been able to find a job. Well, I did, but I will tell you that story in a second. Many companies have been very unwilling to hire temporary/summer workers since there is a chance of wanting to hire them permanently (and not to toot my own horn, but I am pretty sure my work ethic would make them want to have me forever). Even when I got some interviews, they wanted me to be able to work until the end of September (which I cannot since I go back to school in August). I did however get hired to work at a (really boujee) lemonade stand in the meatpacking district. It seemed like an easy job too; all I had to do was pour lemonade, so I was okay with being paid only $10/hour + tips for this part-time position. My interview went great, and the manager hired me and another girl. They told us we would start on July 1st, and possibly have a training and team bonding day between all four employees in the last week of June. I was excited, and the manager even started a group chat with all of us to check in. July 1st rolled around, and she told us to just enjoy our independence day weekend and that we would start after the holiday was over. We all accepted it, but then we were never texted… I texted the manager separately on the 15th, and she said they were still finalizing things design wise, and that she would let us know. It is the 18th now, and I am still not working, so I have lost all faith in that stand (and probably will not trust another job offer from there again). Now with a little over a month left of vacation, no one will hire me now.

Everyone is in a relationship.

I do not know how all my friends did it, but almost all of them have a significant other now that they spend their free time with if they are not working. I was in one too in the beginning, but that relationship was kind of short-lived since I was not really feeling the guy. I support all of my friends and they are all dating such rad people, but I either have not seen them or have just been playing third wheel. I don't really mind being a third wheel, but it is not the most favorable role… My two best guy friends are so MIA in my life even though they live within a half mile from me. I do respect their girlfriends, and they are both very nice (also really pretty like what the heck I'm about to steal you guys), but WHERE THE HELL IS MY BEST FRIEND???

It. Is. Too. Damn. Hot.

I know I should just turn on the AC, but my mom does not let me. Why? Because it would raise our damn electric bill. A few days ago, I asked her if we could turn it on for two hours, and she said, "Let me mop the floor with cold water so that it gets cooler in here." And with my now wet, but cold, floor we still did not turn the AC on. I live in the attic of a house, and heat rises and somehow traps itself in the attic (even though we have so many drafts that blow in during winter). I have witnessed my chapstick melt in that house. It is to the point that the weather outside my house is cooler than the inside, even on a 95-degree day.