Thanks, this helped a shitload more than the TV news.

:)

such good work. i'm breathing, grateful that "lost" is so engrossing, and thankful for the "go-fucking-help-somebody" advice.

this is BRILLIANT.

I'm living in a bachelor apartment with my mother who snores and when I stay up late asks me things like, "Aren't you tired?? Don't your eyes hurt from reading??".

Still, I feel pretty good and lucky. I'm volunteering at the botanical garden, which is awesome.

Keep up the good work!

Getting food stamps was even easier than the article said. You just have to make an appointment and be willing to provide the contact information for your landlord, bank, and last job. I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely helps stretch out the unemployment check! I wish I'd done it before...

Please... attention re-order syndrome.... tell me again why I should respond to your command in THIS day and age... I mean... I don't have any REALLY GOOD PILLS TO WASH AWAY MY OLD FRIENDS WHO DESPISE MY LOYALTY NOW FOR FUCKING THE BOSS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Pehaps I should get a NEW job, take more mind altering compulsivity enabling mood depletion chemical enhancement products and become a genuine winner.

When you start to look for a job, remember to put that volunteer work to good use on your resume...

Seriously good advice. What better way to drown your sorrows than in volunteering? There are bajillions more ways to volunteer than listed in this article. . . go to www.uwkc.org/volunteer OR www.seattleworks.org. Good stuff.

Reminder: some pharm companies have patient assistance programs for if you're down-and-out (Wyeth, for my own happy-shiny pills, for example._

Also: Sometimes medical coverage lasts until two weeks after your last paycheck. So if you just got canned, call your doc and beg for a ten-minute appt to get all those last-minute scripts written. Months from now you'll be glad.

Thanks and good luck.

I feel like this article was written for me. Thanks so much for putting some things into perspective and giving us contact information for so many good resources and causes in the area!

Another low-fee therapy resource: The Fremont Community Therapy Project, www.therapyproject.org. Fees start at 45.00 and go downward. Low-cost psychological assessment also available, as is access to a nurse practitioner for medication evaluations. FCTP additionally offers two DBT skills groups. Therapists include native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin and Serbo-Croatian.

this entire section truly reveals what a pathetic collection of incurable hipster-douche assholes the Stranger "writers" are. How to get free appetizers? Really? Good to know you guys are really looking out for the disadvantaged and downtrodden. Also, for future reference, special "how-to" pullouts should actually tell you how to accomplish the advice they're giving. I know this will be very limiting for talents like ECB and BJC but trust me, actually LEARNING how to do something (as opposed to just prattling on about it in the vain hopes of making yourself look "in-the-know")will be valuable to you when advertisers finally figure out that only bums and meth-heads read the Stranger, pull their ad subscriptions, and force you to do something way more distasteful for your free lunch than buying soda water and not tipping.

In anyone elses hands ST5 would have been one of the better installments. Great story. Could have been real heady stuff. Shatner's meat hooks wrecked it. He can't direct anyone out of his driveway
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