Illegally Sighted » Rant http://illegallysighted.com The Life of a Partially Sighted Woman in the City Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Day Where the Government Broke My Stomach http://illegallysighted.com/2009/10/22/the-day-where-the-government-broke-my-stomach/ http://illegallysighted.com/2009/10/22/the-day-where-the-government-broke-my-stomach/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:05:17 +0000 Amber http://illegallysighted.com/?p=142 Well OK…they didn’t break it but OH MY GOSH did they stress me enough to give me liquid booty!

I started my part time job back at the end of June. I TOLD Social Security about it since I’m receiving SSI benefits for being blind. Well the other day I got that infamous letter [...]

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Well OK…they didn’t break it but OH MY GOSH did they stress me enough to give me liquid booty!

I started my part time job back at the end of June. I TOLD Social Security about it since I’m receiving SSI benefits for being blind. Well the other day I got that infamous letter in the mail…

“You have an appointment.” WTF? I didn’t say I wanted an appointment.

Reading further…

“In reviewing your income…” Oh it can only go to hell from here right?

So I went to my appointment.

It was scheduled for me at 1:30 this afternoon. I got there at 1:15. My worker was over 10 minutes late getting to me. Had I been late they would have found an excuse to say I missed the appointment and stopped my check.

So I get in there and everythings fine. It was fine up until the point where he starts talking bout my income. I was informed to keep full benefits i can only make $85 a month from working. Also, I found out that they base their decisions on what I get each month from them on my GROSS income…before taxes.

So needless to say I got my benefits cut today. Basically in their opinion, if you get money from them you can only make $580 a month (in California.) They will cut your check to make it to where even with working that’s all you make. HOW is a person supposed to live on that? We’re not alowed food stamps out here because California adds $200 in cash aid to the SSI checks. We can’t get on housing because they never open the damn list. if I wasn’t renting a room from a family member I’d be on the street!

Needless to say again that this caused a lot of stress and tears for me. I am a person that doesn’t cry easily and I walked out of that office in tears! It was probably better though considering my next emotion was anger and though I outweighed that security guard, I don’t think that would have ended well.

So what do I do from here? I move on and forward. I’m continuing with school and working my job. I’m taking odd jobs on the side to make extra money and will be taking all the extra hours I can at work. If I ever have the opportunity to get close to full time I’m taking it.

You will certainly hear more from me on this topic. But in the meantime watch out here for some really cool reviews in the coming days.

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]]> http://illegallysighted.com/2009/10/22/the-day-where-the-government-broke-my-stomach/feed/ 0 Is Twitter Trying Their Hand At Censorship? http://illegallysighted.com/2009/10/20/is-twitter-trying-their-hand-at-censorship/ http://illegallysighted.com/2009/10/20/is-twitter-trying-their-hand-at-censorship/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:51:01 +0000 Amber http://illegallysighted.com/?p=139 I love Twitter! I’ve been a member since 07 and have met great people and kept in contact with people I already know. It’s saved me several times and I’ve grown attached to the little bird. It’s become as much a part of my life as good ol’email has.

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I love Twitter! I’ve been a member since 07 and have met great people and kept in contact with people I already know. It’s saved me several times and I’ve grown attached to the little bird. It’s become as much a part of my life as good ol’email has.

I was very disturbed however when I read about Twitter’s mess up today.

Apparently “No God” was a trending topic this morning.  Some Christian people were none too happy about this and strted retweeting a phrase “Know God Know Peace” to combat the “No God” tweet. Well, the athiests found it amusing to go ahead and make fun of this by tweeting “No God Know Peace.” This became so popular that Twitter couldn’t handle all of the tweeting that was going on (this is a major flaw that Twitter should work on, it happens often…can we say FAIL WHALE?)

Since Twitter couldn’t handle all of the tweeting and retweeting of these 2 trending topics a Twitter administrator decided to censor the “offensive topic” by combining the trending topics of “Know God” and “No God” into one topic labeled “Know God.”

So what does this mean anyway? If you were to search for the topic “Know God” you would find the tweets for “No God” as would be the case the other way around.

Part of me wonders if Twitter is secretly trying to censor us. Part of me wonders if the admin that did this was just THAT clueless. It will certainly be interesting to see if Twitter makes an official statement about this screw up.

If it is indeed Twitter being a censor then I will be finding another social network to spend my time on. I’ve liked Twitter so far because i can pretty much as whatever I damn well please. I can call people losers and give my quite frank opinion on everything. But I can’t say something about “No God?” That’s a “No Go” in my book!

Myself, i feel like all of those who worship a Goddess or both God and Goddess should tweet #knowthegoddess or #knowthegodandgoddess Let’s see what happens then!

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