Ok. In Billings and trapped in the surrounding five counties. So here's what I am gonna say...I've been talking to the Community Development Director. We made up of course. No hard feelings. So I asked for "buy in" for my business model. She said what does that look like? I said it doesn't look like the last seven years of my life get forgotten okay? I said it looks like support and that I have been out doing research on our systems and that if I can fall through the cracks knowing EVERY service in this town, anyone can!
In 2010 I was working at the Homeless Veterans facility I helped with a huge grant for forty veterans. I could spend exactly $75 dollars on each of them. Pretty rough and even quite ridiculous to build the housing and not actually be able to invest in them. I quit after six months. I was the only female there and then the management wanted me to go sit at the Men's Rescue Mission and pass out donuts and coffee while five months pregnant. I had a system for someone to call me from the shelter if a veteran showed up. I told the managers to take a hike and quit.
Then I had a grand mal seizure in the psychward. Then I had a baby. Then I halfway got a job as a Director for women's prison reentry pilot project. Then I didn't get it. Then we started fighting. Then I moved out. And that's where my seven years systemized all began. Got on disability. Forgot I had worked for the city and had friends and drank alone at Hudsons. Got sober. Got sex. Fell in love. Wrote a book. Fell through the cracks....Can't stop talking about the injustice. Seven Years in Billings. I was just doing social research...that's all it ever was. WINK WINK!
She wished me the best. FYI. I still need a lawyer to get this missing link in our community going! Wingin it. She said do you really need a lawsuit for start up? I said I do! I want reform...and I have a way to get there!!! And that would be so much easier than trying to get financing in this town! But maybe we would have "Angel Investors" out there too. I heard about that at Big Sky EDA yesterday.
Enough out of me!
In 2010 I was working at the Homeless Veterans facility I helped with a huge grant for forty veterans. I could spend exactly $75 dollars on each of them. Pretty rough and even quite ridiculous to build the housing and not actually be able to invest in them. I quit after six months. I was the only female there and then the management wanted me to go sit at the Men's Rescue Mission and pass out donuts and coffee while five months pregnant. I had a system for someone to call me from the shelter if a veteran showed up. I told the managers to take a hike and quit.
Then I had a grand mal seizure in the psychward. Then I had a baby. Then I halfway got a job as a Director for women's prison reentry pilot project. Then I didn't get it. Then we started fighting. Then I moved out. And that's where my seven years systemized all began. Got on disability. Forgot I had worked for the city and had friends and drank alone at Hudsons. Got sober. Got sex. Fell in love. Wrote a book. Fell through the cracks....Can't stop talking about the injustice. Seven Years in Billings. I was just doing social research...that's all it ever was. WINK WINK!
She wished me the best. FYI. I still need a lawyer to get this missing link in our community going! Wingin it. She said do you really need a lawsuit for start up? I said I do! I want reform...and I have a way to get there!!! And that would be so much easier than trying to get financing in this town! But maybe we would have "Angel Investors" out there too. I heard about that at Big Sky EDA yesterday.
Enough out of me!
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