My biggest problem with this week's Castle is that Alexis could pay the rent with a work-study job AND get a lease without a co-signer, based on said work-study job. YEAH RIGHT.
In NYC. What kind of work study job does she have?
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
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sj - Oct 23, 2013 5:33:03 pm PDT #10197 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
aurelia - Oct 23, 2013 5:50:14 pm PDT #10198 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Is she still working in the morgue?
Trudy Booth - Oct 23, 2013 6:12:25 pm PDT #10199 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
She might have bonds or something to pony up a few months rent up-front. She is pretty well-off.
Too well-off, I'd think, to get a work study job, actually...
DCJensen - Oct 23, 2013 6:35:29 pm PDT #10200 of 11831
All is well that ends in pizza.
Some schools have so hard of a time filling work-study positions that they will take people even if they are not underprivileged.
Trudy Booth - Oct 23, 2013 6:51:28 pm PDT #10201 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
But then they're just "jobs," aren't they? Work study involves eligibility and federal funding.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2013 3:59:22 am PDT #10202 of 11831
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She might have bonds or something to pony up a few months rent up-front. She is pretty well-off.
Too well-off, I'd think, to get a work study job, actually...
Everything about that two-line conversation! When I was in grad school, I was paying rent with loans that I had up-front, and still needed a co-signer. (Maybe if I had offered to pay the rent up-front it would have been different?)
erikaj - Oct 24, 2013 6:36:52 am PDT #10203 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
You know the people that wrote that probably didn't think about it as much as you are, right?(Not trashing "Castle" specifically, though I did learn early on that it's not my beautiful cake.) But money on TV is always such a handwave.(Unless the show is like Friday Night Lights or whatever, where it absolutely can't be.)
Sophia Brooks - Oct 24, 2013 6:37:21 am PDT #10204 of 11831
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Work study is an actual program where the department you work for only pays a very small percentage of your pay, and the rest comes from the financial aid office account (and I am assuming the money comes from the gov't) The other thing is "campus employment" most places. At my university, I can say I will only take work-study eligible students, or I can open my job to everyone. My students make about $10 an hour, but they are prohibited from working more than 20 hours per week.
Una - Oct 24, 2013 6:49:01 am PDT #10205 of 11831
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Next episode we find out that Alexis and Pi are living in a cardboard box in Central Park.
(Pi totally confuses me, other than as something to annoy Castle. When did someone like that become Alexis' type?)
Jesse - Oct 24, 2013 8:03:18 am PDT #10206 of 11831
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You know the people that wrote that probably didn't think about it as much as you are, right?
Of course! I am reminded of the time I posted at Tim Minear the first time and complained about how they portrayed fundraising on Angel. Good times.