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I have decided that I shall use some of my student loan money to purchase a Kindle DX. I briefly considered a trip to Australia, but decided against it for now in favor of the Kindle because it's cheaper, it will save me money on textbooks for school, and it will make it infinitely nicer to travel. My hope is that I will read more if I incorporate it into an ecosystem which will consist of my laptop, cellphone, and of course, the kindle.
I very nearly left the house to buy fast food, but I managed to make do with tap water and a peanut butter sandwich. I'm giving in to my frugal instincts in overdrive for the remainder of the winter, with only some money set aside for travel and learning to snowboard. If I'm going to have this ridiculously expensive kindle, I have to earn it with habits: one of which is doing my homework, and the rest of which are keeping vigilant on spending and cutting down on encounters with spendy people.
Most people I know are prone to a financially debilitating level of excess. They also live expensively in places they'd rather not be in order to occasionally travel to ones they would. It makes no sense. I love my peaceful mountains, and I love staying in my home, and I want it to be nicer to read there. At the moment, books take up a lot of space. The romance of going to the beach in January by Sydney is not lost on me, but I think that'd be more suited to a brief honeymoon with my 20s before I start Real Life post-degree (aka in a year or two, not now).
I am so glad I decided to live as a poor college student during the Great Recession. If you're going to watch the country fall apart, why not do it from a coveted position among the ranks of the nation's protected future? I could fight a senseless war half the world away like some of my peers, or I could cloister myself in books and creative process... those are pretty much my options. Option C was work a semi-interesting job I was offered with cool people I went to Maryland with for a decent living. There's no reason to expect Option C will cease to exist spontaneously in 2012... unless the Mayans were right! I have always been loathe to toil, and if I get my way and I end up teaching... I'll never work a day.
I very nearly left the house to buy fast food, but I managed to make do with tap water and a peanut butter sandwich. I'm giving in to my frugal instincts in overdrive for the remainder of the winter, with only some money set aside for travel and learning to snowboard. If I'm going to have this ridiculously expensive kindle, I have to earn it with habits: one of which is doing my homework, and the rest of which are keeping vigilant on spending and cutting down on encounters with spendy people.
Most people I know are prone to a financially debilitating level of excess. They also live expensively in places they'd rather not be in order to occasionally travel to ones they would. It makes no sense. I love my peaceful mountains, and I love staying in my home, and I want it to be nicer to read there. At the moment, books take up a lot of space. The romance of going to the beach in January by Sydney is not lost on me, but I think that'd be more suited to a brief honeymoon with my 20s before I start Real Life post-degree (aka in a year or two, not now).
I am so glad I decided to live as a poor college student during the Great Recession. If you're going to watch the country fall apart, why not do it from a coveted position among the ranks of the nation's protected future? I could fight a senseless war half the world away like some of my peers, or I could cloister myself in books and creative process... those are pretty much my options. Option C was work a semi-interesting job I was offered with cool people I went to Maryland with for a decent living. There's no reason to expect Option C will cease to exist spontaneously in 2012... unless the Mayans were right! I have always been loathe to toil, and if I get my way and I end up teaching... I'll never work a day.