Day 4

[purplejulie95]

Hey y'all!
I've just finished composing the final exam for my class.  Yay.  It actually didn't take that much work, but I was dreading it because I'm so bad at coming up with essay questions that have the right amount of specificity, but still allow them enough room to show what they know.  Let's hope I did it well.  I'll know by the moans and

Comments

[alisso]

A good way to save money with home-made food is to buy and cook a lot of things in bulk. It doesn't take much more time to cook a big batch of something than it does to cook a single serve, and then you can freeze the rest in single serve portions. Whenever we do a lasagna, we use a pan that makes six serves, and then only eat two of them. That gives us four meals for later, and it freezes really well.

This saves you money, cause bulk buys are almost always cheaper, time, cause you don't have to shop or cook as often, and stress, as it means you can just go to the freezer and see what you've got if you can't decide what you want for dinner!

And as for books, if you can stand reading from a screen, you could try looking around online for free ebooks? There's quite a lot of torrent files available at places like the Pirate Bay that have pdf or epub versions of books. Or, if you'd rather not pirate, Project Gutenberg has a HUGE amount of e-books available that are out of license, and therefore free to anyone. It's all older stuff, of course, but there's some great classics there. I read them on my ipod touch, and used to be able to read them on my old nokia phone, but you can read them on your computer as well.

Otherwise, stick to second hand places rather than buying new *g* A lot of really popular stuff ends up in there at great prices because they get so many copies of them.

Good luck with it! *g*

[purplejulie95]

I've got to look at bulk cooking more closely. I will actually be teaching in the same building as my home department, so I'll have access to the microwave and a place to sit. That should make things easier. Thanks!

I'm also going to need to learn to read on the screen. I've got a Blio account too.

Thank you so much for your tips and the time you took in responding.
*great big hugs*