You souind like you'd be interested in a book I recently read called "Not Buying It" by one Judith Levine. It's this lady's journal from a year that she and her husband spent only purchasing necessities. It's pretty interesting. It also pissed me off a lot when she was talking about life in pre-Reagan America, which I and most of my people are too young to remember.
Still, it's a pretty easy read and I'd suggest hitting the library for it.
thanks for mentioning the library. the library's fucking great, but recently i heard a friend say she prefers the big box book store simply because it has a starbucks inside (or a "joe muggs" in certain cases.)
i'd give it a try, since i tried reading "Affluenza" and it was poorly written and lame.
LOL yeah.. I have a surprising number of librarians on my friends list.
Ms. Levine actually talks about the decline of the public library and the rise of the coffee/book store (which I have a love hate relationship with) as its "replacement".
Personally, I refuse to refer to a "coffee wench" as a "barrista" as long as they're making less of than a living wage. And for the record, I call the men coffee wenches as well..
My girlfriend keeps yelling at me about insisting on saying "large" instead of "Venti."
been living it forever. my mom was shop-a-holic. whether or not it put my family in debt for years is debatable, but the house where i spent my teenage years (well, at least 5th grade to, say, graduating college) slowly degenerated into a pit that nobody wants to go into. my parents just completely gave up at some point
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I know I give my parents a grace period of a year or two before I reclaim unopened movies. This is how I came about my Indiana Jones collection (which ironically, I haven't opened either).
Speaking of which, Season One of Lost is coming up on parole...
on a completely unrelated note, i just googled your name and a lot of funky looking women came up on the image search. i then googled my name and came up with a bunch of victorian era pictures of men with big fuck-off sideburns and mustaches. maybe one resembled my dad. yet none of the pictures actually said my full name...
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Still, it's a pretty easy read and I'd suggest hitting the library for it.
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i'd give it a try, since i tried reading "Affluenza" and it was poorly written and lame.
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Ms. Levine actually talks about the decline of the public library and the rise of the coffee/book store (which I have a love hate relationship with) as its "replacement".
Personally, I refuse to refer to a "coffee wench" as a "barrista" as long as they're making less of than a living wage. And for the record, I call the men coffee wenches as well..
My girlfriend keeps yelling at me about insisting on saying "large" instead of "Venti."
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Speaking of which, Season One of Lost is coming up on parole...
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"operation ballstorm, full speed ahead."
onward
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