Happiness is a Warm New Thing
Ah, the ways to spend money you don’t have without thinking about it. There’s buying a present for someone. Fourteen-ninety-five for a paperback at Walden’s; a paperback and see, it’s one of these books that like, totally changed your life and you know it will blow the recipient’s mind away so there’s nothing but good feeling and smiles as you whip out your credit card.
There’s the iced coffee(2.50) and cappuccino(2.95) for you and your father, respectively, on the way back from the visit one morning to the county prison where his student is interning. It was something about the four-concrete walls that the place boils down to in the end, together with the overcrowding with people who are really just mentally ill, the overmedicating of all and the resultant hopelessness of the administrative staff. Something about those things causing you to want a beverage that was both extravagant and caffeinated on the way home. For you and him to have the very beverages of your choice, and then to drink them while driving the rest of the way home with all the windows cranked wide open to summer’s excessive verdancy and air and light.
There’s the fancy salad (6.50) plus 82-ounce bottle of water (.85) at the Whole Check Natural Foods store on your first real weekday sans job (save a freelancing gig.) And the chick mag (5.50) to read while eating. Salad’s good for you, though. And that magazine was one of them-there quasi-feminist dealies, so that’s, like, sticking with your core values, there.
Then there’re the Necessary Expenses for the Moving. The sofa bed for your new teeny-tiny apartment – how smart!- that you bought at Swedish Four-Letter-Word store that pimps itself as being All Things Necessary. It’s the Real Simple magazine of the shopping world; you feel smart for spending 350 bucks there. That Muktajk (®) slipcover was a hundred dollars off! You fucking saved! Space *and* money! Pat on the back fer you!
These are a few of the expenses I’ve incurred in the week since I was dropped from the payroll at Small Publication. Which amount to way more than most any given week when I was on it.
Current Contemplated Future Ways of Spending Money I Don’t Have:
Haircut w/ favorite hairdresser
Eating out yummy Ethiopian food one last time before I leave Atlanta
Getting an airport card for this here computadora
Ah, the ways to spend money you don’t have without thinking about it. There’s buying a present for someone. Fourteen-ninety-five for a paperback at Walden’s; a paperback and see, it’s one of these books that like, totally changed your life and you know it will blow the recipient’s mind away so there’s nothing but good feeling and smiles as you whip out your credit card.
There’s the iced coffee(2.50) and cappuccino(2.95) for you and your father, respectively, on the way back from the visit one morning to the county prison where his student is interning. It was something about the four-concrete walls that the place boils down to in the end, together with the overcrowding with people who are really just mentally ill, the overmedicating of all and the resultant hopelessness of the administrative staff. Something about those things causing you to want a beverage that was both extravagant and caffeinated on the way home. For you and him to have the very beverages of your choice, and then to drink them while driving the rest of the way home with all the windows cranked wide open to summer’s excessive verdancy and air and light.
There’s the fancy salad (6.50) plus 82-ounce bottle of water (.85) at the Whole Check Natural Foods store on your first real weekday sans job (save a freelancing gig.) And the chick mag (5.50) to read while eating. Salad’s good for you, though. And that magazine was one of them-there quasi-feminist dealies, so that’s, like, sticking with your core values, there.
Then there’re the Necessary Expenses for the Moving. The sofa bed for your new teeny-tiny apartment – how smart!- that you bought at Swedish Four-Letter-Word store that pimps itself as being All Things Necessary. It’s the Real Simple magazine of the shopping world; you feel smart for spending 350 bucks there. That Muktajk (®) slipcover was a hundred dollars off! You fucking saved! Space *and* money! Pat on the back fer you!
These are a few of the expenses I’ve incurred in the week since I was dropped from the payroll at Small Publication. Which amount to way more than most any given week when I was on it.
Current Contemplated Future Ways of Spending Money I Don’t Have:
Haircut w/ favorite hairdresser
Eating out yummy Ethiopian food one last time before I leave Atlanta
Getting an airport card for this here computadora
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