Monday Check-In: Let’s Talk About Heirloom Tomatoes
Folks, it’s time to check in. Hope you all had lovely weekends.
On Friday evening, I decided I needed some sort of small indulgence to finish off a long week of work, and stopped by Zabar’s for a pint of Whiteface Mint Chip ice cream, fresh ground coffee to cold brew iced coffee overnight, and a baguette to eat on the way home ($11.94).
On Saturday, I put in some time to watch the Olympics, and then visited Kate’s Paperie to pick up some cards because everyone is suddenly birthing babies, celebrating their own births, or getting hitched ($33.15). I also dropped by Bed Bath and Beyond to stock up on some household items ($16.18), and renewed my subscription to the New Yorker ($39.95).
I woke up on Sunday morning with a huge craving for an open-face tomato sandwich, so I walked to the farmer’s market and bought three big heirloom tomatoes (pictured above: $11—I know, but they’re totally worth it), and then stopped by the supermarket for ciabatta, basil, mozzarella, and a four-pack of maine root sarsaparilla ($22.22).
Open-face heirloom tomato sandwiches recipe, which isn’t really a cheap eats because heirloom tomatoes aren’t cheap:
Get a hearty loaf of bread—either a pullman loaf, or a crusty ciabatta, and cut into thick slices. Drizzle with olive oil. Slice your heirloom tomatoes any way you want them (you can dice them small as if you’re putting them on a crostini, or in thick, meaty slices, or somewhere in between like I did), and put them in a bowl with chopped basil, minced garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. I also added a squirt of Sriracha for an extra kick. Toss and let it marinate for 20 minutes. Place slices of bread on a pan, and drizzle with a little olive oil. Top with slices of mozzarella cheese. Top with heirloom tomato mixture. Put in oven at 350 degrees for 10 to fifteen minutes until cheese is gooey. Enjoy with sarsaparilla or your drink of choice. Thank yourself for buying two additional heirloom tomatoes.
Total Weekend Spending: $134.44
What was your weekend damage?
Friday I went and visited with a friend and her new baby. I brought flowers and a card – $22.50.
Saturday I went to a museum (free), spent $17 on an eyebrow wax (this includes tip), $6 for some food and coffee at Dunkin Donuts, $80.85 on a boat ride for myself and the girls I’m a Big Sister for, and then $61 on dinner for the three of us.
Sunday I spent $15 at CVS and got $35 in cash. And then I spent $68 on Amazon for things like hair product, shampoo, conditioner, etc. Bought several bottles of each because the prices were really good.
So total was $305. Ouch.
@ATF@twitter Anything you do for your Little Sisters is a total karmic writeoff, friend. That’s awesome.
@aetataureate Thanks! :) They’ve (one is my official little, the other is her real life sister but I consider them both my little sisters at this point) been a part of my life for almost 4yrs now, so they’ve really become family.
Let’s see.
$5.48 for new toothbrushes (twofer was on sale for $5)
$11 for the Best nachos
$3.50 for a ginger ale at a free public radio/Marc Maron event
$36.55 for takeout sushi + noodles for the next day
$3.75 for herbal iced tea from the spendy place
$25ish for peanut butter, pasta, and lots of toilet paper from Target
Not so bad.
Friday I bought a Groupon ($30 for a 60-minute massage… not something I’d normally buy but I really wanted to treat myself).
Friday evening I took my best friend and his wife and their new baby and my boyfriend all out for sushi for my best friend’s birthday, which with (generous, because we sat for half an hour waiting for our friends to arrive) tip came to $102 (I covered the lion’s share of the sushi, which we also shared with three other people, because I’m the most employed besides the birthday boy and it seemed right).
I didn’t spend anything the rest of the weekend. We went grocery shopping but my dude paid ($38). We’re going out of town Thursday-Monday next week so it was a cheap week. I’m planning to make some kind of baked pasta casserole dish to eat on for the rest of the week tonight, and I think Tuesday we’ll go use a Groupon I bought a while ago and incur only tip at a favorite restaurant.
Friday – Picked up $17 worth of groceries, including ingredients for the lemon bars I was making for a picnic on Saturday. Dinner and a discount ticket to Batman that night totaled another $17. New suitcase I’ve been putting off buying forever, and gummy worms for the movie, $90.
Saturday I attended said picnic, and picked up $6 more worth of snacks on the way. Also treated myself to an iced coffee and scone, $5. Opted not to go out to a bar that night ($0!) and instead picked up a slice of Papa John’s for the night in ($2).
Sunday $28 on movie tickets, and my date covered the overpriced dinner so I got the better end of that deal. Also $30 in various necessities at RiteAid. And $8 worth of laundry, but I’ll spend another $24 when I pick up yesterday’s drop-off load tonight.
Total: $203, unless you count the laundry I have to pick up tonight, in which case it’s $227.
Friday I bought tomatoes and peaches from the grocery store ($8) and went to a classical music concert for half-price ($4.50! Yay!).
My only expense on Saturday was gas ($30) – I was taking party photographs for a benefit dinner at a farm. Dinner for me and a guest was free and mega-delicious: summer squash panzanella; these crazy meat-like carrots with harissa and brown butter; kale, oyster mushroom and beet salad; so many desserts. I’m still full.
Sunday I spent $20 at CVS on sunscreen, eye shadow, contact solution, and face scrub. I also bought a $2 iced coffee during a quick work meeting.
Total: $64.50.
Friday I went to an OCMS show at the 9:30. I bought the ticket months ago so didn’t count against my weekly budget, but $35 for reference. I brought a flask with me (again contents previously purchased) but spent $15 after on beer and clam strips because I was starving and my feet were killing me.
Saturday I went to the grocery store for people food and cat litter $43.33. This included $8 in yeast because I’m on a bread baking kick and $9 in cat litter. As an aside, buying cat litter is the WORST. I also ran by the market for eggs and local produce (about $16) and was too hungry to consider waiting an hour to cook so I bought a yummy sammie for $7. I had a friend date Saturday night. $9 at a wine bar and then $22 for cocktails down the street. Half of that was my bill and half was the tip becuase the bartender was the best. He injured himself hand chipping ice for me, what a sweetie :)
Sunday was $0 because I only left my couch long enough to make pita bread…which I then ate on the couch even though the table is about two feet away.
Total spending: $112
Didn’t keep track of my spending this weekend (though an embarrassing grocery trip last night during the storm included not only Oreos, but also yellow cake mix and brownie mix I’M AN ANIMAL) but all this is to say…ohmygodmike, I want one of those sandwiches? I think I NEED it.
I spend $15 on heirloom tomatoes routinely in the summer. No shame. They are SO worth it.
Friday night I went to a friend’s house for “brainstorming” (we watched the Olympics and drank wine instead). My contribution was the $8.99 easel pad for said brainstorming and a $9.82 giant bottle of wine. She made dinner.
Saturday morning I ordered a Kindle and a Kindle case, they were 40% off for Amazon cardholders. It pained me that the case was just $10 less than the freakin Kindle, but my roommate swears the lighted case is necessary. $83.39. Then I went on a little road trip with some friends to a brewery 2 hours away. I gave the driver $5 for gas, then donated $5 for the tour. $23.64 on Mexican food and margaritas post-tour. Went to a free art crawl Saturday night!
Sunday I ordered tickets for this year’s WFTDA (roller derby) championships. They were on limited earlybird sale so I got them at the cheapest possible price, $59.74. Picked up a cheap lunch ($3.17) and a coffee plus beans for the week ($14.93).
$213.68.
@down the rabbit hole Enjoy champs! I went when they were in Philly(and also still called nationals), and it is a good time. The hotel rates for that year were really reasonable, although I don’t know what they’re looking like for this year
@Sass I live in Nashville and have friends I can stay with in Atlanta, so yay for cheap trip! And of course hoping that our charter team makes it to champs, but it will be awesome to see that much good derby in a weekend regardless of if Nashville goes or not.
Friday – my boyfriend and I took his parents and brother out to a nice dinner. I hadn’t seen them in a while, and it was a fun meal. He and I split the bill – $79 each
Saturday – helped a friend move, so she bought all my meals! I had an iced coffee before I started – $3 – but she gave me $3 more than what she owed me for lunch, so total: $0
Sunday – Bought the week’s groceries – $72. Had steamed crabs with friends – $25.
Total: $176
Friday -
had a cup of coffee and a slice of olive oil cake with my friend, 5.50
Got a bikini wax, 24.04
Picked up my laundry, $18.08
Withdrew 40 dollars from bank, spent it on three drinks and a late night sandwich
Saturday -
Round trip train ticket to Croton Harmon for day birthday party – 18
Sunday
Spent $14.98 at Whole Foods and got $20 cashback, so $34.98
With the $20 I had I got a pedicure.
Total, $140.60
@kira fisher@twitter Mmmm olive oil cake
Oooo, I would like one of those tomato sammitches please.
Friday night I spent nothing because I was so fed up with the long, crap working week I went home, ate and drank whatever was in the house (which did include beer at least), watched a movie, and crashed out early.
Saturday I had a late lunch/early dinner at the pub after patching up the kitchen walls and swimming. Really great food at the Brass Monkey in Leith for not a lot of money! Ginormous sausage sandwich with salad and chips plus a nice beer for £10.
Sunday after putting the first coat of paint on a few walls, I went to Jamie’s Italian which has finally opened in Edinburgh. SO GOOD. So affordable. Plus I was owed some money, so my share of a load of food and a litre of house red was only about £12. It was definitely the best ever way to spend the time between two coats of paint. Got some groceries on the way home as well, £10.
Super cheap weekend at about £32, but I spent most of the time up a ladder cleaning, painting, patching, or collapsed on the couch taking breaks watching the Olympics, so not a whole lot of time to spend money.
Friday, I brown-bagged lunch and had leftovers for dinner, then helped my boyfriend rescue a pie crust he’d started on while I was at work. It turned out well, although the consensus was that we should have baked it longer(or used the frozen one in the freezer, or the mix in the pantry.) and gone fancier on the filling(which was just pudding.)
On Saturday(my birthday!) morning, we went to the flea market, but I refrained from buying anything there, mostly because I only had a $20 and felt bad taking all of a seller’s ones- instead I spent $13.46 of the 20 at the grocery outlet on: four tetrapak boxes of chopped italian tomatoes, a fancy bottle of tonic water, some fancy cookies, four packages of weird-ass Miracle Noodles, and a 2-liter of diet Mountain Dew for the boyfriend(I am vaguely Amish in my pantry-stocking tendencies, hence the multiples.) Then I went to the DMV and spent 45 minutes and $49 to renew my registration on the last day I could possibly do so, which made me late to my own birthday festivities at a local restaurant called Retro Dog(drive-in hot dog & custard place). Hot dogs, onion rings, and fries for the two of us ended up being 23.87, and then a friend(who had also volunteered a Toy Story tablecloth, party hats, balloons, noisemakers, and paper-airplane-esque gliders- her kids won’t let her go crazy for their parties any more apparently) bought me a small salted caramel dip cone. Plus she sweet-talked the restaurant manager into giving us stickers, temporary tattoos, and a t-shirt because it was my birthday. She is awesome! After lunch, we went home and I read a book and swept the kitchen before going to boyfriend’s mom’s for dinner and Olympics-watching.
Then on Sunday we got up and went to the zoo(free, but also technically $50, as boyfriend got me a membership for my birthday), and then for pho afterward($25 for two phos,two drinks, and one banh mi for lunch today, plus tip.) Total of $111.33, which is not terrible, although it was somewhat reliant on the generosity of others(boyfriend at $50 for the zoo membership gift, friend at somewhere in the $20′s for decorations and ice cream – but she volunteered both so I am trying not to feel bad.)
Today, though, I am starting a spending fast for the rest of the month(starting before my birthday just felt too miserly) – so next weekend should be quite a bit lower.
Holy crap, those tomato sandwiches!
A friend who owns a car was visiting and very generously offered to make a trip to IKEA, as I am car-less and the list of stuff that I have been needing hasn’t quite justify a ZipCar. Other than the amount spent on that excursion and the rent, pretty good but not great.
$4: Soy latte to combat Friday’s mid-morning slump.
$980: Rent.
$22.87: Assorted beers at D’Vines.
$6.50: Vegan pastries at Sticky Fingers.
$12.57: Pale ale and veggie wrap at the local wine bar.
$3.23: CVS (Can’t find the receipt, don’t remember what I bought.)
$48.00: Burmese lunch for me and friend.
$78.49: Various housewares (and a Swedish meatball plate) at IKEA.
$7.20: Blank notecards and envelopes at Plaza Art.
$10: Ticket for ‘The Watch’. (It was unbearably hot yesterday and we just wanted to sit in an air-conditioned movie theater. Also, I am a sucker for Vince Vaughn.)
$12.86: Fruit and yogurt at Whole Foods.
$23: Thai delivery.
$1208.72
@shesaboutamover justifed, not justify.
friday – $11.99 and $24.65 for dinner party groceries. $30 impulse buy for midnight pizza delivery.
saturday – $4.48 burger.
sunday – $38.13 groceries for the week.
= $109.25, which is pretty good. managed to pay a bunch of bills last/this week and put away a little in savings. though my money in savings is not long for that account as i’m a brideslave in my friend’s wedding next month and the activities leading up to and during weddings are always expensive.
@wearitcounts hahahahaha “brideslave” +1
@aetataureate hahaha thank you. that term had to be coined. that is the nature of the position. but i’ve been using it more often than not and now i’m nervous i’m going to accidentally say it in front of her at the (likely alcohol-infused) bachelorette weekend.
Friday: $100 on groceries for the Shabbat dinner I hosted for my birthday. About $25 of that was on farmer’s market produce, the rest at the grocery store. No idea how my grocery bill was that high- what the hell was I buying? Well, no, I know why. The salmon was not cheap. My friends brought drinks and we ate good food and got drunk.
Saturday, birthday dinner with a friend who can’t afford to treat, $33 for splitting an appetizer, gigantic fancee organic cider, entree, tip.
Sunday, $5 on the Sunday NY Times. $9 on household supplies, $12 on snack-ish groceries. $12 on sushi for dinner and $6 on a milkshake. $22 for a bus ticket from NY to DC, for today, so I can attend my grandmother’s funeral. Hence the sushi, and the milkshake, and the inability to eat real food or cook or anything.
Total: just under $200
Friday – 300 yen on groceries for dinner.
Saturday – 1500 yen on train fare for the day. 700 yen for snacks and drinks during my workshop. 1500 yen on more snacks and drinks at the festival and fireworks in the evening.
Sunday – 500 yen train fare. 1500 yen on lunch and dinner and drinks while womaning a flea market booth for a non-profit that I work with. 300 yen on earrings at the flea market, and another 300 yen for a super cute polka dotted dress.
Total: 6600 yen.
I didn’t track my weekend spending, but I did register to talk about sandwiches! Once upon a time, Mike Dang mentioned mango/bacon/arugula/sriracha sandwiches, and since then they have become not only my favorite sandwich, but my go-to dish when I need to feed people things that are both casual and delicious. Obviously, I will be making these heirloom tomato sandwiches. Mike, thank you for your financial advice but ALSO for your exquisite sandwich taste!
STOP CALLING US “FOLKS.”
I find the idea of “weekend damage” to be an unhealthy, stigmatized way to think about money! We earn it in order to spend it, whether on bills or sandwiches or friends, and labeling normal purchases as “damage” implies that the only responsible thing to do with money is to hoard it, which simply isn’t true.
@nzle
What’s wrong with folks? It’s one of the few non-gendered ways to address a group of people. Besides “people”. “Faithful readers” would reset the twee meter in here…
oh man, Maine Root. I have a Maine Root ginger beer habit burning a hole in my pocket.
I need to get bread so I can eat Harriet the Spy sandwiches for the rest of the month. Yes yes ciabatta mozzarella WHATEVER, just give me some mayo and salt and pepper and maybe a little Old Bay and we’re good.
Friday – Order from Amazon for vacation books (29.16), pedicure (40), coffee and a snack for work (11.41), splurging at Crate and Barrel (36.02), and my weekly organic produce delivery (39)
Saturday – Gatorade and a Clif Bar at the halfway point of my 26.5 mile bike ride (3.25), and drinks at a speakeasy type bar with friends (41)
Sunday – I went to a wedding and needed a car, so I rented a zipcar (99.88)
The grand total comes to 299.72. Which is A LOT, but it included a lot of very rarely purchased splurges, so I’m pretty okay with it.
Friday night: husband stocked up on shirts at a sale online. $160
Saturday: Picked up lunch for family. $29
Sunday: Exterminator came to remove a chipmunk from my dryer vent. A CHIPMUNK. In the DRYER VENT. OMG. $175 (included disposal of chipmunk carcass, free spraying of wasp nest by garage. A bargain.)
Target, $53
Grocery store, $159
Gas, $57
I use the word “folks” all the time. No objections here.
@selenana Me too! And as a teacher, it’s a good non-gendered alternative to “guys” ;)
Weekend spending not as bad as I thought, especially since my mom was visiting.
$49.15 on Saturday at Zabar’s for an awesome brunch with bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese, fruit and good coffee.
$20.42 Taxi home Saturday evening after seeing Blue Man Group (boyfriend bought tickets)
$15.53 at Fairway for more fruit for lunch on Sunday.
$142.30 on Sunday at Paragon Sports, to get a few pieces of gear for an upcoming kayak trip.
$65.13 on Sunday for a yellow ceramic glove mold from Fishs Eddy, which will be my sister’s Christmas present.
Grand total, $292.73. Not awful considering that the outdoors gear will last a while and I’ve checked a Christmas present off my list.
Friday: $11 on bananas, Gatorade, and a Starbucks energy drink (the first two so I wouldn’t cramp up/dehydrate during my motorcycle lessons over the weekend)
Saturday: $0 (free lunch and leftovers for dinner!)
Sunday: $2.75 coffee, ~$7 lunch (burrito), $3 dinner (slice of pizza)
Total Damage: $23.75.
Including cost of the motorcycle lessons: $373.75, but that conveniently got charged on Thursday ;)
Friday: $30 cable to connect laptop to projector. $16 twelve pack of beer (meant to last several days, but then a friend came over, so boyfriend, friend and I drank all but two. well worth it.) $7 puppy toys
$14 on the best in town thai takeout for dinner (boyfriend bought. eaten while drinking delicious beers and watching netflix on the projector)
Saturday: $ 22 farmers market, $40 taking puppy to the vet, $5 coffee w friend $30 target
Sunday: free puppy class, then studio day: $0 Total: $149
I am choosing not to think about my spending total for the weekend, but I dropped OVER $250 on 4 bras AND ate froyo twice on Saturday. Cost benefit analysis for giganto boobs? Not Worth It.
@rubiksboob But froyo twice = always worth it.
@rubiksboob Good bras for gianto boobs are worth it! and with four you can have a rotation going so they all last longer. #boobscanbeaproblem
Saturday grocery run: $50 (includes above mentioned heirloom tomatoes)
Renewed subscription to Proxy server (Olympics, y’all): $16.00
Sunday dim sum brunch with BFF ($20) followed by a stop for some amazingly tasty ice cream (Two flavors: Raspberry Coke and a banana peanut butter thing called Elvis Elvis Elvis) $4.00
Total: $ 90
BUT
I also returned a bunch clothes to Target that looked great in the store and looked like absolute crap at home: $48. Returning stuff always feels like free money.
Went to DC this weekend
~$12 on six pack of dogfish head, and $4 on bratwurst to bring to tailgate of the DC United game.
~ gave $25 to the friends who drove me to DC
~ $38 for the ticket + a lemonade
~$18 for dinner
~$7 on batteries
~$25 for brunch + gelato
~$14 for the metro
~$60 gassed up on Sunday (actually cut it super close, was legit worried I might run out), then stayed in watching parks and rec.
BUT, I found a two dollar bill at CVS buying batteries, so that was a plus. Lucky money!
@Marzipan I got a two dollar bill in my change from the hardware store today! I’d never seen one before.
I went to DC this weekend to stay with a friend and see John Mulaney at DC Improv. If we’re not counting the bus ticket expense ($48) and the Improv tickets ($47 for two) because they were paid for before the weekend started, I actually had a pretty cheap weekend. $16 for groceries on Friday, then $3.90 for a metro ticket on Saturday. I bought the show tickets, so my friend paid for dinner + drinks. On Sunday when I got back to NY I spent $9 on groceries and an additional $9 on take out because I was too tired from traveling to cook anything. Total: $58
Spent $40 on movies and dinner out on Friday (that includes movie, popcorn, 2 cupcakes I had to buy at the Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws that were delicious and totally worth it, and a magazine), $20 at Chapters on a book and the new Playstation Magazine.
Saturday I spent $49 on groceries. I also bought tomatoes and made tomato salad (diced tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, olive oil, mini boccocini and balsamic vinegar, so good), but they were probably not as good as those heirloom ones.
So $110-ish, not bad, not great. I couldn’t even buy all the groceries I wanted with that $50, which is kind of ridiculous.
$45.30 – Dinner out (appetizer, pizza and wine for two).
$50.48 – Groceries for the week
$20.89 – 12-pack of beer for Olympics-watching
$12.90 – 3 cans of cheap nasty beer (including tip)
$4.02 – Index cards (I’m going old-school with my recipe collection)
$13.04 – Target run: Coconut milk, frozen burrito, chocolate bar, and Command strips
$15.00 – 2 beers (including tip and donation to area nonprofit)
Soo… $158.63. Not the least-spendy weekend ever. But, I got my first paycheck at my new, higher pay rate on Friday.
Charged two round-trip tickets to Paris for Christmas on my credit card (nonstop LAX to CDG): $2729
New workout stuff (shoes + sports bra): $100ish
Total: $2829
Last week my incredible neighborhood produce shop had 10-pound cases of heirloom tomatoes for, I kid you not, $2. I made http://joythebaker.com/2012/07/summer-tomato-cobbler-with-blue-cheese-biscuits/ with some and tomato sauce with some and still had to throw out a few because I couldn’t use them fast enough. Shame.
My weekend spending:
$8.35 on tofu and various fruits and vegetables for dinner Friday
$10 on laundry
$4.60 on coffees
$6 on a beer
$41 on beers and lunch for the dude and I at a bar
$22.63 on pork tenderloin, kale, a bottle of rose, olive oil, and some chocolate
Total = $92.58…could have been worse, but given that I have a friend visiting for six days starting on Wednesday and that will likely entail spending lots of money, could also have been better, I suppose.
Those tomato sandwiches look glorious.
Friday: $13.50 to rent three movies, because Canadian netflix sucks
Saturday: $113 on a pair of leather boat shoes – up till now I’ve had no regular shoes for a while!
$3.75 on strawberries and a peach, walking home from the gym.
$10 on three iced-coffees (treating a couple pals)
$22 on hummus & cheese and pita, because apparently I can’t bring myself to cook anything ever this summer, choosing instead to subsist on pita & fruit & yogurt & chocolate
Sunday: $2 on two montreal “everything” bagels
$25 on cheese, hummus, strawberries, peaches, trail mix, chocolate
$30 at the pharmacy on face wash and moisturizer (why does my skin hate me?)
$15 on beer and nachos to console a friend going through a rough time WHILE watching the 100m dash.
Damage: $234.25 but not including the shoes, which I don’t because they were bought with birthday money (mike dang you’re right, truly the best gift is cash), $121.25 which is about what I was hoping.
Friday – Two sandwiches from a bakery that I don’t live close to anymore so I always indulge when I go by it ($7) and drinks to go with them ($3). A pop at a screening of North by Northwest that I had free passes to ($3 – oh wait! No, my friend bought me that, because, free movie! $0)
Saturday – Umbrella rental ($10) and mandatory empanadas ($7) at Wreck Beach. Dinner and 1/3 of margarita pitcher ($30) before fireworks (free!). Late night pear & gorgonzola gelato (would have been $4.50, but free again from other friend who I took to the movie).
Sunday – Life brand ibuprofen and benadryl for weird bug bites that I’m crazy allergic to ($12). Late night bag of chips snack ($5).
Total: $74. Super happy to have stayed below my $100 budget, though a lot of that may have had to do with benadryl-induced stupor.
Pretty sure I spent nothing this weekend, which is currently the plan for every weekend.
Friday I was in full Office Space mode at work so I probably just went home and embraced the lazy.
Saturday I tried to sell some clothes on consignment but one shop was closed and the other didn’t want my castoffs. Went with my mom and dog to the farmer’s market, but since dogs aren’t allowed near food booths I was kept out of spending temptation’s path. Cleaned and organized my financial papers.
Sunday went out to breakfast, which my friends treated me to (oh — but as they had a pay-when-you-order system, I did end up having to write a $2.17 check for my refill orange juice). We watched baseball for a little and then got ourselves together to go to the beach, which turned into an accidental 8.6 mile hike in sandals and ill-fitting skinny jeans, and was by dinnertime far too tired to protest being treated to that as well (‘sides, I never got paid for my last batch of paper grading).