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On Can You Wear a Cocktail Dress to Work?
We were told to dress professionally to present at my school's health fair but then my group had matching birth control t-shirts and one lady was dressed as a pirate so you just can't trust nursing students to know what that means
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On The Frills of Campus Living
I only lived in dorms for a year (because I transferred 5000 miles away to a commuting school, AS ONE DOES) but I think the cockroaches and sugar ants perfectly prepared me to be underwhelmed by my current apartment's cockroach problem (like, they're smaller AND we don't have ants!).
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On How to Deal With An Unemployed Person
A month after I lost my previous job my grandpa (who works part time as a mechanic; I can't even) pointedly told my mom, "Gee, wish I could do nothing all day!" And I was all, well, yeah, because you're eighty.
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On Practically Free Mom-Endorsed Advice On Turning Your Frown Upside Down (Or at Least, Like, Bringing It Back to Neutral)
@nutmeg oh also I'm drunk right now (it's okay, I'm on spring break and don't have work until 11:00 tomorrow) so sorry for everything I say
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On Practically Free Mom-Endorsed Advice On Turning Your Frown Upside Down (Or at Least, Like, Bringing It Back to Neutral)
@nutmeg i hope my epitaph reads "she was a parenthetic statement wrapped in a parenthetic statement wrapped in yet ANOTHER parenthetic statement" only because the inevitable copyright drama will make me super famous
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On Practically Free Mom-Endorsed Advice On Turning Your Frown Upside Down (Or at Least, Like, Bringing It Back to Neutral)
My mom's advice was always school-related (mostly, "Maybe you should go back to school???") but now that I'm back in school all advice she gives is just soothing words that I listen to in order to back off that cliff I'm about to take a running leap from (admittedly, when her advice was, "Maybe you should go back to school????" I still thought of that as soothing background cliff-avoiding noise, and it was only when I realized on my own that, yeah, I SHOULD go back to school that she made any coherent sense [I still call my Mom bawling sometimes and she is the best in emergencies so she is all, "LET'S SOLVE THIS" and then DOES somehow by only TALKING and that is why my mom should be president, the end])
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On How I Made 3 Dinners For Two Average Out to Just $5 Person
It's been a goal of mine this year to eat more food I prepare myself, and so far it's been going well! BUT last night I spent over $20 getting fast-food delivery (my friend I was visiting was very sick, and the fact she could eat solid food was a good sign! but neither of us was up for cooking) and it was an awesome treat. The latter half of our time together was spent passing out from a food coma in front of endless Netflix repeats of Cheers (our mutual friend's/her roommate's Pit Bull also passed out on me and it was too cute to handle) and all that time we spent hanging out was worth more than the money we'd have saved if I had just made breakfast sandwiches at her apartment.
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On Friday Estimate
My estimate is about $75. I'm at my parents' this weekend and would like to say ZERO DOLLARS but I need to buy a bus ticket for Easter (about $50, only just decided to visit my parents again for Easter), and if I end up buying a new coffee maker (the old one consistently makes coffee too shitty to drink; I've done everything) I'll end up spending $25 on that. I guess? I don't even know how much a small drip model would be.
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On New York is Expensive, But Not As Expensive As Before
Oh man the perfect forum to trot out my oft-repeated anecdatum on this! My boyfriend's friend's friend (sorry) was visiting Boston from NYC and we were all at a bar. BFFF sez, "We got two beers and two shots for $26, can you believe how-" all of us pause, holding back the shouts of "overpriced"- "inexpensive that is?" I later found out he rents in a 1.5 bedroom (which, what is that) for $1800 a month.
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On How Much Do You Spend on Transportation Each Month?
I live in Boston and am almost entirely dependent on public transit since it's mostly too dangerous for me to bike a lot of places (I live pretty far from both my jobs). I spend $70 on a monthly T pass and never cab it, but my boyfriend has a car and does give me rides sometimes. I have a Zipcar membership that was a $35 Groupon I got last year and never used, and I spend almost $0 a year on bike maintenance (occasional tube replacement is about $6).