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On Who Didn't Have a George Foreman Grill?
One birthday, I received Pajama Jeans as a (super awesome) gift.
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On Initially Nice But Later Incompetent And/Or Crooked Landlords
The first apartment I ever moved into was $900 a month for one bedroom, one living room, a small kitchen and a tiny bathroom, which I still think is a pretty great price by Hawaii standards! However, it was in a bad neighborhood, our neighbors had a terrible rat problem that the landlords refused to take care of, and pale white mushrooms periodically grew out of the bathroom. I will never move into an apartment again without taking pictures of everything first, documenting every landlord-tenant interaction, and getting all the landlord's promises of repairs put down in the lease. UGH.
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On A Conversation With a Single Mom Living on $40,000 a Year
@tuntastic Actually, four people living on $58,000, if you want to be picky.
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On What'd You Spend On Your Bed? Like $200? Does That Sound Right?
For a cheap yet awesome do-it-yourself approach, I recommend the Orgy Proof Loftbed, despite its stupid name. Borrow someone's power tools, buy the wood from a good hardware store, and you end up with a sturdy, lovely loftbed that you can adjust however you want. It was a family project, and the bed itself has lasted seven years and is still going strong.
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On Do You Have a Uniform?
I do not have a uniform, per se, but I do have a tendency to exactly repeat my outfits once I figure out something that I know "works" well, from head to toe. Luckily I have a ridiculous amount of clothes, so it takes me the best part of a month to cycle through my outfits before I have to start doing laundry.
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On Snoozing and Losing
I don't use my snooze button, but I do set about seven alarms on my cell phone, all going off at different intervals and with different melodies. I feel like that's about the same thing, honestly, or maybe worse...
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On Yes You Can Go a Year Without Buying Clothes! I Did It And So Can You
Sorting through your closet and re-evaluating your clothes is an excellent way to figure out your own shopping habits. Having lots of cheap stuff I've never worn says to me that, NO, ten dollars is usually not a good price for something if it is so weird I will never wear it. My overflowing cabinet says that I am pretty obsessed with humorous t-shirts and fancy summer dresses, and I should probably cool off on that for a while. Best-used items: the two thermal leggings that I wear almost every day of the week in the wintertime, my plain v-neck t-shirts, and both light-weight and heavy cardigans <3
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On I Got an M.F.A And Now I Teach English in the Middle East
Echoing everyone else to say, please write the next part, about your actual experience teaching in Qatar! :)
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On Fleeing Upstairs/Downstairs
I am currently working overseas, with a lot of British colleagues (and Irish, South African, American, etc.). They pretty much all say they left because the economy sucks.
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On I Spend a Lot of Time Thinking About Hair Removal What About You
Hair. Why do we care so much about hair??? Why is some hair dirty and some hair sexy?!! Is it a weird mammal fixation? I'm fairly relaxed on the hair-removal spectrum, but I do shave my legs and armpits every two or three days, bleach my upper lip occasionally, and I know that I take a bizarre pleasure in plucking random hairs out with my tweezers. I've never been waxed or gotten a Brazilian, but I do even trim with scissors as well if I think I'm going to get lucky. We are such strange apes.