On Lines for a Variety of Situations Relating to Money

Couscous and salad dressing? I am intrigued...

Posted on May 17, 2013 at 3:47 pm 0

On So Cool to Live in a Post-Race World

Flyover Feminism has a great series on now about names and how they've affected the various submitters' lives. This one by Trudy Hamilton is so very good, and the inverse of the situation Logan describes above. Also, I hope nobody here is suggesting that they discriminate based on name, because that would be uncool. I may be interpreting it wrong but some of the comments here are getting me a little squicky.

Posted on May 15, 2013 at 5:44 pm 3

On Friday Estimate

Bike shopping! I hope I don't find anything, but if I do, budget is $500. I know, it's the worst time to look, but I figure they gotta get rid of old stock eventually...

Posted on April 26, 2013 at 1:18 pm 1

On Not Paying for Museum Admission Not Worth It

@aeroaeroaero I had to skip to the bottom. Augh! And now my nails are all bitten off.

Posted on April 8, 2013 at 6:18 pm 0

On Monday Check-In

@RachelW Yay, bike! What did you get?

Posted on April 8, 2013 at 6:04 pm 0

On WWYD: A Job After Graduation

I took a job on campus after graduating with my BA in Arts...washing dishes at the main food hall. It was a part-time union job, with a good wage and decent coworkers, but having to scrape uneaten food from first years' and smug engineering students' plates...I just couldn't take it. I wasn't Mike Dang enough for that job. (Instead I worked catering, which was more stressful but had more independence and less interaction with students.)

Posted on April 2, 2013 at 5:50 pm 0

On SPENT

Also, outside of major centres, you can't get a job without "reliable transportation" and businesses don't consider the bus reliable transportation, at least not in Midwestern Canada. I know. This game made me so ragey, but on the other hand it reminded me to donate to local orgs, so there's that.

Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:43 pm 0

On "Could You Spare $5?"

@Bill Schoonmaker@twitter You know, if someone handed me a sandwich I'd toss it on the ground too. This whole thing about how beggars should be grateful to get anything is harmful.

Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:06 am 2

On The Business of Streaming Music

Another thing: I want to listen to music again and again, hopefully for a long period of time (decades in some cases). I usually only watch a movie/TV show once or twice, with the exception of Arrested Development, and I prefer not to have a whack of indifferent DVDs cluttering up my bookcases.

Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:02 pm 0

On Our Couches, Ourselves

A couch is the second investment thing you should get after buying a new mattress once you have a decent job. Unless you are of that inscrutable class of people who don't use couches. Or you have a bachelor apartment, in which case a table and chairs is #2.

Posted on February 28, 2013 at 1:59 pm 1