Mark is in the process of locating a new job with a university-affiliated temp agency. I, meanwhile, have started my fourth job in four months. He continues to work part time at a tutoring center.
We whittled our money supply to nil exactly last week. Then I got paid and he got paid. But, as soon as we pay our [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 31, 2009
The charms of being broke abound
March 29, 2009
Free: training schedules. And how idiots work out
For the last three weeks I’ve been attempting to keep up with the “intemediate” training schedule I found on Hal Higdon’s Web site for the Ravenswood 5K I signed up for with a friend. Hal Higdon is a runner and author, and he puts training schedules for free on his Web site. I found his [...]
March 25, 2009
Fact: We are a couple of fuggin idiots. Update
Fact: Drained account to the zero mark exactly
Fact: Mark deposited first paycheck since November.
Fact: $137 to last until Friday.
Fact: It’s Wednesday
Fact: Paid Friday
Fact: We are BINKS. Barely have Income, No Kids, but we remain afloat despite the fact we’re idiots. Thank you Ye Comptroller.
March 25, 2009
Plea to Ye Comptroller of the Cosmos: don’t frack us over
Ye Comptroller of the Cosmos, please don’t do that thing you sometimes do when you’re generous and sadistic at once. ‘Cuz my husband and I just cancelled our health insurance due to being broke. And I got a new job. And he might get a new job. So I’m just sayin’, don’t frack us over and [...]
March 25, 2009
Balls flying at my nose
On the train this morning a line from the ‘95 teen classic Clueless popped into my head:
Amber: Miss Stoeger, my plastic surgeon doesn’t want me doing any activity where balls fly at my nose.
Dionne: Well, there goes your social life.
Yeah, because I was sitting down on the train, and there were three men infront of me. Facing me. [...]
March 24, 2009
A watched blog never Googles
How the heck long does it take, bloggers of the world, for Google to index your site? I’m getting impatient.
Just wonderin’.
March 24, 2009
Fact: We are a couple of frackin idiots
Fact: We’ are a couple of idiots.
Fact: Our account is negative
Fact: On the phone with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Can’t afford health insurance. Deducted $189 the day I signed up, but takes a month for approval. Fuck them. Fuck privatized health care.
Fact: Got news of new job last week.
Fact: Spring weather plus new job news lead [...]
March 23, 2009
Privatization of Chicago parking meters. And a future interview with The Parking Ticket Geek of The Expired Meter
My blood is boiling.
King Daley and his rubber stamp wielding alder-thiefs are running amok like never before. Chicagoans hear my battle cry.
What’s got me all riled like no ones biz-nass is the clumsy recent transfer of Chicago parking meters into private hands, coupled with the quadrupled rates. Talk about sticker shock. This is beyond an affront to frugality. It’s a [...]
March 23, 2009
Deal gittin’ T-shirt sale. $5 T-shirts from an innovative Chicago company
My colleague and I like to discuss deal gittin’. Being chatty, I’ve found, is how you find out about the best deals. She told me about T-shirt company Threadless. First of all, it’s an innovative Chicago-based online retailer. Secondly, they are having a $5 T-shirt sale through March 30th. I’m on a budget diet and can’t buy, but [...]
March 23, 2009
Scandalously free: Stalking Blago the Chipmunk
We all remember when Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (that’s Bla-goy-ya-vich) revealed himself to the world as a son of a bitch. He happens to live in Chicago. He happens to live at Sunnyside and Sacramento, about a mile and a half from my humble apartment.
Big Hair Blago was arrested on federal corruption charges in December, involving the attempt to sell the seat [...]
