Needless Spendage
I am pathetically poor right now. It's because I've been spending too much money on booze and loose women. But seriously. I've been buying things that I don't need, like tacos for instance. Finals are almost over I just have this last one, the one I'm supposed to be working on now, and then I'll be done, gloriously done.
People are trying to send me to France. For real, they want me to study abroad there, and while that's all well and good, I'd have to pay like 14,000 dollars to do it. Game over man, game over. That's a little too much for du vin et des baguettes, don't you think?
I have to go take some movies back and then I will probably rent some more, which is another thing that I have been wasting money on when I really don't have it. That reminds me, gas is outrageous. I've been talking about it with my dad and we decided that we are going to become radicals and maybe do something outrageous, if we can stay up past midnight to do it. My dad falls asleep at around 10:00 on the couch, and then I make him get up so I can lay on the couch and fall asleep at 12:00. We would do our outrageous deed at 3:00 or possibly even 4:00, because that's when most gas stations are vulnerable, so it looks like we'll be law-abiding citizens for a bit longer.
There was a spider in my shower last night. I woke up on the couch at 4:00 AM and went upstairs to take a shower and there was a spider in there and I was very upset. I washed it down the drain and put a heavy book over the drain so that it couldn't crawl out again. Did you know that spiders can trap air in the hairs on their bodies and that's why they don't drown like they should? Well, they can. Anyway, the worst of it was, my dad heard me freaking out in the bathroom and he was wondering what could possibly be wrong and he said, and I quote, "I was laying there, wondering what could be wrong and I was laying there and then I fell back asleep." Very reassuring.
People are trying to send me to France. For real, they want me to study abroad there, and while that's all well and good, I'd have to pay like 14,000 dollars to do it. Game over man, game over. That's a little too much for du vin et des baguettes, don't you think?
I have to go take some movies back and then I will probably rent some more, which is another thing that I have been wasting money on when I really don't have it. That reminds me, gas is outrageous. I've been talking about it with my dad and we decided that we are going to become radicals and maybe do something outrageous, if we can stay up past midnight to do it. My dad falls asleep at around 10:00 on the couch, and then I make him get up so I can lay on the couch and fall asleep at 12:00. We would do our outrageous deed at 3:00 or possibly even 4:00, because that's when most gas stations are vulnerable, so it looks like we'll be law-abiding citizens for a bit longer.
There was a spider in my shower last night. I woke up on the couch at 4:00 AM and went upstairs to take a shower and there was a spider in there and I was very upset. I washed it down the drain and put a heavy book over the drain so that it couldn't crawl out again. Did you know that spiders can trap air in the hairs on their bodies and that's why they don't drown like they should? Well, they can. Anyway, the worst of it was, my dad heard me freaking out in the bathroom and he was wondering what could possibly be wrong and he said, and I quote, "I was laying there, wondering what could be wrong and I was laying there and then I fell back asleep." Very reassuring.
posted by Booder at 7:51 PM
8 Comments:
well done. it's almost like i'm with you listening to a pointless story. this blog does a great job recreating what it's like to be your friend. also, i think you need me to teach you how to handle your money. i'm awesome at it. basically it involves never spending money on anything and getting as much as you can for free from friends and family.
i'm on the side of "spend it" because 1) i've tried to join the dark side and not spend money and i failed miserably and 2) it's no fun. also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with mooching. it's a true art form that requires experience and taste.
and i'm not saying all poetry sucks. i'm just saying that it doesn't interest me and jonAthan, "Catch-22" is probably the greatest work of fiction of all time. definitely not "The Da-Vinci Code."
poetry is worthless and stupid. it's kinda funny too cause i'm really good at it, but who needs it. i sort of agree with rich that fiction is pretty dumb. if listening to the radio is better than watching tv and reading a book is better than listening to the radio then why isn't daydreaming and just sitting around imagining stuff better than reading a book? it doesn't make any sense. i'd rather imagine my own nonsense then have someone write a whole book about it. if i'm gonna bother reading something i want it to be real and for me to actually learn something. i don't care about some crap that someone just made up in their head, i can do that myself.
and i'd also like to make the arguement that i'm actually not cheap, i just think everything people spend their money on is a rip off. i love golf but i'm not gonna pay more than $20 to do it, it's just not worth that much to me. and eating out is the same way. i can get my food that taste better, cost less, comes faster and i have something to do besides sit there and wait for it if i would just eat at home. so why would i want to drive to a building and sit around a bunch of strangers while i wait for some waitress to keep refilling my pop. to me that just seems stupid. and the same goes for most clothes/cars/entertainment/and just basically everything that is sold and marketed as necessities in our wonderful capitalistic society. people are stupid and easily fooled into thinking they need all this stuff but i look at poor people in other countries and can just be happy with a lot less. the funny thing about that is if people were as samrt as me and didn't waste money on luxuries then our economy would fall apart. so i guess you can put them in the same category as the people that wear black trench coats and nail polish- you know they're retarded but they show you how much better you are.
i hate to use cliched stuff like "we have it so good" and "there are poor people every where" or "that's what society says to do" (also, i never said anything about africa- the worst continent ever) and i didn't mean it like that but we are in the top 95% richest people in the world and i hate the excess and luxeries that people see as so regular. that's all i mean. i'm trying not to use the same excuse as a fat chick crying at home saying that magazines tell her she needs to be thin. common sense should tell her that but you have to admit when something becomes popular and everyone gets one and they can't imagine how they ever lived without it (i.e. cell phones, hd/flat panel tvs, mp3 players, etc.) then you almost feel like you have to have one too. i realize it's a want and not a need but all that stuff adds up and it just becomes a bunch of luxeries that we eventually spend thousands of dollars on but when you stripe it down to what we could live comfortably with and how much we should give it all seems so stupid. plus, it's never as great as they say. cell phones are unrealiable, the shows on tv are really lame, you have to pay a dollar for downloading songs and so on and so forth. it just seems like such a waste of money. especially when it could go towards paying your student loans or mortgage.
i really do hate cliches. i regularly get mad at andrea if i hear her use them.
traever, you sound like sid vicious. i have a copy of a 1977 vicious interview and he says almost exactly what you said, about money and fiction, only with lots of swearing.
i do disagree with you about fiction though.
sid viscious was not a good bass player. but i guess i'm not either. the pistols showed they were all about image and not rock when they had him. also, he was kind of an idiot.
jon, your right on the poor people not knowing what they are missing and also on rich non-christians being unhappy/poor christians being content. i think the same thing there. that's why i'd rather donate more of my money on spreading the gospel than giving people better stuff. but the food and shelter is needed sometimes.
sid vicious was an awful bass player, just like johnny rotten couldn't really sing, but they had something. not sure what but it was kind of cool.
That was pretty much the sweetest comment thread ever.
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