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Clearly Broke - I may have debt... but I have no secrets.
Howdy everyone. I am still Clearly Broke, but, as I am currently living in Iceland for a one-month intensive course, the majority of my efforts while be put to the classwork and to updating my dedicated Iceland blog at
http://nightless.net.
Do check it out. Look for me here, though -- I haven't abandoned Orble. And, be sure that this bit in Iceland will wreak some pecuniary havoc that you can all point and laugh at when I work up the nerve to think about it enough to post here.
Whew.
So, I had previously written a post about how great my father is. Well, he's done it again.
He put $200 in my account to get me just-oh-so-over the red, and he also paid the multiple $13 overdraft fees -- which is WAY more than I asked for.
That brings the total for this Friday's Daddy Debt to $400. Jeez.
Again, keep in mind my father lives a comfortably lower middle class (middle middle class?) lifestyle. You all remember the story of the Satan spawn that is driving my tuition.
Anyway.
It's little luxuries like having a father who can manage to loan me money in a jam (by the way, this doesn't usually happen so often) that keep me from whining too much about being so poor. If he weren't able to help I'd be neck deep in shit creek. He keeps me at a more tolerable (though still disconcerting) shin-deep.
By the way, I would still like to write some more metaphysical musings on money for this blog. They're coming.
... Alright. It finally happened. And I found out because a $3 train ticket I tried to buy with my checking card was declined. What a lovely way to start the work day.
I have been wondering what was up with the $600 check I had sent to Iceland for tuition. It had been months now, and it had never posted. So, I began playing the dangerous game of spending into the $600, assuming that my luck would hold and the check would post when I wasn't between paydays.
Wrong.
This is really bad, even for me. I've gone a few dollars in the red, but never TWO HUNDRED.
One thing about being a young adult who strives to live outside their assigned caste is that one can't be too proud to beg. Well, it's about time I'd start begging.
Oh, and though I feel like I'm going to keel over from an ulcer right now...
...is it worth it? Yes.
Would I do it all over again? Yes.
But Jesus! Just look at all those FEES! Why do banks take from you what they know you don't have? "Oh, you're broke. So to punish you, we make you more broke. Bwahaha."
When I needed to finance my first trip to Iceland, I did something I swore I would never do: I sold some of my precious video game collectibles. I suppose when you're in a pinch and need fast cash, selling in one second what took hours of hard work to obtain is one of the few options.
Collecting rare/import/classic video game stuff is probably my biggest hobby (though, of late, lack of time and money has ground it to a mere interest). I would always tell myself "Hey, at least I have my games." Sure, they're petty (pretty!) pieces of plastic to the uninitiated, but what they represent to me is something else altogether
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If you peep my TOKENSPARK blog, you'll see a story of a wondrous frivolity that is grounded by one act of indelible awesomeness.
It's the story of me being stranded in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. And a man whom I'd just met handed me 10.000yen, or about US$86. No questions asked
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In the last post I was angry at Chase for their silly security precautions. Well, I got that straightened out. Here's the payment -- I was $0.57 overlimit! Whew. Another $25 payment made. This week's paycheck is, like, GONE.
>.<;
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