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I have squeezed two weeks’ worth of groceries down to 35 dollars. Of course, I eat lunch everyday on campus and that’s a good 20 bucks a week right there. Anyway, here are some fun things I bought!

3 lbs of walnuts, to go in salads. I forgot the salad. :-(
Olives. My mouth started [...]

So how was your weekend? Good, yes? I’ll tell you about mine.
Friday started out as a total drag. I got out of work late, the office that I turn my timesheet into was closed, and the weather was dusty and windy and hot. Charles and Paul and I had decided to [...]

My friends are being losers right now. One of them especially. It’s hard to make friends in this place anymore; I feel like I’ve already used up my chances. Once I graduate, I think I am going to go far away, preferably to one of the coasts, and try to start a [...]

I got some of the closure on all this friend crap. I was pretty much right about everything– these people just aren’t interested in being good friends anymore. I don’t feel like explaining much of it right now. I feel relieved that I finally know what’s the score is, but I’m depressed [...]

I had some computer problems on Sunday morning (unexpected powerfailure caused XP to freak out and not boot). My CD of XP refused to be read– it looked fine, but it just wouldn’t copy the files. Bitrot smote that cheap disc made with subpar dye. That evening Paul came through for me [...]

Paul has been after me since last Tuesday to find a club and join it. Whether this is because he wants to make sure I have other friends before quietly letting everything go or because he genuinely wishes me to be happy is something I am not sure about, but I’m not going to [...]

I have been more productive in this weekend than I think I have been in the entirety of the past month. I’ve accomplished everything I set out to do. I haven’t been bored through any of it– any time that I could take off from working felt so refreshing that it never got [...]

“But you’re not even 22 yet!” I hear you say. True. It’s just that my body doesn’t work like it once did. If I must hark back to the halcyon days of when I was 15 and 16 I hate to think what I’ll be like when I’m 40. If I [...]

My throat is killing me this morning and my eyes are puffy. No kidding about not being so “young” anymore, eh? I stayed out until 4am last night, but I think the lack of sleep was worth it.
I had tentative plans to hang out with Paul Saturday afternoon and watch a movie. [...]

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Tonight was once again the weekly hour-long meeting with Paul at Fazoli’s. I can never have a simple mood whenever I leave those things– tonight, instead of fragilely elated, I feel happily defeated. One of our topics was where he’d go after graduation. His main choices appear to be Japan to teach [...]

Tonight I saw The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with my parents at the amusingly-named Cinema69. The movie was decent. Not nearly as funny as the book, but perfectly charming in its own right. Zaphod Beeblebox’s voice is close to Bill Clinton’s, which I felt was an appropriately nice touch.
I had forgotten [...]