Let’s Push Things Forward
Jul 27, 2003 keepingItTogether
As many of you may know, I have recently been very restless about my current position in life. Music is moving surely but VERY VERY slowly. My apartment situation has been less than pleasing, but I am attempting to remedy this situation by throwing money at it.
Money. The abstract idea that exists mostly in bank mainframes, and yet somehow runs the world, determining what I can do and when I can do it. This brings me to the problem of making more money, the most insidious catch-22 known to modern man.
I have a job now. If I lived in Iowa, for example, the money I make now would be a lot. I would have enough to buy the things I need AND the things I want. I would be able to save, and I would probably never get that drowning feeling I get right about the last week of the month when I know my next paycheck is going to cover my rent and only my rent. However, I live in New York, a city with one of the highest costs of living in the world, even for a solitude-craving, non-drinking, tuna-salad-eating, penny-pincher-not-by-choice-but-by-necessity like myself, and so none of these things are true. This begs the question: why not find a new job?
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What We Eat
Jun 29, 2003 food, keepingItTogether
In keeping with the previous post, I’ve decided to examine my own terrible eating habits and see how they can be improved. Cooking at home is the focus here. My question to all, rather, both of my loyal readers is:
What do you eat at home? Descriptions of complete meals, general concepts, which ingredients you buy at the supermarket, recipes – all of these are welcome here.
I’ll kick it off. Cereal for breakfast. Most common dinner options: couscous, tofu marinated with soy-sauce-ginger-honey, tuna salad, assorted canned soups and meals, hamburgers. Favorite ingredients: tofu, broccoli, scallions, string beans, sesame oil, chicken breast, soy yogurt, Grape Nuts 
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So who’s gonna bite?
