I have a new room with Max in a shared apartment. It is small, with a loft that makes it like two tiny rooms. I am up on the loft where the three tiny screenless windows are. Even when I keep them closed, a couple mosquitoes come in at night, which really sucks. It is a bit sticky even on moderately cool days so I imagine it will be an intolerable sweatbox on real hot summer days, which could happen any time. The rent, which we're splitting, is US$300 a month. The landlord, turns out, actually lives here, so I still feel like a guest in someone else's home. He has forced me to buy new laundry soap because the one I had didn't say 'matic' on it. Also, we don't feel comfortable drying our clothes in the common area because of him. Cleaning ladies come twice a week. We have to find a new place next month because this is untenable. Still, this is the first time since we left Boston in February that I've arrived someplace knowing I'll be able to stay there for a whole month (and actually only the second time I will live in the same house for that long).
In October I made about $430 working at the English camps; same in November. Even though I didn't have a place in November, I still managed to spend $180 in cash and $100 more on my credit card. The rest of my October wages just went to rent, hopefully Max is getting paid tomorrow because we have about $10 in cash. Max could use his ATM card if we needed it; I can't because mine was stolen and I haven't activated the replacement yet. Fortunately or not, I can shop at chain groceries with my credit card. I can also shop at Burger King with my credit card, which is disgusting and I only did it twice.
Having just paid the minimum US$15 on my credit card, my current balance is $290 while the positive balance in my checking account is $405, so I am technically in the black still, though it's starting to scrape. I have to pay $100 for my replacement passport, for which I finally have all the documentation ready. But I am still going to collect November wages of $430, so I guess I'm not too hard up.
Most of my purchases in November were impulse food buys, which are unhealthy in so many ways. I realized two days ago, when the only thing I could buy was food, because I only had a credit card, that I felt like food was my only creative outlet. I wanted to cook because I didn't have anything else to do; and I wanted to eat so I wouldn't have to think about how I didn't have anything else to do.
Anyways, now I do have something else to do. Starting tomorrow I'm editing English grammar in math textbook solutions full time. My new boss asked me to call him first, so that he could tell me that at my interview I appeared 'extremely disheveled' and 'some of the girls noticed' my body odor. I guess he didn't notice my new, $60 shoes I bought specifically for the purpose of not looking extremely disheveled. Anyways, for $580 a month, I'll shower before going in, but I will not spray chemicals under my arms, sorry.
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