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Debt is not sexy
Remember that spontaneous trip to New York I took for President’s Day weekend last month? I just got my credit card bill and it’s starting to hurt.
Besides the $145 phone bill (which I have no excuse for considering domestic calling), I dropped some major change on travel (try two pairs of plane tickets and five bus tickets). I don’t even want to examine my Restaurant Week damage. Two meals at OM and dinner at 33 were $100+ in one week alone. Plus, I’ve been grabbing Thai and sushi all the time. Definitely no more meals out in Cambridge.
Thank god for the money I’ve been making on freelance assignments. If I can get my ass in gear, I’ll be earning about $800/month, which combined with allowance, will barely pay rent in New York this summer.
Then again, I’m living with someone who’s about as low-maintenance as a BMW. This girl says she’s “cool with anything.” As long as we don’t live in Brooklyn. Or on a lower floor. Or share bedrooms. Or pet-sit.
Right.
If we’re going to make our two-bedroom arrangement work on an intern’s budget, we’re either living in Brooklyn or I’m going to have to sell my panties.
Buyers?
March 14th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Check out the International House of New York. I think the URL is ihouse-nyc.org. I lived there when I was interning and it’s a lot of fun.
March 15th, 2007 at 2:42 am
thank god there’s another college student writing a sex blog out there!
weirdly, i was beginning to think that i was the only one.
you’re a lot braver than i am, though — “coming out” like this.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:43 am
wtf? Brooklyn is the hippest part of New York. Has she never heard of Williamsburg?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg,_Brooklyn
March 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
attractive women are so lucky having the ability to sell panties to avoid financial hardship.
who would want to buy some guy’s crusty stinking boxers?!
March 15th, 2007 at 10:52 am
actually… don’t answer that
March 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am
PS. I know you are just kidding about the panty selling, but here’s a really interesting article about the realities of doing stuff like that: http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n1/htdocs/work.php?country=us
Warning: It’s gross.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
How much do you pull in from freelance assignments?
March 15th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
A. Angel… are you serious? This website’s been around for Internet-eons. And there’s my blog. And Columbia sex blogger Kiss and Tell Kate. And Miriam Dastovsky. And… well, I could go on.
Know what you mean about the debt, honey. Life gets expensive. It’d be awesome to live together but ultimately you need to find what’s right for you and your price range.
March 15th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Jess I love you. Because Elle loves you. And I am a not just the President and Founder of the “I Love People Who Love Elle” club. I’m also a member.
March 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
speaking of debt,
happy belated steak and blowjob day!
. . . don’t ask me how that’s related.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:18 am
jgh, you’re hardly a sex blogger.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
tips: Williamsburg! Cheap(ish) and cool! and If you can find a place in park slope or the surrounding areas, you’d be a lucky duck. Plus, college kids rent out their places to other college kids in the summer. yay craigslist.
But seriously, your roomie doesnt know what she’s missing. Brooklyn is great.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
There are more outer boroughs than Brooklyn. In Queens, at least check out Woodside, Forest Hills, and Astoria.
March 16th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
MM — just because I don’t write about MY sex life doesn’t mean I’m a sex blogger. Lena and I do different things with our writing — she’s the (excellent) memoirist, I comment.
March 16th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
*or not a sex blogger, rather. But I guess you could argue that’s a Freudian slip! :-P
March 16th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
But well?
March 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
you know, it seems like i just have been e-hanging-out with an older crowd… most of the people i correspond with seem to be in their thirties or forties, with a couple notable exceptions.
i’ll definitely check out the people you mentioned, though.
March 17th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
“Well” is subjective. It’s clear you don’t think “well” of my work, and you’re certainly entitled to your opinion!
March 19th, 2007 at 12:21 am
If you’re serious in the panties thing, I’d be willing to offer some serious cash.
H’08