Makes sense. I guess people like you must be outweighed by the kind of people who genuinely think that "don't go to Starbucks every morning for your coffee" is a useful life tip.
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The *leadup* to Christmas is good for us. People are feeling generous: they take their families out to dinner, they tip their delivery drivers.
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I don't--knock on wood--expect we're in any *acute* danger. Brother has quite a lot of savings: he'll have no trouble keeping up his usual level of contribution to the communal fund, and I think he'd be willing to chip in extra if the rest of us get desperate enough.
(On the bright side, I can spend some of that extra free time studying, and get that much closer to my diploma. But that's a rather abstract comfort: while my future *is* actually looking pretty bright, it's...it's like when you're walking toward a mountain, and intellectually you know that every step toward it must bring you one step closer because that's how distance works, but it doesn't *look* any closer.)
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The *leadup* to Christmas is good for us. People are feeling generous: they take their families out to dinner, they tip their delivery drivers.
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I don't--knock on wood--expect we're in any *acute* danger. Brother has quite a lot of savings: he'll have no trouble keeping up his usual level of contribution to the communal fund, and I think he'd be willing to chip in extra if the rest of us get desperate enough.
But it still sucks to see progress on the List slip further away.
(On the bright side, I can spend some of that extra free time studying, and get that much closer to my diploma. But that's a rather abstract comfort: while my future *is* actually looking pretty bright, it's...it's like when you're walking toward a mountain, and intellectually you know that every step toward it must bring you one step closer because that's how distance works, but it doesn't *look* any closer.)