I feel that I spend most of my time counting out things. Figuring out if I will have enough groceries, enough gas, enough toilet paper for this week. Counting how many more days until the next paycheck. Determining how many bills I can pay this week.
It's not that I'm completely broke, just a bit behind. I put out a great deal of money for my conference trip back in January, and have been waiting for my reimbursement. Working for a state college, I should be used to waiting for money. The state is sort of like that friend who borrows money and then pays you back - eventually (I had a friend who was looking into a hefty reimbursement that was about 4 weeks overdue, and was told by the college's person in accounts payable that they would "get around to it...sometime.")
Fortunately, though, I have sharpened this skill of juggling payments, of knowing what I can put off, of making things last. I'll live on pasta for a couple of days, and won't drive far. After all, it shouldn't be too much longer, right?
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