archives for Monday 9 October 2006

some sums

Monday 9 October 2006 | I like a cookie

• rent 550 gas/electric 35 water/sewage/refuse 36 local/long distance 49 broadband 42 total cost of being housed and utilitied: $712/month individual therapy 300 skills training group 160 psychiatry 55-120 medication 20+ (mostly samples at present) credit debt from the Lost Year 54 total cost of being mentally interesting: $589-654/month • And, my mom is paying [...]

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literary news (that hasn’t stayed news)

Monday 9 October 2006 | I like a cookie

However did I miss making merciless fun of this? Apparently last June, Ms. Oprah Winfrey announced rapturously to her startled book club members that they would embark upon A Summer of Faulkner; I tooled around all over Dear Internet trying to find out how the 600,000 faithful readers fared, having slogged through three months of [...]

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