January 18, 2014

Rode the T (21).
+/- 0.00

Ate five tofu tacos that I brought from home, and a specialty cofee from Mason.
+/- 0.00

Received cash from Dinesh (see January 17).
+5.00

Rode the T home (22).
+/- 0.00

January 17, 2014

Rode the bike to school.
+/- 0.00

Watched When Pigs Have Wings and had two beers with the class.
+/- 0.00

Bought one whiskey after Bruno left...
-9.24

...and wanted to tip, but was given a 10 dollar bill for change.  So, I asked who had change.  Dinesh said he had one five, so I traded 5 for 10.
-10.00
+5.00

The five, of course, went straight to the tip.
-5.00

Rode the bike home.
+/- 0.00

January 16, 2014

Rode the bike to and from school.
+/- 0.00

Grabbed a Veggie Planet pizza with Grif and Mason and paid all the cash I had.
-6.00

January 15, 2014

The T (19).
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The T (20).
+/- 0.00

Grabbed a six pack of beers on the way to Grif's house to have dinner.
-7.00

January 14, 2014

Rode the T to school (17th? ride).
+/- 0.00

Got a pizza at Veggie Planet, using mom and dad's gift card...
+/- 0.00

...which was maxed out in the process, at which point I made up the difference...
- 0.98

...and added a little tipperoo.
- 1.00

Grabbed six beers for the movie with Bruno and class.
-8.30

Walked to the T and rode it back home.
+/- 0.00

January 13, 2014

The T to Harvard (16th).
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Rode it home.
+/- 0.00

Walked to the store for a few groceries (to make chapati, kale).
-17.22

Stopped by the Indian market for some turmeric.
-2.50

January 12, 2014

Finally, ate all the food in the house and made a grocery run.  I plan on making: squash soup, potato soup, miso, ramen, kale with white beans, red curry, and eating lots of fruit and salad.
-114.60

January 11, 2014

Bought a couple of books on abebooks.com after an email from a friend with some recommendations.  I bought the following:

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation by Gustavo Gutiérrez
A Common Faith by John Dewey
On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas
Communication and the Evolution of Society by Jürgen Habermas
Faith on the Edge: Religion and Marginalized Existence by Leonardo Boff
Theory and Practice by Jürgen Habermas

-35.80

I also found a Paulo Freire biography by James Kyrilo from 2011, apparently a good read for joining critical theory and liberation theology.  Got it shipped to Harvard Book Store, so free shipping.
-37.13

January 10, 2014

Purchased a gift for a family member online...
-43.00

...and got the thing shipped to the recipient.
-9.00

Washed some clothes...
-4.50

...and washed said clothes.
-1.75

January 9, 2014 (Pappy's 91st)

Rode the T to Harvard from Davis (15th ride).
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Purchased a $10.00 book from the table with all the cash I had on me.  It's a book of photographs from Boston published in 1987.
-7.00 (the rest to be paid when I get cash)

Rode the T back to Davis from Harvard (16th ride).
+/- 0.00

January 8, 2014

Rode the T from Davis to Harvard (13th ride of the month).
+/- 0.00

Went through the gates at Harvard looking for the hat I seem to have lost (14th "ride" this month).
+/- 0.00

Didn't find the hat.  Returned to school until 10 pm.  Rode the T from Harvard to Davis (15th ride this month).
+/- 0.00

January 7, 2014

Rode the T to school (eleventh ride) to school.
+/- 0.00

Class, then back to school on the T (12th).
+/- 0.00

January 6, 2014

Rode the T from Davis to school (my 7th ride).
+/- 0.00

Rode the T from Harvard to Central to eat at Veggie Galaxy (my 8th ride).
+/- 0.00

Ate a wonderful vegan omelet with toast and home fries at Veggie Galaxy.  Paid with a gift card from my lovely parents...
+/- 0.00  (10.91)

...and tipped with aforementioned card as well.
+/- 0.00 (2.50)

Rode the T back from Central to Harvard (number 9).
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Attended a talk by Howard Gardner.
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Rode the T back from Harvard to Davis (number 10!).
+/- 0.00

January 5, 2014

Rode the T twice, to and from school (6 rides total for the month).
+/- 0.00

Didn't spend a damn dime (although I thought about buying Flatland for class, and I also wanted to buy another $10 book from the book table, however I got there a little late and the books were covered).
+/- 0.00

January 4, 2013

Rode the T to school (3rd ride of the month).
+/- 0.00

Saw a good looking book on the book table by HGSE of the artist Saul Steinberg.  It's from a retrospective show of his in 1978 at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC.
-10.00

Bought stamps to send letters and pictures.
-9.20

Couldn't find the Kafka, Cortazar, or Azukawa books I need for class.
+/- 0.00

Rode the T back to Davis Square (4th ride of the month).
+/- 0.00

January 3, 2014

With school closed and 10-15" of snow on the ground, along with tofu scramble from Yvonne, I managed to not spend a dime (or nickel, penny, quarter, dollar) today...
+/- 0.00

...until I remembered that I have to pay shipping and tax on the photos that I ordered from Shutterfly using my prepaid plan.  (247 total prints, 4 wallet prints)
-18.45 (welcome to the US, Texas!)

January 2, 2014

Had to update my Charlie Card for the month of January, which gives me access to MBTA trains and buses for the entire month.  I'll need 35 rides this month to make this worthwhile.
-70.00

Bought a small notebook with lined paper to write letters to family and friends by hand, damnit.  Also, bought a new mechanical pencil with which to write said letters.  I needed it to match my .7 mm lead which I brought up here from Texas.
-13.77

January 1, 2014

I neither gained nor spent a single penny on the first day of 2014.
+/- 0.00