Just a little (link) love: helpful doggy edition
September 26, 2019
I adore Maggie’s latest coloring book: Pixel Museum Art!
Jonathan at My Money Blog on college tuition. I’ve been thinking about this a lot as a function of our overall budget and what we should save and why.
My car incident over the weekend that’s going to cost money when I am already feeling squeeze is making me feel this post extra hard. We COULD dig into our savings and not live so lean but we do that for a very good reason and it’s worth sticking to that reason. It is. Remember that, self.
I’ve read quite a few FinCon recaps but OFG’s resonated most with me. Not a surprise, is it? It reminds me that I loved the two FinCons I went to because I got to connect with people I only know online the rest of the year and that the money part is actually just a bonus. That’s harder to see in lean years like this one where we don’t have much wiggle room in the budget to afford, basically, a mini vacation for me.
Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture. Obviously, I use gender neutral pronouns here for JB and I like that it pushes me to change my socially instilled default gender mentally from him or her to gender neutral and to reduce my assumptions of gender outside of this blog. I know it bothered at least one blog reader enough to snark at me about it but I’m sticking to it.
Beyonce’s Homecoming and the Emmy snubs. I don’t claim to understand the Emmys but how does James Corden’s light and amusing car show (which is a lot of fun) win over Beyonce’s intense Homecoming? I’ll never understand.
How To Lose A Third Of A Million Dollars Without Really Trying. I’ve not yet tried to break into publishing but I’ve got a lot of questions after reading this.
How does an actual agent not teach their clients the very basic things about what an advance is, how earning out works, and how does one land an advance of that size and not ask a lot of questions to be sure you know what’s happening and why? It felt like this was very much like lottery winnings going down the drain.
Helpful doggy
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— Dogs are the best people (@_TheBestDogs) September 19, 2019
That college tuition article is making me more sanguine about DC1’s chances to get into DH’s alma mater even if he gets a B in English this semester. I feel guilty about that…
I remember disliking the kids-of-alumni social club at my university. It felt like being left out of an artificial elitism. But it is a great school and they do have extra scholarship funds available for alumni kids (alumnus? aluminium? whatever) so depending on what my kids are interested in, some of them could end up going there. Which I feel both happy and squicky about.
That makes me think about how I didn’t go to one that was prestigious enough (it was even recently gently panned in a novel that a friend wrote) that would have one of those social clubs, but it was affordable! š I hope it stays that way.
I understand. But I think .. well. It’s what’s going on and feeling bad about it won’t change anything?
I was actually surprised by how much fun I had at FinCon. There were so many interesting and amazing people to meet and chat with.
I’m so glad you had all the fun!