Since the end of this past semester, I have been (barely) living off of the remnants of my student loan and the $1000 Grandma gave me at Christmas. Drew pays the rent and supplies 99.99% of the food. I have a few bills (satellite tv, internet, phone, credit cards) that I'm responsible for. Unfortunately, a couple weeks ago the remnants ran out and I had to get creative.

Because I can't seem to schedule a part-time job around my MCAT classes and all the studying I have to do for this stupid test, I had to find a new way to make the minimum payment on my credit card (the other bills are all being charged to the card and my car insurance has been dropped because they wouldn't take a credit card payment). I've been working on this problem with the following 3-point strategy:

1. Getting reimbursed for the travel expenses for the Nat'l Healthcare for the Homeless Conference I went to last month. This is totally legitimate and should actually cover half of the July minimum payment.

2. Buying a plane ticket to my friend's wedding on my credit card and getting my mom to pay me back in cash. She offered. Honest. That should cover the August payment.

3. (This is where I start seeming more creepy than desperate and sad). I'm a mentor. Twice a month I take this 10yo boy out to a movie or to a museum. We were told we could go to one big event, and so last week I took him to Universal Studios. I paid with my credit card and will use my reimbursement to take care of the other half of the July payment.

#3 isn't totally creepy, because I'm not the one who suggested Universal Studios. I did feel a bit guilty, though, when the woman who runs the program sent me a friendly email asking me to calm down with the expenditures until their next grant comes through. I think it was actually the $50 for videogames and pizza three weeks ago that she objected to.

Whew. Okay. I feel a little less guilty now that I've told you that. You who probably won't read this for weeks since I'm such a sporadic poster. Hopefully by the time you're actually looking at this I will have taken the MCAT and will be working and paying bills like a regular adult person.