September 2010

Scraping by on $110,000?

September 4, 2010

Over at Everyday Tips and Thoughts, proprietor Kris expresses some shock at the idea that a family profiled on CNN Money might not be able to live on $110,000. Particularly startling is the way CNN frames the decision the couple contemplates: whether to have the mother drop to half time, at a salary of $32,600, [...]

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w00t! Murphy’s Law frenzy is over!

September 3, 2010

…I hope! Just talked to one honey-voiced Roselyn at Social Security. About what happens when you commit the crime of earning more than $14,160, she told me an entirely different story from the one I’ve heard from three prior CSRs. Three people at Social Security—one face-to-face and two over the phone—said that if you earn [...]

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UNbelievable!

September 3, 2010

Well, I probably won’t be writing much here for the next week or so. You’ll recall that I spent half the g.d. summer creating an elaborate online course in magazine writing for the college. Since I was paid to do so, I worked pretty hard at it; the job occupied end-to-end seven-day weeks of 14- [...]

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Moment of Fame

September 2, 2010

This week Funny didn’t enter any carnivals, the proprietor having been somewhat overwhelmed with quotidian concerns. However, a new carnival with a somewhat slower-than-usual calendar picked up a post I sent in two or three weeks ago: The Bellringers Education Buzz Student Performance: Is There Any Question? This is an interesting carnival. If you’d like [...]

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The Summer of Murphy’s Law

September 1, 2010

Going into this summer, the longest period I’ve ever faced without enough income to make ends meet, a thought entered my little pea brain: If anything can go wrong, this is the time it will go wrong. Expensively wrong. It’s Funny’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will always go wrong [...]

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