{"id":98,"date":"2005-03-17T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-03-21T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T21:11:26","slug":"money-later-or-experience-now-or-science-now-i-suppose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/98","title":{"rendered":"Money later or experience now? (Or Science Now, I suppose.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

See, I have this $300 voucher through Continental that’s burning a hole in my pocket.<\/p>\n

There’s also the Coachella festival<\/a> next month, and I could fly there free (using my voucher). Then it would merely be the cost of the festival tickets ($150), on-site camping ($40), and food for the weekend. That’s still over $200.<\/p>\n

I promised myself that the trip to Ireland<\/a> was a deal because we were staying with friends and therefore was cheaper than going to Ireland and having to hostel\/hotel\/motel\/Holidae Inn it. I told myself that after that, I would save like a Ctrl+S. This plan, this idea of spending two glorious days in the hot sun listening to music and possibly even maybe hanging out with Sheive<\/a> really sounds like it’s worth at LEAST $200. If you add up the cost of seeing music, plus the cost of finding a climate that is warm, that adds up to $200 already. (For me – I’m full of cabin fever.)<\/p>\n

I’m torn.<\/p>\n

I’m also supposed to be going on a sweet week-long roadtrip<\/a> in July, which would involve a flight out to NYC, then a flight home from Austin. The voucher really could come in handy for that too.<\/p>\n

What does a girl do? I’m planning on, as my library mentor said, “eek out a small living” with my graduate assistantship (which I technically don’t have, and just assume I will have). Saving money now, even $200, might serve me well when I really really want to do more than eat, sleep, poo, and study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See, I have this $300 voucher through Continental that’s burning a hole in my pocket. There’s also the Coachella festival next month, and I could fly there free (using my voucher). Then it would merely be the cost of the festival tickets ($150), on-site camping ($40), and food for the weekend. That’s still over $200. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}