I intend to use every darned inch of this journal.\u00a0 I have these last two-point-five empty blank pages left before the whole thing is full.\u00a0 Waste not want not.\u00a0 Be frugal.\u00a0 Be careful.\u00a0 Check the balance.\u00a0 Watch out, especially with your money.\u00a0 And time is money and buying a fresh new journal is money, speaking of which (what an odd convolution: speaking of which) this journal is the first I’ve used in years that I went to\u00a0go buy, go bye the bye, bye, bye.\u00a0 I spent three thirty-nine or something for this which price, while buying it, felt expensive, expansive, expatriate (I bought it on a sojourn in a strange, foreign land, Chicago).\u00a0 That’s actually cheap-cheap for the therapy it gives me, cheep-cheep for a medium (an artist’s, not a spiritualist).\u00a0\u00a0I don’t use\u00a0expensive paints and canvases or clay, cloy, claw, or fabrics (I should swath my writing room in textiles, apt decoration to accompany writing words, righting text) or fancy camera with schmantzy lenses, or a piano or violin or mandolin or any other music ano or lin or media, but just a writer’s notebook.\u00a0\u00a0Yet I was still left with my thoughts, my own textiles running through my brain (sane?) the cost the cost, be careful.\u00a0 Sorry hon, sorry kids, sorry dad and mom, sorry all and sundry, I spent three-thirty-nine (or was it three fifty-nine) on this journal.\u00a0 First entry March twenty-nine, last entry four days for daze, fore dais-ey shy (my, my, my) of three months.\u00a0 I s’pose a buck fifteen a month ain’t too bad, no not too bad, fairly frugal, friggin’ frugal, frighteningly frugal.\u00a0 Couldah spent thirty bucks on a schmantzier version, still wouldah, couldah, shouldah been thirty cents a day, sense\u00a0a \u00a0day,\u00a0scents a-day.\u00a0 Even a hundred\u00a0buck journal, a dollar a day, a dollop a day.\u00a0 Hey, hey.\u00a0 Three-thirty-nine?\u00a0 You kiddin?\u00a0 That’s fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I intend to use every darned inch of this journal.\u00a0 I have these last two-point-five empty blank pages left before the whole thing is full.\u00a0 Waste not want not.\u00a0 Be frugal.\u00a0 Be careful.\u00a0 Check the balance.\u00a0 Watch out, especially with … Continue reading