Day 3 and Day 4

I'm typing this right now in my dark room, using what is left of my battery power. Yesterday, I woke up and ate a couple of handfuls of Life Cereal and chugged some juice before I went to class. I managed to make it through class okay, and then I realized I had a ton of homework to do. I needed an energy boost, so I spent some of my last two dollars on caffeine. I needed some caffeine to take the edge off. I got some of my research done and then it was back to my dorm room. I counted out 16 of my crackers and I paced my dorm room while using my crackers to scoop out peanut butter. I swigged some juice and then I started to study, but I ended up with a headache so I crashed instead.
I got up this morning at 7:30 and I had all the best intentions of going to my 8 AM class, but I decided I just didn't feel like it. Plus, I had the homework from last night to finish. I had some more Life Cereal and juice before getting down to work. I went to my 9:30 class and managed to make it through even if I wasn't entirely focused. After class, it was back to preparing for a presentation in my afternoon class. I spent my last dollar on some more caffeine to help me hit my focus zone so I could put my presentation together. I succeeded and I guess my presentation went okay. In the midst of working on my presentation, I had forgotten to take the time to eat some crackers and so my stomach actually started rumbling during class. I didn't mind too much because I knew that after class I was going to be enjoying a Seder meal at the Campus Christian Community.
The costs of spending my last dollars on caffeine meant that I've been using soap from the public bathrooms on campus and that I had to beg some toothpaste from someone else. I knew wasn't going to have the energy to walk down to the Dollar General yesterday to buy anything anyways. Stupid fricking pollen. At least today I'm pretty much over what I hope was the worst of this fun week in Sinus Hell. I won't be able to enjoy any caffeine tomorrow morning, but hopefully I won't need it. I guess I should in theory be pulling an all-nighter tonight to write a paper, but the prospect of attempting an all-nighter without caffeine is not giving me any incentive to work. I wouldn't mind having to go to the lobby on the third floor to work all-night because I'm used to pulling all-nighters to write papers on the third floor. For someone reason, I usually find it impossible to do homework in my room. It's not even because there's the distractions of the TV and all the other stuff in my room; it's more like I have almost no hope of hitting my focus zone if I'm trapped within my room.

More Day 2

After making it through class thanks to the power of various antihistamines, I now have time to write more about this project. I broke down and spent one dollar of my remaining money on some caffeine. I have no clue what this really means for buying other things except that I probably made a bad fiscal decision. Hopefully, I can make it for the rest of the week on my remaining two dollars because I really don't like asking strangers for help. I don't really know why, but I have this strong sense of self-reliance. When I got lost in Italy, I didn't really ask anybody for help, I just wandered around until I found a map or sign post to point me on my way. I only asked somebody for help when I had been walking in the rain for about an hour. I've always been self-reliant to a fault. Probably comes from trying to distinguish myself from my brother combined with my Finnish heritage. I also grew up in a house with two librarians and more or less grew up in a library, so I was encouraged to find things out for myself.
I attempted to walk to the store to buy things like soap and such, but I didn't make it that far before my chest started hurting. I walked back to my room and downed some of the juice I bought. I also enjoyed some of my crackers and peanut butter. I figured out that I can eat 16 crackers with peanut butter twice a day for lunch and dinner. I have my box of Life cereal for breakfast and snack. So far, the hardest part of this project is not being able to use electricity after sundown. I usually enjoy an episode of Stargate or some other show on DVD before going to bed, but I couldn't do that last night. It's not too big of a deal, it just makes me aware of how much the seemingly stupid little things matter so much when you aren't struggling to meet basic needs. I also missed "24" last night which was kind of disappointing as this is the first time I've been able to watch new episodes of "24" on Monday nights. Anyways, I'm kind of rambling in this blog right now to avoid doing homework and working on an assignment that was due today, so I guess that's it for now.

Day 2

It's technically day two of living on two dollars a day, but my first post because last night when I finally had the time to make a post, it was after dark and I was crashing from allergies anyways. I'm lucky that there's free medicine available on campus. I'm still being killed by allergies right now, but in an ironic way it kind of makes this project easier. I'm not really hungry and what I'm eating for meals right now is probably what I would be eating anyways. The not having caffeine is kind of hard because caffeine works really well at getting rid of sinus headaches. I went out yesterday and bought a jar of peanut butter, crackers, a box of Life cereal, and some juice. Right now, I have three dollars left. I bought a toothbrush this morning, so now all I need is to buy some toothpaste , some soap, and maybe shampoo.