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[fianasylph]

 Arg.  I hate budgeting.  But you have to do it.  Just when you factor out all your daily expenses (rent, travel, car insurance, kung fu), it seems you are left with such a paltry daily sum of available money which i often spend over.  Granted, I just as often spend much less, but still.  I guess I'm mostly still smarting for the large sum I had to

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[prometheisbound]

Takoma to NE and back during rush hours is not cheap. People usually don't believe me when I tell them how much it is.

[symbot]

I've been reading around this generational thing recently, just because I ran across a reference to it... I haven't read the book, but apparently this one: Generation Me is one of the core pop-sociology books criticizing the new generation right now.

Like I said, I haven't read it, but I HAVE been reading its comprehensive refutation. It's here: http://www.youthfacts.org/twenge.html and it's pretty encouraging.

[vigilantics]

Y'know in the last year or so I've actually read a lot of good (or at least neutral but interesting) things about our generation: that we're highly relational, defining ourselves based on our connections to others; that we're innovative, quick learners, and eager to accept new things; that we reject authority and tradition, not out of defiance, but because we can see a better way.

Hmm.. a twenty-minute attempt to find all these complimentary sources has turned up only this . It's Penelope Trunk, writing about how we Gen Y'ers are going to totally pwn workplace norms, and it's going to be awesome.

[fianasylph]

Jesse found this, which is a specific response to the book "generation me", which is one of the more egregious offenders in terms of bashing our generation:

http://www.youthfacts.org/twenge.html

its a pretty good response