2 Dollars a Day

Tuesday was the first day I started to really feel hungry.  I have also noticed now the number of small meals that are eaten throughout the day that I usually take for granted.  I’ve also noticed how much my friends talk to me about food.

I have limited myself to one meal a day, but it is usually a filling meal of bread, peanut butter, and jelly.  At 5PM on Tuesday, I decided I would help pass the time by reading a book due next week for my history class but by about 15 pages in, I could not concentrate at all and walked back from the park to go eat my dinner meal, but a but earlier than I had wanted.

The days feel much longer when I cannot go do anything.  I normally work 4 days a week but I cut it down for this week for the sake of staying close to 2 dollars a day.  I also would normally take a quick drive and grab something to eat for lunch like subway, or maybe drive to funland and hit in the batting cages.  Now, all I have is books which I can’t really concentrate on, schoolwork, and my computer for certain parts of the day.

Tonight is the dinner discussion, I will bring my backpack loaded with about 16 library books to return so I can kill two birds with one stone.  After that, I will spend my first, and maybe my only night in the shantytown.  I have class with Professor Humphrey at 8AM and considering I had an issue with my alarm on Tuesday morning, I should make it in plenty of time because I might not sleep at all.

So I’ve been living on two dollars a day for two days now.  The first wasn’t so bad except for the fact that I think I have poorly proportioned my food for the week.  With my 10 dollars, I decided to base my meals off of peanut butter, bread, and jelly but I used too much the first day so I will be light on my final days.

I also had my only work day during this challenge week on Monday and that presented a whole new set of temptations.  I work at Qdoba, a restaurant in central park, and was forced to handle food the entire 7 hour shift while not being able to eat any of it.  I also couldn’t drink any of the drinks I usually receive for free at work which ultimately made the day feel quite long.

Today, I don’t have too many things to do but everything I do ends at sun down anyways.  Wednesday will be a pretty busy day and I will spend the night in the shantytown, so Thursday morning should be an interesting blog.

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