Stuff I wrote down while working at the lake (LONG)

This weekend I've done pretty well for myself. Just worked Friday and Saturday. 8 hours on Friday 12.5 on Saturday. That means I have 4.5 hours overtime! Weee! Overtime is a good thing since it's paid at 12 dollars an hour instead of 8. This put me at 182 dollars before taxes this weekend! And that doesn't count food! I'll get 9 dollars for breakfast saturday, 12 for lunch saturday, maybe 20 for dinner saturday, and 20 for dinner friday and 12 for lunch friday. I also get 5 dollars for personal expenses. That makes 78 dollars for food. (I probably spent around 20-30 though) I also get $0.48 per mile. I figure I'll have about 350 miles so that makes 168 there. Some of that has to go towards gas. I probably spent 40 dollars in gas on this trip. But all in all it's been a pretty profitable weekend.

Another example of my partner's slowness. I mentioned that since we now get the money if we spend it or not... that we eat a bit cheaper. He told me that was stupid and that eating cheaper wouldn't give us more profit for the trip. He knows the math and everything... he just doesn't see things the same way I do. He has this very negative view of people who work for money. He seems to think that people should work because they want to and for that reason only. He says people who work for money are always and will always be unhappy. He has this weird opinion that working for the money means you will by default not like the job. I disagree. I think one can work for money and still enjoy the job. I like my job most of the time, but I still work very much for the money. If I wasn't getting paid, I would definately work less hours. It can be broken down into economic terms. My opportunity cost ends up being greater than the value of working if working does not pay. I'd work 10 hours a week, but not more. And I definately wouldn't give up my weekends if I wasn't getting paid. A job would have to be REALLY great for me to give up extensive amounts of my spare time with little or no pay. I could be doing homework, sitting in a warm apartment, being able to have time to meet with friends, party, and talk to David. I think this theory of his is really silly! I think it's just so that he can look down on those who have jobs that the only reason they'd do them is for the money. I can find satisfaction in doing any job well, no matter how silly or simple.

My Swedish isn't coming along very well. I've been so busy writing papers, doing research, working, etc that I havn't even typed up any more verb lists. Maybe I'll finish up the F list tonight. I need to clean my apartment tonight too. My mom will be here around 9.30 or 10 tomorrow morning. I want to have the house as picked up as possible so that we can just spend an hour max getting it into shape. I want my room to be pretty picked up too. That way as much of the mess as possible can be blamed on my roommate.

I'm jealous that David has so much freetime. He has the time and money to do things like party. I wonder how much my living in Sweden will hurt that. I won't be able to party with him next year. I won't have the money. I don't want to force him to stay home out of guilt that I can't go out. I also don't want any of my friends or him to pay for things for me. If I'm going to survive, I'm going to do it on my own or with the help of my family. The last thing I want to be to David is a burden. I guess that's part of why I work so hard right now. I worry that next year I'll be a burden to him. It's a silly thought because if anything, I'll be helping him. I'll take some of the bills and rent away from him and pay a share. This will cut his rent and electricity and such to 66% of what it is now. Or something like that. I figure he and Jenny can figure out what's going on. I won't pay more than 1/3 of the rent and bills myself. But if they think I'm using less than a third of the space or something, I'm certainly willing to pay less than a third of the rent! *laugh* But I think I should pay 1/3. It will make Jenny like me a bit more. This is always good. I don't want Jenny to be upset that David brings some other person into the house! She seems much more resonable than that!

This is stuff that was probably designed to be more than one entry. But I combined everything I wrote while out at the lake, everything I thought about, and put one entry together for it. Saves space? *laugh*