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I think I fell off the wagon there for a few days, but I am back aboard now.  Yee haw.

So what have I been up to? I have been pinching pennies, and I have been pinching them so hard. It is just like with children; if you don’t leave a red mark then they haven’t learned their lesson yet. Let me just say, those pennies have learned their lesson. They won’t be getting spent any time soon.

So with all my misering it has felt kind of odd lately to work for a developer that makes $750,000 apartments. Shit, that is more than my family’s house costs, and we have a pretty nice house. I could never in my life afford to live in one of those apartments. And even then they are in areas where people get shot at night. So I have been feeling somewhat out of place while doing my secretary gig and calling rich builders and talking to people who can afford ridiculously expensive housing. Maybe there is some Marxism going on here, like alienation from the product or whatever, except I don’t produce anything and I just dicker around half the time.

Like today I was eating free chocolates at the front desk and this property management dude came in and I was still chewing. I wanted to say hello but it came out like “momf momf momf” and needless to say he couldn’t really understand me.

But! At least the city of San Francisco gets me, and all the other not rich folks. Apparentely there has been a huge lack of affordable housing because all the recent developments have only been built for higher income buyers so the developers can get the moneys. In order to curb this overflow of richass condos in areas where no one can afford them, the planning commission has become stricter in what they will allow. Now even the fancy pants developments have to make several of their units affordable (below market rate). So, while this potentially sucks for my employer, it is good news for me. The only problem is trying to pretend at work that the company’s best interest in my own.

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