because i buy a pack of cigarettes a day (which i'm trying not to do, i swear i'm trying to quit), i go to concerts (ani difranco is in two weeks), and i go back and forth between columbia and kansas city, and columbia and st. louis. plus i do go to bars but i don't like to admit that. and i buy clothes and magazines and cds. i'm not SHORT on cash, i'd be fine without it. i just prefer to have some extra.

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that made me laugh.

*drinks 11th beer*

March 2nd- Kansas City- Evos
March 7th- St. Louis- Goodlife@the red sea (possible tag set tho likely just a regular set)
March 16th + 17th- Kansas City- Bass-x

Do you have a fake ID? How do you get in?

You seem more and more ignorant all the time.

Many college students don't get bi-monthly checks from their parents, and they still have to pay for their own tuition and books. And as far as donating blood / plasma goes, I really don't believe in selling blood that easily could save someones life. I'd much rather stick to someplace like the Red Cross.

David

i was just yanking your chain!

shandi - columbia is a very lax drinking town. the campus is dry but as soon as you go downtown... i always go to the music cafe, where you don't need an id of any sort and i can sit at the bar and drink WITH the bartender. at one of the clubs, you can have an id w/ a picture of your dog on it and they'd let you in.
david - how am i IGNORANT?? i'm aware that others have to pay for college and if they need an extra ten or twenty bucks every once in awhile, i offered multiple ways to come across that money.

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jazz is played from the heart. you can live by it. always love it.
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I'm all about not paying taxes for stuff....i'm not sure why people are ripping you so much niki.
they seem to have forgotten that your parents don't want you getting a job. albeit that idea dumb, your ideas are probably better as they require less time and make you more money.


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You want to sleep with common people like me

come on, guys. Let her get money for not doing a hell of a lot. Most of you guys would do it if you knew the exact how what where when and why... except for the drug testing thing. I don't quite understand that. They test drugs on you??? And you're worried about hte effects of hormones in the egg taking business?

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This is true for me... and this is my SENIOR year of college. I have way too many projects, meetings, and assignments to juggle. I can't imagine managing a job with my schedule. I have little free time as it is. It really depends on where you go to school and what type of classes you have.

i agree with that.

I can't beleive how the mentality of people is soemtimes, i'm not against working, i'll work if i have to, i did before, do now, and will again. But people are so quick at dissing others when they find other ways to make moneys then standard jobs, these ways are NOT LESS RESPECTABLE then having a standard job. I think what Niki does for money is perfectly fine and innovative(well bi montly checks are just being lucky). If you earn a lot of money with a minimum effort, why should it be wrong? Truth is everyone of us would LOVE that.

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yes, but as you know Ariel, I think it's rediculous to sell your body for money, in studies, donations, or otherwise. It's.. litterally being a sell-out.. and I think that should be /serious/ last minute types of ways to get money..

but that is just me..

I think it's just a personal choice. And it sounds almost like you're comparing donating plasma to prostitution.

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Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear.

Donating plasma seems a-okay (and practical not to mention helpful to some guy who's dying) to me. Kudos to creativity...

Eve:

The reason I said you seemed ignorant is because you started the thread with: "i don't understand why college kids are always so poor", which makes it seem like you are assuming that all college kids have the same benefits and advantages that you have, thus making you seem ignorant.

David

Eeeyyyyyyeah.

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Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear.

sell-out?

And it depends on the testings you do, but i can tell you that those i take are extremely safe. I never had any side-effects in ANY of them. I'm feeling perfectly healthy (i wasn't last year but i know it had nothing to do with testings) and am. Now i'm not saying people should make a living out of that (athough i almost am), but it sure is welcome when you need some financial back-up.

It's not like you don't know EVERYTHING that the drug does and that you're uninformed. It's all extremly professional and the last thing they want is someone to be sick. In most testing you take but one tiny pill per stay (usually it doesn't go beyond three stays) that represents most of the times about 25% of the standard DAILY dosage for the drug. There's hardly any chance it will do anything to your system worse then maybe, if you're unlucky (since it hasnt happenned to me yet), a slight headache or stomach sickness.

If you ask me getting drunk or high or smoking or all of this is much more threatening to anyone's health then any of the testing i've been to.

Besides in the end, it's only helping medical science. And donating plasma is helping other people. I see this as far more respectable and infinitely more usfeul to society then, for example, cooking and selling hamburgers.

I did the plasma thing for a while but I was worried it was fucking up my right hand, and anything that fucks with my hands has got to go cause if I couldn't play music I'd die. But I've known lots of ppl that have given plasma twice a week and had no problems.

Eventually it gets old but by then you'll probably be ready for that real job. I haven't had a "real" job except 4 months waiting tables and 3 months at food lion in my 4 years in college. I've made $8,000 accompanying voice students and musicals but I don't consider that real work.

Oh, and musicians and artists do have to pay taxes. I have to report everything I get

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that's right...

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