In which Marcy asks for money from her parents, for a long and semi-amusing list of reasons. Also, she\u2019s taking and loving Modern Dance; yet another thing that I had no idea she liked.<\/p>\r\n
“Help, Help! This-here is the classic example of College Student Writing Home For Money, full of flimsy excuses and unavoidable reasons”<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n [pencil: 5\/18\/66?]\r\n\r\nH'ro.\r\n\r\nHelp, Help! This-here is the classic example of College\r\nStudent Writing Home For Money, full of flimsy excuses and\r\nunavoidable reasons--so:\r\n\r\nflimsy excuses:\r\n\r\n1) I can't resist making dinner for hungry artists and\r\nstarving film-makers and charming historians and stimulating\r\nfellow-ed-majors. [handwritten: & sometimes professors.]\r\n\r\n2) I can't stand instant coffee\r\n\r\n3) I'm tense about all my work and when I'm tense I eat\r\nmore, and more, and more...\r\n\r\n4) I splurged and bought a bed board for $6, and the damn\r\nthing creaked too much so now my bed is on the floor anyway.\r\n\r\n5) My flashlight broke and the damn cop didn't believe me\r\nand there's a $3. fine for riding a bike without a light at\r\nnight.\r\n\r\n6) One of the aforementioned irresistible males--the fellow\r\ned major one, to be exact--took me to dinner in the Inn in\r\nrepayal of many dinners here--and I spilled Gravy on Annie's\r\nnicest dress and had to get it cleaned.\r\n\r\nunavoidable reasons\r\n\r\n1) have to get typewriter cleaned before I start the good\r\ncopies of papers--it's about 3 times slower than it could\r\nbe....will cost 8 or 10 dollars\r\n\r\n2) had to replace exploded bike tire; there are used ones,\r\nh'ray, but cost another $2.\r\n\r\n3) the village of yellow springs slips a quarterly sewage\r\nand water and garbage bill into the general utilities thing\r\nwhen no one's noticing, which is only about $7 per quarter,\r\nbut I was budgeted pretty closely and even $2.30\r\nunpreparedly is a sizeable bite.\r\n\r\n4) stupidly tripped while carrying Susie's tape recorder\r\n(which I'd been using) and shattered a coupla tubes, which\r\ncost 8.50\r\n\r\n5) had to make a couple of trips to the Dayton library, and\r\ngenerally you have to ether pay or buy lunch or something\r\nfor whoever's driving.\r\n\r\ni.e., all things considered, I've been making up for lost x\r\ntime and not being escpecially frugal, considering that this\r\nis my lastquarter on campus and last of financial\r\nnon-independence as well....so. at last, the request:\r\nanother $100 would make life for the rest of the quarter\r\npretty decent; another $50 would just barely cover\r\nessentials; anywhere in between would fall somwehere between\r\nessentiality and decency. for whatever, my thanks.\r\n\r\nAre you coming? Have to know when and if, as have to make\r\nhotel or motel reservations, and they're getting scarcer end\r\nscarcer. Far's I can tell, I'll probably be madly busy till\r\naround Thursday, and there won't really be much to to do\r\ntill Friday anyway....suggest you get here Friday afternoon,\r\nand plan to stay till Sunday afternoon or, better,\r\nMonday--the area can be exhausted pretty quickly when you\r\ndon't enjoy a lot of walking in the woods and there aren't\r\nany classes to go to and everyone is gone.....but let me\r\nknow right away, so I can make reservations.\r\n\r\none more problem: I really<\/u> need those allergy pills--and\r\nby the time you get this and can send some plimacins, I'll\r\nbe needing another x bottle of them too. but don't hold up\r\nthe ambodryl or anything for them. Can you find out how much\r\ntriaminic costs? Suzy lives on them for asthma most of the\r\ntime, and is being reduced to x poverty.... doesn't know\r\nwhat size, but I told her I'd ask you to ask Uncle Izz how\r\nmuch they would cost in general, anyway x.\r\n\r\nThe modern dance class gets better and better. I can do all\r\nsorts of things I couldn't before, and feel great all the\r\ntime, mostly, though I also ache like hell, but even that\r\nfeels good, and am keeping my weight pretty leve1 despite a\r\nheightened food intake, and really excited about how\r\nwonderful it is to be able to move freely. If I had to be x\r\ntaking it, I'd resent like anything spending an hour and a\r\nhalf a day (most weekdays) on such discipline, but being for\r\nno credit, and being just about the only exercise I get,\r\nexcept bike rides to and from Antioch School, that time\r\nbecomes sacred and inviolable, and a necessary period of\r\nrelaxation and complete freedom from pressures.\r\n\r\nogod. suddenly it got to be 1 o'clock--and I have to do some\r\npreparing for school tomorrow. Letter suspended. love to\r\nanyone,\r\n\r\n [handwritten: love, Marcia]\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Postmark: May 19, 1966, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this 5\/21” and “Ans. this 5\/22” and some notes-to-self from Ethel about getting various meds for Marcy.<\/p>\r\n
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