Fancy hotels are definitely disappointing! Like plane travel, they seem priced for for price-insensitive customers. The example of the third-class train with no roof comes to mind, but I should really get back to work.

Now restaurants, on the other hand...if I couldn't eat well, I wouldn't be in this job.

Y'all haven't been to the right fancy hotels. The one where the cleaning lady saw what food I was bringing back to my room from the buffets and just started stocking my fridge and saving me the legwork? Worth it. Good Jamaican food and good general cuisine? Worth it.

There's a certain standard of cleanliness and basic functionality I demand. Pile individualised attention and good looks and rich components (sheets, coffee, dessert--whatever)...gotta love it.

Hotels that give you buckwheat pillows or exercise balls--love. All sorts of shit like that.

I get it. I just don't want to pay for it myself.

Kat, I appreciate it, but I'm in way too foul a mood. All I want to do is leave. Fucking hell. It was 4am when I told them I was in a lot of pain. One shot, and they've only moved me around since then.

I get really self-conscious when the maids come in to turn down my bed.

I get really self-conscious when the maids come in to turn down my bed.

Maybe if you put your boxer shorts on...

Kat, I appreciate it, but I'm in way too foul a mood. All I want to do is leave. Fucking hell. It was 4am when I told them I was in a lot of pain. One shot, and they've only moved me around since then.

I know. I figured. Your hospitalization is NOT about providing me with something to do.

I pay more for hotels I like. Or at least for hotels with a good pool system, like Mandalay Bay. I'd rather stay at MB then at Winn or Bellagio.

He would get special treatment in Manhattan and probably SV too if his social world was not the world of the other-multi-millionaires. I have ZERO doubt he'd get special treatment if he lowered his standards. I've gotten special treatment from being a regular at bars and restuarants while I was in college and darn poor.

Well, he's not a twenty year old girl with a great body.

There are all kinds of "wealth".

I pay more for hotels I like. Or at least for hotels with a good pool system, like Mandalay Bay

Yeah, the penthouse suite at THEHotel MB was the only time a swank hotel has really been worth it, to me. (Didn't hurt that we weren't paying penthouse prices.) I haven't encountered the level of personalized service ita notes, though. I might change my mind then.

I had no idea Lily Allen was his daughter! So freaking awesome!

I think I'd enjoy her reaction if she ever meets the Phelpses....

I've found that there's a little bit of prestige attached to being an author, but I've no wealth in the large sense of it. I'm still very middle class, money-wise.

I wish I weren't poor. There are things I want to do, and it bugs me that the main concerns the government has about me is my "getting too much". But then there are times when advertising totally fucks with my head and I'm embarrassed about the thrift-store shirt(when I usually don't care) or the fact that Mom buys from the day old bread store. I'm educated; I know there isn't a constitutional right to pay too much, and I know I have more than the girl who cut the shirt. But sometimes I have a voice in my head that's like "Bottom-feeding cripple! God, you're repulsive and a waste of a brain."