Friday I stopped into the StreeWise office to receive an extension on my temporary badge. During orientation, the group of potential StreetWise vendors I was in were told that we had to sell 120 papers in a two week period. I had only sold 40 papers. I sat down with Greg, Director of Distribution of StreetWise to receive my extension.

Greg first asked me if me if this was my first extension. It was. He then asked if I had sold any papers. I told him that I did. Greg went to check his computer that was running slow that day. He then stepped away from his computer to go to the cubical that was behind me because his computer was taking too long to log into his. “You’ve sold forty papers. Are you working a full-time job or in school?” he asked. I had told him that I was. Greg continued, “Well show me something that shows me you’re in school and I’ll lower your requirement.” I quickly pulled out my Harold Washington College school i.d. and handed it over to him. He examined it carefully I suppose to see if it was authentic. “Let me make a copy of this” he said.

Greg returned from the photocopier, handed me my i.d. and started printing out my new bright orange temporary badge. Greg told me that I only had to sell eighty papers in two weeks to receive my permanent StreetWise badge. I thanked him and went to the “cage” to purchase another twenty of this week papers.

Saturday I went out determined to earnestly sell the rest of my StreetWise papers. I had sixteen left. I started my day at 10:30 a.m. I took an hour break between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. I had only 5 more papers to sell. It took another forty-five minutes to sell four more papers. I kept one for myself to read on the way home.

The StreetWise Challenge

On the way downtown, knowing that I would be out their for a long time, I started to toy with the question of paying for my entire rent in advance for a entire quarter (three months).  Could I possibly do it selling StreetWise. The amount would be $1,650.00. With today being the seventh day and not having any papers to sell would put me at having only twenty-three days to accomplish this task. That would require me to work twenty-three days straight and sell an average of 72 papers a day. It took including yesterday and Friday a total of 6.75 hours to sell twenty.

While I’m waiting for a job offer I thought I would entertain this idea. I’ll give myself even to October 5th as that is the last day I can pay without occurring a $25.00 late penalty from my landlord.

Health Log

Weight: 217 lbs.

Jog: 60:00 mins.

Jogging Trek

It’s been exactly 40 days since I started jogging on July 30th. Today I was able to run for an entire hour. I started out running for a total of three minutes. I will now try and work on my speed. I will give the place that I stopped today the name “Point A” as a reference in my health log. I will run to that place as my daily goal and record the time it takes to get to it.