Nice weather for ducks

Holidays. Not much to do. Not a care in the world. Except... I've got to raise a significant chunk of green, and soon. I mean, to those that have a reasonable flow of the dollar, it's not a large amount really. I have friends who gamble that much away in a night, some friends who'd pay that for a meal, or a good bottle of wine. And then there are others who could feed their family for the next twelve years on the funds I seek purely for self-enhancing reasons. So yeah, I feel kinda bad about this. Middle-class guilt I guess. Anyone have a solution for this? Sell my possesions and become a monk? I'm considering it...