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Aug. 29th, 2009 02:07 amGah. I spent 11 hours babysitting today. If I do this a few more times before school starts, I might not fall behind on rent or starve.
See, the problem with the financial aid at my school is that I have no idea when I'm going to get it. I have to wait for the checks from my Pell grant and other grants to come in before I can touch a penny of the money I should get for living expenses, and they might not come until the end of the quarter. So I might have to come up with three months rent and food money on my own.
I figure I can get one month's rent out of the work-study job that I will get even if it kills me, and I have another months in savings. So all I need to do is one more month's worth of money. I have a month to earn it, so I don't think I'll die. But it would be nice to have enough for the occasional treat- coffee, maybe, or books from the store instead of the library.
(I love the library. I just feel silly when their copy of A Door Into Ocean spends more time in my apartment than on their shelf).
Also, I am really weirded out that Little Sister is in high school now. And in less than a year I'll be 20 years old. I'm getting old. It's only a matter of time before I end up with dentures and one of those walker things.
Also also: the HP fic I've been writing for less than two weeks is now longer than the original novel I've been writing for nearly a year. I'm not sure if that says more about the fic or the novel. I think I'm going to end up with an accidental WriMo.
See, the problem with the financial aid at my school is that I have no idea when I'm going to get it. I have to wait for the checks from my Pell grant and other grants to come in before I can touch a penny of the money I should get for living expenses, and they might not come until the end of the quarter. So I might have to come up with three months rent and food money on my own.
I figure I can get one month's rent out of the work-study job that I will get even if it kills me, and I have another months in savings. So all I need to do is one more month's worth of money. I have a month to earn it, so I don't think I'll die. But it would be nice to have enough for the occasional treat- coffee, maybe, or books from the store instead of the library.
(I love the library. I just feel silly when their copy of A Door Into Ocean spends more time in my apartment than on their shelf).
Also, I am really weirded out that Little Sister is in high school now. And in less than a year I'll be 20 years old. I'm getting old. It's only a matter of time before I end up with dentures and one of those walker things.
Also also: the HP fic I've been writing for less than two weeks is now longer than the original novel I've been writing for nearly a year. I'm not sure if that says more about the fic or the novel. I think I'm going to end up with an accidental WriMo.
