Well, here I am with my 2010 tax returns, filling out another round of financial aid. With all the cuts that are happening it's hard to imagine that they are still giving away money (and by giving away we all know what I mean). One of my sections that I was supposed to teach this summer got dropped. So my summer paycheck literally got cut in half. But I really can't get that upset, I mean who gets terribly mad its basically the equivalent of losing a dollar when I only had two to start with. since the University makes us sign up for continuous enrollment I essentially signed up for a class I don't need that never meets, but has all of the fees attached to it. What that basically means is that I'm paying a $545 application fee for a few pages of paper work to go through.
So yeah, I'm really poor now. For real this time. No paycheck until August/September hmmmmmmmmm. But you know things could be worse, I guess. I'm still going to Nicaragua provided that I stop eating, driving my car, taking Isa out, running my air conditioner, stop going to the Keys to sample fishermen (for which is the sole purpose I exist at the moment), and never do anything outside of my 2.8 mile commute to my windowless cubicle that has had a backed up sewer smell, mildew that was painted over on the walls, and no ceiling with an air vent that could fall and kill my Nepali colleague at any moment. Oh but I'm assuming that every grad student deals with those things so I guess it's not all that bad.
No not really, It may not be what I imagined it to be but I really have a ton to be thankful for and so much going on that I'm hardly ever bored. And if I do get bored, I could just go to Publix and watch people weigh themselves, I can't do that in Troy.
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