breathing space
Apr. 5th, 2007 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI think, for the first time in I can't remember how long, that I'm actually caught up with all the screaming emergencies I can do anything about at work. That's not to say that there aren't any screaming emergencies, but for once they're not my own pet screaming emergencies.
As a result, I'm thinking about all sorts of other things, like how to stop paying $400 a month in student loans. That's why I can't save any money. When you make $2000 a month and $1400 of it turns right back around as rent and loan payments, and the other $600 has to do for the rest of the bills, you can just about break even. I'm sick of just about breaking even.
Last night I had a free session with a trainer at the gym I just joined. I'm not particularly impressed. I said I wanted to lose some weight and he spent the next hour giving me toning exercises, only one of which made me sweat at all. Sigh. I joined the gym to get access to treadmills and such, though, so maybe I'll just do that there and do toning exercises at home when I don't feel like going to the gym. Bazz fazz.
The sun looks like it might be trying to make an appearance. That would be nice. It would also be nice if I could take the afternoon off, but that's not going to happen. Harvard acknowledges no holidays in March or April, so the next long weekend is Memorial Day. That's a long way off. (Although less long than I think, probably, so I should send the Oberlin reunion reservation stuff back before the end of next week.)
Oh yes, I should also make a list of the non-work-related things I only ever remember when I'm at work, and get around to them.
As a result, I'm thinking about all sorts of other things, like how to stop paying $400 a month in student loans. That's why I can't save any money. When you make $2000 a month and $1400 of it turns right back around as rent and loan payments, and the other $600 has to do for the rest of the bills, you can just about break even. I'm sick of just about breaking even.
Last night I had a free session with a trainer at the gym I just joined. I'm not particularly impressed. I said I wanted to lose some weight and he spent the next hour giving me toning exercises, only one of which made me sweat at all. Sigh. I joined the gym to get access to treadmills and such, though, so maybe I'll just do that there and do toning exercises at home when I don't feel like going to the gym. Bazz fazz.
The sun looks like it might be trying to make an appearance. That would be nice. It would also be nice if I could take the afternoon off, but that's not going to happen. Harvard acknowledges no holidays in March or April, so the next long weekend is Memorial Day. That's a long way off. (Although less long than I think, probably, so I should send the Oberlin reunion reservation stuff back before the end of next week.)
Oh yes, I should also make a list of the non-work-related things I only ever remember when I'm at work, and get around to them.
