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dchenesYesterday was Not Fun, and I really want to know where the $300 that was keeping me from worrying about rent went. I got it sorted out, but I was a basket case for a while there. Then I went off to my Tuesday night class, which was sillier than usual since we were supposed to have a guest lecturer, but she had the flu, so the regular prof got to talk about interpreting, and had a lot of funny stories (and some less funny ones) on the subject. By the time the class was over, I was hungry, so I came home and made soup of sorts, and spilled it over my left hand, and burned myself. I was all set to get some actual work done last night, but somehow I didn't, and I wound up going to bed at 1:00 this morning.
For some reason my brain decided that 8:00 was a perfectly reasonable time to be up, so I got up and did the normal morning stuff (breakfast and e-mail and online newspapers), and called the Art department and got more work. I'm looking at having more work in November than I've had so far, put together. Anyway, I got odds and ends of work done this morning. After lunch I was sitting here doing my reading for tonight, and all of a sudden I just want to go back to bed for a couple of hours. That would be a bad idea, though. I don't need my sleep schedule any more messed with than it already is. I think the fact that the sun was out this morning had something to do with how early I woke up.
General thoughts: If I can get through this year, financially, next year should be easy. An assistantship will pay tuition and a stipend. Of course, there's the whole "moving somewhere else" thing, but that'll happen when it happens. I figure it cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of $1700 to move out here, counting truck rental and security deposit on the apartment and the week I spent in the hotel and all the things I had to buy to get set up.
What I really want is to borrow a fairly large (say $5000) chunk of money all at once so I'll know exactly how much of a cushion I'll have at any given time. Of course, that's no guarantee I won't run out of money anyway, eventually, but at least it won't keep me from sleeping and/or eating when I can't afford (for the sake of my academic workload) not to do either. If I keep going with the lifestyle, or lack thereof, I've got, $5000 will last me into the summer. Or it should, anyway.
Ye gods, am I tired. Six more hours and I can go to bed.
For some reason my brain decided that 8:00 was a perfectly reasonable time to be up, so I got up and did the normal morning stuff (breakfast and e-mail and online newspapers), and called the Art department and got more work. I'm looking at having more work in November than I've had so far, put together. Anyway, I got odds and ends of work done this morning. After lunch I was sitting here doing my reading for tonight, and all of a sudden I just want to go back to bed for a couple of hours. That would be a bad idea, though. I don't need my sleep schedule any more messed with than it already is. I think the fact that the sun was out this morning had something to do with how early I woke up.
General thoughts: If I can get through this year, financially, next year should be easy. An assistantship will pay tuition and a stipend. Of course, there's the whole "moving somewhere else" thing, but that'll happen when it happens. I figure it cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of $1700 to move out here, counting truck rental and security deposit on the apartment and the week I spent in the hotel and all the things I had to buy to get set up.
What I really want is to borrow a fairly large (say $5000) chunk of money all at once so I'll know exactly how much of a cushion I'll have at any given time. Of course, that's no guarantee I won't run out of money anyway, eventually, but at least it won't keep me from sleeping and/or eating when I can't afford (for the sake of my academic workload) not to do either. If I keep going with the lifestyle, or lack thereof, I've got, $5000 will last me into the summer. Or it should, anyway.
Ye gods, am I tired. Six more hours and I can go to bed.
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Date: 2003-10-29 12:24 pm (UTC)What about taking out a student type loan for said amount?
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Date: 2003-10-29 12:36 pm (UTC)Anyway, she was interpreting for an Australian documentary crew in Japan, and they all went out at one point for what amounted to an opportunity to drink a lot and tell dirty jokes and such, and she went with them and at one point had to stop interpreting because she was laughing so hard at the jokes.
One of the other stories she told was a situation in which she was interpreting for a patient in a doctor's office, and she had forgotten to tell the doctor that she was interpreting in the first person (when she said "I" she meant the patient). The patient was accusing the doctor of being racist and several other things, and the doctor got angry and threw her out because he thought she was insulting him, instead of the patient insulting him.
About the loan: my parents told me they'd rather I borrow money from them as I need it, rather than from a bank for more money than I really need but would have to pay back anyway. I can see their point, but it does have certain disadvantages.