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Oct. 29th, 2003 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
