Money, insanity, the godfather... and how they all intertwine.
So yeah. Work is starting to get a little crazy, what with the corps arriving in two weeks and all. We had this programming and service day long "retreat" where the powers that be kept us in a room with no windows for an entire day while they talked about the upcoming year. Fun times, and by fun times i mean... i kept wanting to jam a pen in my eye. I can't be talked at for 9 hours, i shut down after an hour and a half. It doesn't help that i am having money issues. Yes I can pay my rent. Yes I can pay my electric/gas/phone/cable bill (though unless graham is horribly attached to it, i'm going to seriously reduce my service). So that leaves me with... my grad school tuition bill, my books, fun money (cmon everyone has to have something put aside to have fun), and oh yeah... food. This is where i start twitching uncontrollably, and wondering where those stereotypical jewish qualities of being good with money are when i need them.
So i'm running around breaking up my americorps grant to pay for part of my schooling, filing out the fafsa and applying for the stafford loan... and tuesday i'm taking a day off from work to go wait at the welfare office and apply for food stamps. I am swallowing my pride in order to get 150 dollars a month from the federal gov't to pay for food. If i'm going to be poor, i might as well be poor with gusto.
That's how my week has been, impending doom of bills and incoming corps members... worries about school and my disaster area of an apartment...
Oh! I almost forgot about the godfather. I started watching it tonight because i've never seen it. Graham and i are splitting the first one up into two parts, and it was exactly what i needed to get my mind off the insanity. The movie is so freaking good.
"There's a light at each end of this tunnel, reach out cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out."
So i'm running around breaking up my americorps grant to pay for part of my schooling, filing out the fafsa and applying for the stafford loan... and tuesday i'm taking a day off from work to go wait at the welfare office and apply for food stamps. I am swallowing my pride in order to get 150 dollars a month from the federal gov't to pay for food. If i'm going to be poor, i might as well be poor with gusto.
That's how my week has been, impending doom of bills and incoming corps members... worries about school and my disaster area of an apartment...
Oh! I almost forgot about the godfather. I started watching it tonight because i've never seen it. Graham and i are splitting the first one up into two parts, and it was exactly what i needed to get my mind off the insanity. The movie is so freaking good.
"There's a light at each end of this tunnel, reach out cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out."