So yesterday morning I left for work a little early to stop and fill my gas tank since I was just below 1/8 and I usually fill it at 1/4. Just as I finished filling the tank and was entering the odometer reading, price, and gallons into my https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zonewalker.acar&hl=en">aCar tracking app, A man calls out to me from ( Read more... )

There are fees for everything in this school district! For one thing, it costs almost $300/year to ride the school bus--something I've always experienced as a free service everywhere else. Now I find out that if Dominic gets a part in a play (he's taking a Theater Arts class) that there is a $200 "Activity Fee" that each student has to pay. This ( Read more... )

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I'm finally going through and adding black shirts to my CafePress shops. I need the money and I figure sales will go up a lot of I add the black shirts. It's a long and tedious process because I have to recreate the graphics in a transparent format. Some of them I have in old transparent PSP files, but Photoshop CS3 won't open them and I don't have ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone with my mom and some of her stocks are doing a little better and so she may be able to help out some in the fall. That would be great. She already helps a lot by paying for my books & supplies, by the way--she's done that all along and there's no way I would have been able to even go to school if I had to buy that stuff ( Read more... )

Ok so today I got the letter from the school saying that my residency petition had been denied. This means that in the fall I will still have to pay out of state tuition*. That's around $7,500. My financial aid total (pell grant + subsidized + unsubsidized loans) is $7,616. Then I got the merit scholarship, half of which applies to fall semester. ( Read more... )

So this is my last week of classes. Next week is finals, then I'm done for the semester. Yesterday I had my final review in painting. The teacher pretty much had negative things to say about all of my work. His biggest criticism was that all of my work was "took dark" and "dull" but whatever. My sense of aesthetics tends toward overall dark images ( Read more... )

I have two bits of art-related news. First, I got my letter today from the Merit Scholarship Committee. This was a scholarship I applied for a few months ago that is offered by the art department. You submit 6 pictures of your art, and they award the scholarships based solely on merit. They award several scholarships, and they award them at ( Read more... )

Time for me to do my taxes. Oh goodie. I'm trying to figure out how to file state taxes, since I lived in both Georgia and Ohio. I doubt highly that I will owe any taxes since I'm a po' college student with a very, very small income, but I still need to file ( Read more... )

I'm sick. I got sick on Saturday, December 29 while in Atlanta, and then it got a little better, but now it's worse again. In between that, Dan got sick. I think we may be playing Germ Tennis and passing this back and forth. We've decided that one of us should sleep in the guest room until neither of us is sick anymore ( Read more... )