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I got paid for my internship! Finally. Granted, every penny of the 600 I'm supposedly getting (right now I have $515, but i think that's because there was a limit on how many hours we could put on a two-week pay roll) will be going toward rent, and I will once again be a poor college student just shy of living on peanut butter and jelly, but at least I'll have a place to live through June. I really should start looking for another job that gives me more than 10 hours a week.
In other news, drove to Chili and back yesterday to get my tires rotated. Apparently the lug nuts Coyote originally used aren't made anymore, so what we found when we tried to rotate the tires was a hodge-podge of two different sizes. A few of them had also collapsed and were a bitch to get off - one pretty much refused to move until we had ground it away to almost nothing. So, Dad and I went into Marshfield to get me a new set of 20 all the same size. Had to get a new wrench, too, because the one that came with the car was now too small to do me any good if I did run across some bad luck and blow a tire. Dad payed for the new lug nuts and the wrench, even as I was fishing my check book out of my bag... again, I tell you, my parents rock.
Had lunch with Mom at the Y before heading back to Simon's where we left Coyote so he could use his handy-dandy wrench gun (or whatever it's called - the air-powered tool mechanics use to loosen and tighten lug nuts on cars that makes this cool "whiiiiirrrrrrr" sound) to pop those lug nuts on in no time. So, now Coyote has shiny new lug nuts on all of his tires.
By this time, it was getting up around 2:30 pm and I had to work at 4, so I started back to Point. Got gas along the way - $3.99 a gallon. I cringe to think what i would be spending if I didn't live in Plover and instead had to drive the 13 miles to Marshfield every day, or worse, the *45* miles to Stevens Point every day from my parents house to get to school/work. Coyote gets good gas mileage - about 25 miles per gallon highway, and 23 in town - but it's not *that* good.
Anyway, I pull into Point right around 3:45. Since I had paperwork and stuff to fill out before class, I just went directly to the YMCA to get ready. Had to fill out report cards for all my kids to see if they're moving up to the next level of swim lessons or not. A good chunk of one class is moving up, and about half of another class, which is actually a pretty good ratio compared to usual. Yay for kids that can swim!
Got home around 7, made a sandwich, watched Ever After for about 20 minutes, and then I read Pirates of the Caribbean fic all night. Oh yeah, I'm a dork.
In other news, drove to Chili and back yesterday to get my tires rotated. Apparently the lug nuts Coyote originally used aren't made anymore, so what we found when we tried to rotate the tires was a hodge-podge of two different sizes. A few of them had also collapsed and were a bitch to get off - one pretty much refused to move until we had ground it away to almost nothing. So, Dad and I went into Marshfield to get me a new set of 20 all the same size. Had to get a new wrench, too, because the one that came with the car was now too small to do me any good if I did run across some bad luck and blow a tire. Dad payed for the new lug nuts and the wrench, even as I was fishing my check book out of my bag... again, I tell you, my parents rock.
Had lunch with Mom at the Y before heading back to Simon's where we left Coyote so he could use his handy-dandy wrench gun (or whatever it's called - the air-powered tool mechanics use to loosen and tighten lug nuts on cars that makes this cool "whiiiiirrrrrrr" sound) to pop those lug nuts on in no time. So, now Coyote has shiny new lug nuts on all of his tires.
By this time, it was getting up around 2:30 pm and I had to work at 4, so I started back to Point. Got gas along the way - $3.99 a gallon. I cringe to think what i would be spending if I didn't live in Plover and instead had to drive the 13 miles to Marshfield every day, or worse, the *45* miles to Stevens Point every day from my parents house to get to school/work. Coyote gets good gas mileage - about 25 miles per gallon highway, and 23 in town - but it's not *that* good.
Anyway, I pull into Point right around 3:45. Since I had paperwork and stuff to fill out before class, I just went directly to the YMCA to get ready. Had to fill out report cards for all my kids to see if they're moving up to the next level of swim lessons or not. A good chunk of one class is moving up, and about half of another class, which is actually a pretty good ratio compared to usual. Yay for kids that can swim!
Got home around 7, made a sandwich, watched Ever After for about 20 minutes, and then I read Pirates of the Caribbean fic all night. Oh yeah, I'm a dork.