elanya

I'm a littl slow moving lately. However, I was up late last night, and now I have picked the clothes I am taking to SHA, though I haven't actually packed them yet. That's probably next.

After that, I need to go out and get hamster food somewhere, because I have none. I haven't decided if I should take the bus, or walk, or walk one way and bus back, or what. Either way it is a huge time-sink and I am trying to figure out a: where I should go, and b: if there are any other errands I could/should run while I'm out. Maybe I will pick up a stick incense holder, because atm I only have cone, but only stick incense, and that's getting a little messy ;) The annoying thing is that it cuts into my thesis-writing time. But maybe I will make that up tonight.

Ack! I can't believe I'm leaving tomorrow for California :o I hope the conference is good... But either way, I love traveling, and it excites me to be going just because I've never gone out there before. I'm easy to please, really :)

Apparently my paying of my tuition did no go as smoothly as I'd though. Bah. hopefully this crap will all get sorted out :p

You know, I think I've even used that title before.

Apparently, the bill I paid that I thought was my tuition was actually *just* the old medical bill I owed. Annoyingly enough, because of the way I did that, I can't even make a claim with my insurance company for it. Also, it was more than I remember it being when I was at student health initially. Why the next term's fees and such never showed up in the system is beyond me. Also, apparently only about a third of my scholarship money has been forwarded, so I *technically* owe them about $1000 more than I should. And of course, I have until Thursday to pay this all off.

Those of you who have been paying attention will know that I am leaving here tomorrow at 5 AM to go to a conference in California. So that's just swell. Additionally, I didn't even find out exactly what was going on until after the cashier's office closed. I got the explanatory e-mail in my box at 5:13, and as I was packing, didn't see it until 5:30.

So as far as I can tell, I will probably wind up paying about 200$ for tuition this term. However... I may wind up having to pay the school more like 1200, and then squeeze out the other 1000 the owe me like blood from a stone. The main problem with this issue is that right now I have about 200$ in my account. This was worrying when I thought that was all I would have accessible in Sacramento (although I'll get paid on Saturday night), especially considering I had to write a check for the rest of my dance lessons last night. I also have about 300$ CAD on my credit card. I was planning on that being my Sacramento 'emergency' money :p Of the money I can access... that's all there is.

Of course, if I'd *known* how this was really going to play out, I could have planned for it. I could have gotten access to other monies over the holiday, and been more frugal in my shopping (no new pants :p), not out in the wee little BPAL order I sent in a few days ago, etc. But I thought it was all settled, and so I re-budgeted accordingly. And now: screwed. Oh, and once again I forgot that my direct debit for my heating bill comes out automatically around now, and that it wouldn't cover the period during which I was away (at least I hope not, because otherwise, that's just crazy). That's why I have only about 200 in the bank as opposed to about 300, which would have made me feel a little bit better before this crap happened, at least. I just got my phone bill, and I haven't opened it yet, because it always sucks and I made more calls last month than usual. Also, I still haven't bought more than $30 of groceries since I got home, since I knew I was going away this weekend. My mid-month pay check was earmarked for food nd bills, and who knows now?

I hate things like this like you wouldn't believe.

There was nothing telling me that there were any problems with this stuff until today.

Why does this shit always seem to happen to me? Is there really something that I could be doing better? I wonder, because they *do* always happen. Is there some kind of lesson here that I am missing, besides the one that says always have a better nest egg to fall back on when things try to bite you in the ass like this?