SO. (Money rant)

Guess who I got a phone call from today? The futon place. They have my futon. (They've had it for a while now, but no one working there called, and I kept forgetting to call them.)

Guess when I'll be getting my futon? Not this weekend.

Why? Because LaGuardia received my loan application and neglected to tell me that I should bring it in, and tried to tell me that the form says to bring it in. Which it doesn't. Because if it did, I'd have brought it when I filled it out TWO MONTHS AGO. So thanks to that lovely mishap, I had to sign up for TuitionPay, because my loan will not be approved before the 8/10/09 payment deadline, and signing up for TuitionPay meant I had to throw them $345 as SOON as I signed up.

Where did that $345 go? My credit card. Which is what the futon was supposed to go to. My bed money went to the tuition I was NOT supposed to be paying out-of-pocket. And I get paid on Wednesday, but this has royally f'ed up my finances, because now I have to hold $167 from the next eight checks in addition to everything else I have to pay, and if I were to try to get the futon this weekend, I'd have no money left. None.

Related to the money thing: The state lifted the requirement for ten years of service, regarding the voluntary severance program, so I'm now eligible. (Maybe. See below.)

$20,000 is not a lot of money, but I swear to god, I'm this close to going ahead with it. I don't even know if they'd let me quit since they couldn't refill my position and someone might make the argument that the unit needs a secretary, but seriously. Screw money.

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My future General Psychology/SSY101 professor on RateMyProfessors

Yay. I'm looking forward to that class. :D

Oh yeah. You know the boss didn't come in today, and only remembered (supposedly) to call me when he woke up (supposedly) around 12:30? Yeah. If I had done that, I'd have gotten a lecture. I should've lectured him. It would've been funny.

Bright spot concerning money

I finally got around to cancelling Ashworth, and because I only completed one course before I truly realized the dullness a business-filled curriculum would entail, I actually overpaid, so I should be getting a $180 refund within the next month. No idea how it's going to come since I've used both my cards to pay them in the past. If it goes to the credit card, that'll be good. If it goes to the debit card, I'll shift the money to the other card. (The $180 came up on my account before I lost access due to them cancelling me, so... yeah, we'll see if it comes through. It better, or they're getting another phone call. They were very good about cancelling me, though--I really expected the whole "why are you leaving? we'll give you this and this if you stay!" thing, but all I did was explain why I was cancelling and that was it. Was pleasantly surprised by that. I guess they figured they got my money.)

I'm going to have roughly $470 once bills and transfers are done on Wednesday. Shall be another two weeks of staying far away from Borders and such. As it is, I've been a trading fiend on Swaptree and have probably racked up about $40-50 in shipipng charges. ^^; Still, for all the stuff I got, totally worth it. Most of the things I traded for were games. I have two hardcover Harry Potter books left. I've been trading them away; I plan to get the paperback books eventually. The hardcovers are HUGE, and heavy.

There was another book fair at the building near my job. As soon as I can out of the subway, my eyes locked onto a copy of Twilight. I swear I almost went over to see how much it would be, and if it was cheap enough, I'd have bought multiple copies. EVERY TIME I go to see what I need to trade to get something, Twilight's on the list. (Kinda like Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, Super Paper Mario, Twilight Princess, Left 4 Dead, de Blob, Kororinpa or something like that, a Marble Madness-type game...) I could've bought copies for cheap and traded them away for damn near whatever I wanted... probably including another copy of de Blob. I accidentally left the case with all the Wii games in the basement at the house. I'm back to listening to de Blob's soundtrack and not playing it. I'm not happy about that. And it's only gonna be Tuesday tomorrow. -_- I need to keep one copy in each place.