Winter winds

It's so windy. Just a constant roar outside my window. And it's "pissing rain" too. That's another great Irish phrase for ye. It looks really cool from the kitchen windows though.

I went down and made my maintenance requests. The woman down there who is usually a bitch was actually really nice. She smiled and said "good day" and the whole polite thing you're supposed to do. But anyways yeah, my problems are in her book now, so sometime soon--probably in the next few days--all will be well.

The rent situation is a little less chill. I didn't think I could pay anything online so I didn't try. But then I decided to try this morning since nobody answered my email and I was feeling lazy, and it said it worked. The thing that's weird though is that you don't really get to choose what you pay. There isn't a list of charges that you owe. You just go to the "student web services" section of the website and then enter how much money you want to pay and it goes to your outstanding fees. That's fine for me because the only outstanding fees I have are rent. But still. Susan at the Residence Office emailed me back and said that what I entered I wanted to pay hadn't gone through yet. I think that's okay though. It said it was successful and my bank says that it's waiting to go through, so it should be fine. This is just one of those things that I'd like to not have to wait for.

Financial aid is disbursed on Saturday so then it should be in my account next week sometime. That's good because I can't pay next semester's rent until that comes in. I also can't buy much of anything until then now...but after that I'll be square and not owe this damn school anything else and I won't have to worry about it anymore. I can blow it all doing fun things. No, I'm not going to blow anything doing anything. I'm going to be budget conscious this term. I'd like to have something left over for next year. I need to, I mean.

Also need some monies to get home with. It's not going to be a problem though. I'm turning into Madre: worrying too much.

I kind of hate winter right now. It's not light until 9 (not that I'm awake to notice) and it's dark by 5. There's no snow here right now. That would even make it better I think. Then it would be bright outside all day. Not dreary.


I want this one too.
Someday I'll save up and buy a real one. They're really expensive! But so cool.