My Illinois state tax return showed up in my checking account earlier in the week and, according to the math I just did, it showed up just in time to save my bank account from going negative. Last week's payday splurge was incredibly irresponsible and I'm still pretty damned ashamed that I wasted so much of my money in one day while endangering my finances for a fucking fortnight. So much of my money goes into buying reading material, so I think it's time to scale things back a bit, less mini-series and things of that nature, more going to the library to read all the Russian stuff I've been interested in, that sort of thing.
I still haven't really saved anything other than a few bits of loose change that are left in my savings account. It adds up to about $5.50, which is nothing. I still have to pay off tuition and then pay for new tuition when I register for summer classes, which is depressing(because it will consume such an enormous portion of my paychecks) but hopeful(because going back to college = getting on with it). I'm also nervous as hell about going back, I'm both scared that I won't be able to manage my time correctly and distinctly terrified of failing.
In further irresponsible news, I had planned on finally buying a set of Danelectro effects pedals, which I have been wanting for about 9 years now, but that was before blowing hundreds of dollars on literature last Friday. The Ebay auction went for $99.00, which is a hell of a deal for five pedals, cables, casing and power supply. Right now I'm watching three different auctions and I'm going to get one of them. This is really important to me because over the three years I have stopped writing both fiction and poetry, stopping writing songs and pretty much stopped playing music too. I don't know what caused this artistic death, but I'm hoping some effects pedals will inspire me once I get them next to my feet, because they are awfully exciting now and they're just in a picture on the tubes.
I still haven't really saved anything other than a few bits of loose change that are left in my savings account. It adds up to about $5.50, which is nothing. I still have to pay off tuition and then pay for new tuition when I register for summer classes, which is depressing(because it will consume such an enormous portion of my paychecks) but hopeful(because going back to college = getting on with it). I'm also nervous as hell about going back, I'm both scared that I won't be able to manage my time correctly and distinctly terrified of failing.
In further irresponsible news, I had planned on finally buying a set of Danelectro effects pedals, which I have been wanting for about 9 years now, but that was before blowing hundreds of dollars on literature last Friday. The Ebay auction went for $99.00, which is a hell of a deal for five pedals, cables, casing and power supply. Right now I'm watching three different auctions and I'm going to get one of them. This is really important to me because over the three years I have stopped writing both fiction and poetry, stopping writing songs and pretty much stopped playing music too. I don't know what caused this artistic death, but I'm hoping some effects pedals will inspire me once I get them next to my feet, because they are awfully exciting now and they're just in a picture on the tubes.