2005-11-28

at least I currently have good credit...

So it is a bad day for xanthium's personal finances. I just wrote a $1,050 check to myself from my credit card so that I can pay my last semester of fees for the master's degree that has Ruined My Life. I couldn't even pay for the fees directly with my credit card, because the university doesn't accept credit. I couldn't write the check directly to them, because they only accept Canadian funds. So, I have to do it the extra sneaky way, which incidently, will cost me an extra $100, first for the bank fees from my credit card company for writing the check and then for the additional cost of wiring the money internationally from my checking account. But at least now, I should be able to avoid the university closing my account and denying me the degree that I have more than earned. And three months after finishing my thesis, I am still unemployed. Yet my horoscope is still rosy. It's a mystery. Maybe this will be the week that things start to work out...

I just checked my university email to see if the financial office had sent me anything. There was an email from my supervisor and the department secretary congratulating me on finishing my masters. My thesis has finally been graded--I got 7 "excellents" and 3 "very goods" whatever that means. My supervisor wrote that it is "a very very strong pass" and that I should be very proud, as he is, but that I wasn't recomended for the honors list. I don't care, but at the same time, I wonder what it is exactly that you would have to do to make that list. Give the outside reader a blow job? Would that suffice?

Now that it is graded, maybe other things will start to work out...

xanthium at 12:14 p.m.

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