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Oct. 30th, 2006 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI'm not sure what I'm more stressed about: workload or money worries. I have two jobs my grandfather just sent me a whacking great cheque (ish) to cover my MOT, I'm sticking to a budget of roughly £30 a week (not including last week oh god the money I spent last week) and yet I am still STRESSED LIEK WHOA about the entire thing.
The thing is, I'd be opkay if I wasn't trying to save. By 'save' I mean 'not go into my overdraft' which means that I am more than a little financially constrained. Sasha remarked yesterday that I shouldn't have to work. This is probably true - I mean, I'm at university so I really should concentrate on studies, but since I also tend to concentrate a lot on not having any food to eat, I need to work. Unfair, but, well, such is life. The problem is, of course, that I am actually trying to remain significantly into plus figures so that I can do the crazy thing and get married at some point fairly soon after graduation. (And before any says 'but your parents help with that!' I'd like to remind you that my parents are also expected to help with rent and tuition and OH LOOK HOW THAT IS WORKING OUT). I'm only trying to save £300 a year. That's it. That amount would mean that I'd have a tidy little sum to book venues and stuff with and then wages after graduation would pay for the other stuff. That is The Plan. I have a Plan!
... unfortunately, MOT+car tax+actually getting to see the man I'm meant to be marrying=GOODBYE TRIPLE FIGURES IN BANK BALANCE.
So now I am hoping and praying that the MOT comes out shiny and well and that my car is not, in fact, three seconds from explosion and needs to be stripped down and remade. I know there is one thing sort of a bit wrong with it, but I'm hoping that's just the standards of the garage I went to last time and that this time it will all be MAGICALLY OKAY. If it costs more than the amount of the cheque, then I will break down and sob like a woman.
I think I'm just going to have to give in to the inevitable and start working an extra day at the Union. I DO NOT NEED SLEEP YOU SEE.
Speaking of sleep, I spent much of last night being woken up by two of my housemates. This is because people keep on waking up at 5.00am and tramping around on the floorboards above me (just. no.) or having what I assume was noisy sex.
*cries*
Work-wise, I am just so beyond stress that it isn't funny. I can't get up the energy to actually do my essay, which is bad, as I have another one to do after that.
It will all be magically okay after Reading Week. I will have no more essays to do urgently and any bills that need to be paid will have been paid. Also I will then spend ten days in a house that has SOUNDPROOFINGand the only one having noisy sex will be me. And Simon, obviously.
~Hathy_Col~
The thing is, I'd be opkay if I wasn't trying to save. By 'save' I mean 'not go into my overdraft' which means that I am more than a little financially constrained. Sasha remarked yesterday that I shouldn't have to work. This is probably true - I mean, I'm at university so I really should concentrate on studies, but since I also tend to concentrate a lot on not having any food to eat, I need to work. Unfair, but, well, such is life. The problem is, of course, that I am actually trying to remain significantly into plus figures so that I can do the crazy thing and get married at some point fairly soon after graduation. (And before any says 'but your parents help with that!' I'd like to remind you that my parents are also expected to help with rent and tuition and OH LOOK HOW THAT IS WORKING OUT). I'm only trying to save £300 a year. That's it. That amount would mean that I'd have a tidy little sum to book venues and stuff with and then wages after graduation would pay for the other stuff. That is The Plan. I have a Plan!
... unfortunately, MOT+car tax+actually getting to see the man I'm meant to be marrying=GOODBYE TRIPLE FIGURES IN BANK BALANCE.
So now I am hoping and praying that the MOT comes out shiny and well and that my car is not, in fact, three seconds from explosion and needs to be stripped down and remade. I know there is one thing sort of a bit wrong with it, but I'm hoping that's just the standards of the garage I went to last time and that this time it will all be MAGICALLY OKAY. If it costs more than the amount of the cheque, then I will break down and sob like a woman.
I think I'm just going to have to give in to the inevitable and start working an extra day at the Union. I DO NOT NEED SLEEP YOU SEE.
Speaking of sleep, I spent much of last night being woken up by two of my housemates. This is because people keep on waking up at 5.00am and tramping around on the floorboards above me (just. no.) or having what I assume was noisy sex.
*cries*
Work-wise, I am just so beyond stress that it isn't funny. I can't get up the energy to actually do my essay, which is bad, as I have another one to do after that.
It will all be magically okay after Reading Week. I will have no more essays to do urgently and any bills that need to be paid will have been paid. Also I will then spend ten days in a house that has SOUNDPROOFING
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-10-30 02:58 pm (UTC)Also I completely feel your pain on the having ELEPHANTS WHO LIVE UPSTAIRS. I live in the basement, so unless I'm the first one up I have trampy breakfast sounds, and oh goodness I live in a house with a guy who cannot walk quietly. Nor speak at a normal level. I want to strangle him quite often. Possibly I am lacking in patience.
I appear to be able to do nothing but say 'oh goodness' rather a lot, I'm sorry. *hugs* I hope your MOT is ok.
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Date: 2006-10-30 05:02 pm (UTC)I have stolen industrial earplugs from work. Currently, they are only thing between me and being thrown in prison for murder. They problem is, I can't use them on days I actually have to get out of bed, because they are so amazingly muffling that I can't hear the alarm. As such, I get a good night's sleep on... well... the nights that I don't have to get out of bed early.
MOT is... affordable. Just about.
*hugs back* You are awesome, yes. Also, you should download Robin Hood. It is Awful McAwful, BUT it has Sam Troughton Yes He's A Direct Relation in it. He's so cute! *pets him*
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Date: 2006-10-31 09:34 pm (UTC)xx