be careful what you ask for.
sometimes it's hard to believe kate-berry isn't an only child, based on the level of demandingness when she forces me to post. i will give in to the pressure, if only because it's a good excuse not to apply for financial aid right now.
this weekend i received my congratulations! you don't suck enough that we don't want you! package from UT. they totally don't hate me, they totally want me (who doesn't?) and that's a good thing. so i got that in the mail on saturday and cried all over again. dear god, the crying never ends.
now i need to apply for financial aid, but i have a dilemma. it's a minor dilemma, but still. i need to change my name, if i am actually going to change my name (i am), even though i got married almost eight months ago and i really should have done it by now. i haven't.
i need to officially change it before i start filling out paperwork that is approved by the bureaucracy that is UT and our federal government, because i have a feeling that neither of those institutions is going to be very forgiving about my name change at the point that i'm like, hey, i filled out my paperwork, now hand over my money! i really can see them saying, nope, you can't have your money, because you're not you! you're someone with a different last name!
so the name change thing, it involves standing in line at the social security office downtown. now, i tried this once before many months ago--the standing in line part--and oh my god it's not fun. i finally gave up. also, all the downtown parking spaces are metered, which means i've got to waste valuable quarters that i could otherwise use for meters on class days, and i may or may not get back to my car before the meter expires. at which point i could very well get a ticket AND waste valuable quarters. and did i mention the line at the social security office? it's fucking long.
then, once i do that, i've got to go stand in line to get a new drivers license, and dude that's not fun either. i don't understand why it's so difficult to change my name, but i probably should just do it since it took me this long to finally figure out i wanted to change it, for real, and i need to do it before i can apply for financial aid. so now i have incentive. this really should not be so complicated. i would have done this months ago if it hadn't been for the new orleans people--it took them six weeks to mail our marriage certificate to us and by then the excitement of being married and acquiring a new last name had totally worn off. six weeks later, i didn't want to stand in line to change my name. at that point i had become indignant all over again about keeping my name. this obviously isn't my fault.
aside from that: we are almost finished painting the living room. half of one wall needs two more coats, and that should be done this evening. and since you people haven't had to hear me say this in awhile: i hate painting. i never want to paint anything ever again. as i finished painting wall #3 this morning i was saying awful things to the wall that it should not have had to hear. and then i thought of susan and her "fuckity fuck fuck fuck" mantra while running uphill and i felt a little bit better, because i'm not the only one who says awful things in times of self-inflicted adversity.
once the torturous painting ends, i want to find pretty curtains to go with the pretty walls. i'm trying to find tab-top panels that have red in them but aren't solid red, and a matching scarf valance. i tried to tell alvin this last night but he told me i was using words he doesn't know, like valance and tab-top, so i gave up trying to explain. he'll know what i'm talking about after the window treatments are up.
kate, i hope this satisfies your blog reading needs. i hope you and linda are still visiting this weekend. most of all, i hope there will be stalking.
this weekend i received my congratulations! you don't suck enough that we don't want you! package from UT. they totally don't hate me, they totally want me (who doesn't?) and that's a good thing. so i got that in the mail on saturday and cried all over again. dear god, the crying never ends.
now i need to apply for financial aid, but i have a dilemma. it's a minor dilemma, but still. i need to change my name, if i am actually going to change my name (i am), even though i got married almost eight months ago and i really should have done it by now. i haven't.
i need to officially change it before i start filling out paperwork that is approved by the bureaucracy that is UT and our federal government, because i have a feeling that neither of those institutions is going to be very forgiving about my name change at the point that i'm like, hey, i filled out my paperwork, now hand over my money! i really can see them saying, nope, you can't have your money, because you're not you! you're someone with a different last name!
so the name change thing, it involves standing in line at the social security office downtown. now, i tried this once before many months ago--the standing in line part--and oh my god it's not fun. i finally gave up. also, all the downtown parking spaces are metered, which means i've got to waste valuable quarters that i could otherwise use for meters on class days, and i may or may not get back to my car before the meter expires. at which point i could very well get a ticket AND waste valuable quarters. and did i mention the line at the social security office? it's fucking long.
then, once i do that, i've got to go stand in line to get a new drivers license, and dude that's not fun either. i don't understand why it's so difficult to change my name, but i probably should just do it since it took me this long to finally figure out i wanted to change it, for real, and i need to do it before i can apply for financial aid. so now i have incentive. this really should not be so complicated. i would have done this months ago if it hadn't been for the new orleans people--it took them six weeks to mail our marriage certificate to us and by then the excitement of being married and acquiring a new last name had totally worn off. six weeks later, i didn't want to stand in line to change my name. at that point i had become indignant all over again about keeping my name. this obviously isn't my fault.
aside from that: we are almost finished painting the living room. half of one wall needs two more coats, and that should be done this evening. and since you people haven't had to hear me say this in awhile: i hate painting. i never want to paint anything ever again. as i finished painting wall #3 this morning i was saying awful things to the wall that it should not have had to hear. and then i thought of susan and her "fuckity fuck fuck fuck" mantra while running uphill and i felt a little bit better, because i'm not the only one who says awful things in times of self-inflicted adversity.
once the torturous painting ends, i want to find pretty curtains to go with the pretty walls. i'm trying to find tab-top panels that have red in them but aren't solid red, and a matching scarf valance. i tried to tell alvin this last night but he told me i was using words he doesn't know, like valance and tab-top, so i gave up trying to explain. he'll know what i'm talking about after the window treatments are up.
kate, i hope this satisfies your blog reading needs. i hope you and linda are still visiting this weekend. most of all, i hope there will be stalking.
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