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Birthday today.
Can't Sleep.
Birthday's almost over.
Its been an amazing past 5 weeks. I really want to start a paper journal so that I can write down the day to day stuff thats been happening. I was feeling really down a few days ago because I didn't know where I was going to find the money to go to school. I thought it would be in the settlement, but the lawyer told me it wouldn't be in until the end of January. So I sold a piece of gear on ebay, it sold but that money isn't going to come for another week. I was every time I thought I had it solved, something else came up. I was so upset I couldn't talk to anyone, couldn't even watch TV. So I took a nap hopping to feel better afterwards.
To my annoyance I was woken up by my cell phone ringing. The voice on the other end sounded cheerful, so I tried to force out a happy tone. "Tommy, we want to give you five hundred dollars tomorrow, is that ok?" Uhhhhh....yeah. That was going to be the exact amount I needed to register for classes. So the next day I go and had a session with dave and afterwards picked up the money and went straight to school.
So I get to Middlesex to register. Theres a slight wait in the hall way, no chairs. My knees where shaking a little bit from pain and a little bit from excitement. I finally make it into this tiny room with a counter and a thick piece of glass that separates us from them. There was some girl next to me who was on her cell phone getting really annoyed with her teller. I hoped I didn't get that teller when she was done.
To my relief I got a man who instead of conducting business through a tiny hole in the glass decided to come out from behind the door and talk to me. I handed him the appropriate materials and asked if I could be put on a payment plan. "Heres the thing with the payment plan", he said to me with his stale breath, "Its already begun, so your gonna owe 2 payments, and the third is gonna be on monday." As in Monday in 6 days, the third installment is due. I pondered for a moment as to how i was going to come up with an extra $350 for January's payment and immediately concluded to just go with the flow. So I agreed to the stale-breath-man's terms and walked out a registered student with schedule in hand.
My sister had made arrangements that day to buy her books so we met after I registered and she was excited to exclaim that the government had given her more money than she needed for classes and books. She was very eager to show me her brand new pink backpack. Now up until this point I had just assumed that I was not going to have books this semester. I just assumed I would get them later, or that I would borrow someones, or something to that effect. She had agreed to put the rest of the governments money towards my books. So I stand in line and this short winded man takes my schedule and runs up and down this little hall collecting my books. Six books in all weighed about 50 pounds. We get up to the register and Susie proceeds to inform the cashier of our situation and after a minute or two my books go from $350 to $105. So I reached in my wallet and to my surprise there $120, just enough to cover the books and buy my sister lunch.
I had forgotten that that week i had sold a crappy laptop on craigslist. Talk about walking in faith. I went to Middlesex unsure of what was going to happen, I walked out registered with books. God is good!
And if that weren't enough...I get home that night and realize my phone had been on vibrate and i missed a few calls. Check my voice mails and my lawyer had called. "Hey Tom, got a check here for you, I'll see you tomorrow." The settlement check was in.
The next day (birthday) I made my way to naugatuck to pick up the check and deposited it asap. It will clear in 2 days, plenty of time for monday when the installment for school is due.
This is the beginning of a new life for me.
Can't Sleep.
Birthday's almost over.
Its been an amazing past 5 weeks. I really want to start a paper journal so that I can write down the day to day stuff thats been happening. I was feeling really down a few days ago because I didn't know where I was going to find the money to go to school. I thought it would be in the settlement, but the lawyer told me it wouldn't be in until the end of January. So I sold a piece of gear on ebay, it sold but that money isn't going to come for another week. I was every time I thought I had it solved, something else came up. I was so upset I couldn't talk to anyone, couldn't even watch TV. So I took a nap hopping to feel better afterwards.
To my annoyance I was woken up by my cell phone ringing. The voice on the other end sounded cheerful, so I tried to force out a happy tone. "Tommy, we want to give you five hundred dollars tomorrow, is that ok?" Uhhhhh....yeah. That was going to be the exact amount I needed to register for classes. So the next day I go and had a session with dave and afterwards picked up the money and went straight to school.
So I get to Middlesex to register. Theres a slight wait in the hall way, no chairs. My knees where shaking a little bit from pain and a little bit from excitement. I finally make it into this tiny room with a counter and a thick piece of glass that separates us from them. There was some girl next to me who was on her cell phone getting really annoyed with her teller. I hoped I didn't get that teller when she was done.
To my relief I got a man who instead of conducting business through a tiny hole in the glass decided to come out from behind the door and talk to me. I handed him the appropriate materials and asked if I could be put on a payment plan. "Heres the thing with the payment plan", he said to me with his stale breath, "Its already begun, so your gonna owe 2 payments, and the third is gonna be on monday." As in Monday in 6 days, the third installment is due. I pondered for a moment as to how i was going to come up with an extra $350 for January's payment and immediately concluded to just go with the flow. So I agreed to the stale-breath-man's terms and walked out a registered student with schedule in hand.
My sister had made arrangements that day to buy her books so we met after I registered and she was excited to exclaim that the government had given her more money than she needed for classes and books. She was very eager to show me her brand new pink backpack. Now up until this point I had just assumed that I was not going to have books this semester. I just assumed I would get them later, or that I would borrow someones, or something to that effect. She had agreed to put the rest of the governments money towards my books. So I stand in line and this short winded man takes my schedule and runs up and down this little hall collecting my books. Six books in all weighed about 50 pounds. We get up to the register and Susie proceeds to inform the cashier of our situation and after a minute or two my books go from $350 to $105. So I reached in my wallet and to my surprise there $120, just enough to cover the books and buy my sister lunch.
I had forgotten that that week i had sold a crappy laptop on craigslist. Talk about walking in faith. I went to Middlesex unsure of what was going to happen, I walked out registered with books. God is good!
And if that weren't enough...I get home that night and realize my phone had been on vibrate and i missed a few calls. Check my voice mails and my lawyer had called. "Hey Tom, got a check here for you, I'll see you tomorrow." The settlement check was in.
The next day (birthday) I made my way to naugatuck to pick up the check and deposited it asap. It will clear in 2 days, plenty of time for monday when the installment for school is due.
This is the beginning of a new life for me.
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