cornerofmadness

so that might put a crimp in ye old vacation reporting.

Today was a day of many frustrations beginning with an energy level too low to accomplish much. I think I forgot to mention last post that when I did the new way of applying for an income based repayment program it applied it to ALL my loans and not just the loan I wanted. I had to call Navient up and say thanks for reducing my repayment to 65$ but I don't want that. The interest accruing will kill me. They did put it back to my usual 285$.

However the loan that I wanted it on hasn't even processed it yet. Go figure. American Education Success sucks donkey. I did get a helpful fellow who put me over to the place where you can get loan forgiveness for working for a non profit. My school IS a non-profit. Now AES has told me for years I don't qualify. Turns out it wasn't exactly a lie but it was very misleading. I might qualify IF I reconsolidate my loan as a direct one which will not change my interest rate (too bad because 10% is insane) and it might be possible to get a BETTER income repayment program. But I have to do this without missing a payment for TEN years. This means a) if I leave this college I have to go to another non-profit school b) I miss a payment and I'm fucked c) if they had done this when I first tried I'd be almost DONE by now. But at the end I won't have to repay the rest of the loan.

I'm both angry and relieved. It might be possible to get out from under this mess.

United Health care called me and their audit matched mine. I owe 280 on my deductible. I'll fill my pills and be done with it.

I can mention now the work thing. The dean of arts and science has been promoted to associate provost and one of my friends is now interim dean with no one advertising for the position etc. No one is going to be happy about this because she's an English prof who has on more than one occasion boasted about never having a college math course and that she hates science. Now the last guy was a music prof so we're used to this. I can only hope she listens to us because math/science is the most expensive and hard to handle because of the labs. It would be nice to have someone from our department in this. There wasn't going to be a job search but so many complaints are already in they've changed that. I'm really disappointed by this (also I do NOT want this job, just saying).

I talked to Honda about my dying a/c. It's 150$ just to test for it. Sigh.

Huge storm rolled in and lightning hit the internet tower. God knows when I'll get it back. If nothing else, it gave me time to edit my charity story. I'll drag it to the office to send it off to ELD.