You're taking the fun out of everything... making me run when I don't want to think.

My morale has just been boosted about 100%.  

Last week was the easiest/not so easiest week thus far.  Easiest in terms of academics, hardest in terms of everything in the periphery.   Oh well, George doesn't sweat the small stuff, and as they say, it's all small stuff. 

Saturday morning my bike was stolen from in front of my apartment.  Both of my bank accounts were overdrawn because of a multitude of problems, I had to ask my mom to put some emergency funds into my account.  Financial aide had me going through hoops like a retarded monkey.

I didn't have any classes today, I just have a lecture this evening, a panel symposium deal on the current financial crisis.   Because most of the faculty are not from from the United States, so it should be interesting to hear things from their point of view.  

Anyway, today I had two missions... since I'm pretty much paralyzed without a bike (much like not having a car in Texas), I went out to look for a new bike...and to settle financial aid.  I went to the office and they said they had to talk to the university's finance officer to get my transfer approved since it was not on time, so I had to wait.  In the mean time I figured I'd just go find a bike.  There is a guy that everyone goes to, so I went to his shop.  Like all shops in Italy, the hours posted is just a guide to what COULD happen, so I got there when it was supposed to open and ended up waiting about 45 minutes before the guy got there.  Ended up paying 50 euro for a bike that's not as good as my old one.  I swear the pedals and handles are for elves or something.  No gears.   It's going to suck to go up the bridge on the way to my apartment, but oh well walking.  So, yeah, up to this point I was in a pissy mood.   Then I went to the financial aid office to check the status of whatever the fuck was supposed to go on.  Found out that instead of giving me the exchange rate that the loans were supposed to disperse at in September, they're giving me the current rate...which is good... since the dollar is performing marginally better than it had a month ago, something like 8% better, that means I get an extra 700 or so bucks.   Take that financial aid.

Now to blow the cash on honey, gold, jewels, money, women, wine, cars that shine

(I don't know what you're talking about, but I think I've got an idea)

 

(IN HEAVEN, YEAH!)