It's about 5.5 months since I graduated from that "learned" institution. It is about time to face that really big horrible elephant in the room: STUDENT LOANS. The really tricky thing about student loans is that when you first receive them, in your first tender year of school, they NEVER GIVE YOU THE SUM. The big sum. The sum that you will be looking at when you finish school. The one that you will be happily paying back for the next 30 years of your life. More like my life. If there was a rule that a person could not die until they paid back everything they owe, I would LIVE FOREVER.
On top of the impending student loan due date, my computer is broken. Yes. The brain of my computer is fried. At first I thought it was the hard drive. I was a little scared that I would lose all of my precious data. All 60 gigabytes. Actually, I have no precious data. Some of my data is rather dear to me. But, I'm not going to have a heart attack over loss of data. Data loss happened in college a few times, and I stopped having coronaries over it. Alright, I admit, I had a few sleepless nights this week when I worried about the fate of my computer. And it did not feel good. Life is already stressful, I didn't need to add on anticipated stress. Most of my worry had to do with the cost of replacement. Apple is not known for being budget-conscious. Or wallet-friendly. I was afraid that the cost of repairing my old computer would be the same or very close to the cost of a new computer. Sigh. Technology moves so fast.
It turns out that my computer was not suffering from a malfunctioning hard drive. Instead, it's the logic board. The brains of the computer. Basically, when I buy an Apply laptop, I'm buying the logic board. It is the meat of the computer. And it is dead. The replacement part is about $900. (Spits water out all over the monitor at this news). Yikes! Luckily Apple has this "flat rate" repair for $310 (excluding water damage). Wheew. I feel like $300 is a reasonable amount to pay to repair a perfectly good 4 year old computer. Yes, when I first got it, I thought I was going to be a photographer. Photoshop. Magic. Now, the most processing power I require is to run OpenOffice. And occasionally Word. But I try not to summon that evil djinn too often.
The weather has turned really cold these past two days. Cold and rainy. Yesterday, I re-weatherproofed my bedroom window. Does this mean that winter is really here? It's going to be rain and wind and cold from now on? More so than usual? My frugal nature (and sensitive skin) prevents me from turning on the little electric heater in my room except in dire circumstances. Occasionally, my wrists hurt from the cold and then I have to put on gloves or turn on the heater. I have been known to walk around looking like a bag lady, all bundled up.
It looks like the bag lady is going make a comeback. Now, hand me my woolies.
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