money money money!

[danaeris]

So, theoretically the magazine is paying me $300 US for the sleepwatch article. My correspondence with the textbook company I may end up doing work for indicates they will be sending me my payment for the work I did earlier this year -- and they were horrified to hear that I hadn't been paid already. That's another $300 US. My old mutual fund I am cashing out of (which was a Bat Mitzvah present) is valued at about $550 (that's it's value after more than ten years of growth from its initial value of about $300. Pathetic).

Unfortunately, that's not enough to pay off the loan I am hoping to be able to eliminate by the end of this calendar year. In fact that loan is nearly $6000. But, with another thousand dollars, if I emptied out my US funds, I'd be able to do it. Sure, I'd have to pay my other loan's payments from my Canadian funds until I made some more US $$, but perhaps not having that other bill with variable loan rates would be worth it. Oh, and getting out of having to pay all that interest over the years to come. :)

Things are looking good and exciting. I have two story ideas out to editors who might be interested from two new markets. I have one story idea I think is a sure thing for the place where I interned, and that's likely to be another $200 or $300 USD. And I have a few other ideas brewing.

I can't afford more emotional instability, though, if I'm going to keep this up. So, when I go in to see my doctor on the 20th, I'm going to ask her for a prescription for liquid paxil. I'm scared that if I start to decrease my dosage any further with the pills I have to work with, I'll get unstable, and ruin all this.

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Tomorrow I'm being picked up Too Early at 8:30 a.m. so that sassy_fae and I can go off to a massive joint garage sale on the mountain. At 12:30 we'll be headed to Cottage 13 so that I can get my piercings removed, and then it's off to Ottawa St, primarily to shop for fabric for their wedding present (custom made bedding), but also to visit the yarn store and keep an eye out for fabric to reupholster the sofa I'm inheriting.

That evening if we're not TOO exhausted, we'll go see Brothers Grimm.

Sunday I will be busy, I think. I need to review the research of a particular scientist at Mac, and I need to rewrite my resume and send it to the textbook company folk. I need to go over a document they sent me and send them my comments as to the tasks described in the document and my ability to do them. And I need to compose some questions for the scientist at Mac, and email them to him.

Keep running and eventually you'll fly.

Comments

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

i got my nose pierced at Cottage 13 shortly after they opened, it's so funny that you're going now! in general i find the idea of you living in the city where i grew up just weird, because it's the place that we all moved away from asap! why do you need a piercing place to take your things out? i have brothers grimm on dvd if you want it :)

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

It was a great day! Sorry I ran out of energy early; I fell asleep as soon as I lay down :)