Got an email from financial aid today. I have a loan that I have been waiting on since last semester but didn't really push too much because I always figured it would show up one day and at the time I wasn't desperate for it (since it was mainly for this semester + Brazil)...was having finaid get it to go through, retroactively apply it to fall semester, and get me the leftover money for living & medical expenses for this semester, since I won't be able to work for awhile.

Well, he says that although they have had all the necessary junk since September, the loan window for fall semester is closed, they say, as of 12/19, and they will give me no such money. They make me want to growl, except I don't do that, cause my 4-year-old niece does that and it's a very annoying habit. Hopefully the dad can straighten this out when he gets into town later this evening.

Time to go put on a few extra pairs of socks so that my feet don't freeze into solid ice chunks while finishing packing (yeah I talk about packing a lot. Mainly 'packing' consists of going through my stuff and saying, huh, why do I have this? Or hmmm, I should really organize this while I'm doing this. Etc. Etc. Etc. Thus nothing gets accomplished. Perhaps I should pay a monkey $2 and have it finish the job for me, it would probably take it about 10 minutes, not including laundry-time.)