Rotate the foodstuffs!

Well, I found out today that there's a very good reason I've felt too tired to do much outside of the absolute necessities, which, sadly, does not include LJ.  The reason, basically, is that this quarter has been the absolute pits for me, health-wise.  Allow me to elaborate.

( Health History and Treatment! )

In other news, I admitted defeat on the financial front.  When I was first applying to grad schools back in fall of '03, I remember Danielle told me that if I paid to go to grad school, I was doing something wrong.  And I took that to heart.  For the two years I was down in Louisiana, I had no reason not to continue to run with that idea, since I was living high on the hog (wastefully, too).  But now that I'm up here, I've had to sit back and re-evaluate.  I have tried SO hard these past two months, I really have.  My monthly dropped by about 50% when I moved up here, and I have gotten so close.  With a couple of exceptions, I have been a very, very good boy, have constantly said to myself "No, Mike, you don't need <insert anything not a necessity here>."  And here's the plain fact of the matter: I still can't hack it.  Rent, utilities, car note, insurance, once you take out those big chunks I'm left with a tiny amount to live off of, and I can't fit the pieces together.  So I have re-evaluated the dictum (which I still think is valid, especially in my new reformulation) as "if you're paying tuition do go to grad school, you're doing something wrong."  And I'm not paying tuition, I just need a couple hundred more a month (basically enough to pay off my credit card debt, sigh).  So I just filled out my FAFSA online; the woman in the Student Financial Aid office says it should be a little more than a two-week turnaround.  I'll steal from my own savings until then.