money troubles, roommate troubles, and life troubles

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so our bills keeps going up. even though it's march, we still need the heat on some days, so i guess that one's not going up, just not going down as quick as we like... our internet service just doubled in price b/c the cable people who installed it neglected to inform us our original rate was a limited time 6 month special... crap...

so the deal with our bills is that amanda leaves them on the table (they're in her name) until i write her a check for half and then she mails them... both of the above are due mid-next week and i have $10 in checking right now... i get paid friday so i figured thursday i'd write a check for amanda that she could cash friday and life would be great... apparently not... instead of telling me when i came home last night, after i went to work on homework in my room, she got up and wrote me a note "lara, i need the money asap" and left it on the table... what happened to talking? blah, whatever... so i wrote her a check that withdraws on one of my credit cards (yuck... financially i'm a screwup, i know) and that's done.

i guess i can't say too much about her writing notes... every day this week she's yanked the land-line phone off the wall in the kitchen and put it in her room (she discovered this weekend she has a phone jack in her room) instead and leaves her door shut when she's gone... (1) it's my phone, i paid for it (2) when it's in her room, it's not connected to the answering machine (3) i'm halfway expecting a call between now and saturday, so for the 3rd day in a row, i went in her room just now, moved the phone back to the kitchen, only this time left her a note (she's not home right now so i *can't* talk to her) saying "dude, i'm expecting a call this week, can you please leave this connected to the machine when you're not home?"... on the whole, amanda's a nice gal... i just don't understand her one bit, and am looking forward to living with colleen and leigh... when we actually find a place for next year...

speaking of $$ issues... i have 3 months of rent and bills to pay this summer and my fellowship only goes through the end of the academic year... oops. anyone have any suggestions of what to do for june and july?

i'm going to explode this week... analysis is done, and i have class in an hour... but i give the lie groups lecture thursday (mostly ready) and the pizza seminar talk (i think it only goes 30-40 minutes instead of an hour so far... =( )on friday... those alone would be ok, but we have an algebra midterm on friday that no one's expecting to be good especially as we have 4 take home problems to go with the in class part of the test and no one's solved any of those yet... not encouraging as i haven't had time to look at the problems yet!!!

aye yai yai.

if i make it through friday, that'll be a very good thing.