head cold TMI

( No, really. This is a post about phlegm. )

things i learned today

1.  The date you write on the check?  Immaterial.  I thought I was being all clever, sending in my loan payment in plenty of time but with the actual due date on the date line -- this because I couldn't pay both the loan payment and the rent before getting paid this coming Friday, and the rent is due Tuesday but absolutely by Saturday (so, absolutely by next Monday), and the loan payment is due next Monday.  The cleverness of me!  Yeah, no, the loan check has been presented and paid.  I called the bank and said Dudes, you honored a check whose date hasn't arrived yet?, and they said Ma'am, we don't care about the date on the check.  Swear to god.  I'll be okay, because of the five-day grace period wrt the rent, but listen, y'all, learn from my experience, okay?

2.  I do not have strep throat.  I didn't think I did, but I e-mailed the doctor this morning -- because I can -- to say OMG head cold day four and I want to die, and she said Hmm, yeah, it's going to last a while, sorry about that, but the sore throat could be strep, come on in and have a culture.  And I said Seriously?, because I see redness but no white spots, and she said Won't always see white spots, come on in.  So I did, and it's negative.  Hurrah.  I will continue to push fluids.

3.  Dear Georgetown University:  you know, I haven't answered any of the times you've called me at 8:30 in the evening in the past several weeks, because don't you think I know it's the alumni phone-a-thon?  At what point do you just stop calling?  Bugger off.  Hoya Saxa!