nuclear weapons in kyrgyzstan! opposition to secular programs that are publicly financed! WESBITES!

[fox]

so, i spent a tense few minutes earlier today paralyzed with fear that i'd sent the cover letter in to the data-entry job -- for which i mentioned last night that i was preposterously overqualified, which continues to be true, but which will involve proofreading and accuracy checking and quality control and whatnot -- with a typo in it.  and not just a typo, but one of those wrong-word mixups that people make but (to be honest) i usually don't.  i was talking about the few days in september when i won't be able to work, and i said i hope this will not adversely affect my application, and then for some reason earlier tonight i thought i'd said effect -- or then i thought i should have said effect but had said affect instead -- or maybe i was -- see, and after a little bit of that i was so tsedreydt i didn't know which end was up anymore, and i swear i looked them both up in the damn dictionary.

not my proudest moment.

in other news, the sticker-shock continues, but based on my estimate for what next year should cost, if i'd worked out a by-the-numbers budget for this year i wouldn't be over it, which i suppose is good to know.  i seem to have maxed out my grants at the Bank of Grandparents (it was less about me than about them -- for a little while they were divesting themselves of some of their assets with an eye toward the eventual taxes on their estate, but i guess they're done doing that now, probably focusing on their medical expenses, as they should), but my federal loans obviously won't go the whole way toward the cost of next year (in fact they won't even go halfway, which is tragic), so i'll have to do some more borrowing.  i'll get a good interest rate at the Bank of Mom and Dad, though; not 0%, because although they might get behind that, i don't want it, but not [hand-wave] whatever.  the idea is, they'll charge a rate lower than what i'd pay if i borrowed from a bank, but higher than they'd earn if they deposited in a bank, so everybody wins.  (for values of "win" that involve being in debt up to who knows where -- it'll be six figures before i'm done.  somebody saaave me ...)

i did consolidate the existing loans, though, or at any rate i applied to consolidate them, and there's no real reason i shouldn't be allowed to do so -- so the present debt will accrue interest at the present low rate, rather than going up next month.  there's something good in that.

in other other news, although i complain about them sometimes when they really do get in my way, you know?, i do like my breasts, particularly once i wise up and dress them correctly.

i'm sorry, was that TMI?

Comments

affect vs effect

[catalyst75.livejournal.com]

I find that the more time I spent on the Internet -- ok, Livejournal -- reading journals that are either not edited for typos or written by the unwashed masses, the less likely I am to catch these types of errors.

Or to be hopelessly confused by them and doubt myself, as you did.

It's like good English gets smeared in my brain if I read too much webspeak. Or, put another way, if you read it wrong 100 times a day, it's less likely to ring the alarm bells on the 101st time.

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

You'd love the book I'm flipping through right now: The Dictionary of Disagreeable English

It's basically a dictionary of every word that gets misused or misspelled, affect vs. effect, etc. He's also on a jihad against descriptive lexicographers (or laxicographers as he calls them) such as those who work at Merriam-Webster. He breaks them down into 5 categories: Misspelled of, Confused with, Misused for, Solecistic for, and Idiotic for.

[axiom_of_stripe]

i'm sorry, was that TMI?

which part -- the spelling, the money, or the breasts? ;)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

the question was referring only to the breast item. :-)

TMI? I vote no.

[corvidae9.livejournal.com]

AS a big fan of both boobs and money, I was absolutely enthalled by your entry.