Check, please!

A student loan check, that is. Also, not having to WRITE a check to the CHIPS program (comprehensive health insurance through the State of Illinois) for around $400 a month.

Yeah, I give up. I am taking classes next semester. I think I'll be quitting the BP, soon. I have to work Wednesday night (I think Wednesday, anyway). They only scheduled me for 6 hours this week. Not worth it! I just hate the damned job.

So, back to school. I got a cool schedule, though. I have an on-line course for which I only have to meet at the Naperville campus 3 times all term (it's a topic course and, frankly, I really don't care, but it's on law and business in literature -- I'm betting Bleak House or Martin Chuzzlewit will show up). I have an independent reading for which I never have to come to campus (thank you, Dr. Giles -- I love him! Steinbeck it is. Yeah!). And I have a methods course in English as a Second Language being taught through NIU at the fargin' WCC campus! YEAH!!! So, once a week I have to go to Sugar Grove, three times in the next semester, I have to go to Naperville, and I'll need a little library time to write what I assume will be a 20-page paper on something Steinbeck for Dr. Giles. I won't cheat. I really will write a fresh paper and read something other than East of Eden.

Yeah. I'm so obnoxious. I will probably die long before my student loans are paid in full. Whatever. I asked my parents what they thought about me going to law school. They, like me, figure I'll die long before I have to pay this stuff off. Without any kind of an estate, well, can't get blood out of a turnip!

[DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER OF GOING TO LAW SCHOOL ...yet...]