Focus

It's been a while since my last post. I have been saving money, making money and investing money, some of it legal. Back to school meant to me the end of  a long summer of no income; my funding would feed my minimally nourished  line of credit. Why I didn't work all summer is expressed earlier in blog post but in a nut shell I didn't work.

Plan B
I learned, along with many other broke students types, the Provencal  government data base that was in charge of telling the humans who to fund  hit a 'glitch;' rhymes with bitch, in the ditch ...you know, not rich.  Thousands of students were not receiving their money...yet. For me I would delay purchasing that roast I'd been eying and settle again for TVP. After weeks the government of Alberta offered us emergency loans only if we really needed the money;  so first we had to prove, we students who qualify for government funding to begin with really were busted.

"Here here, students we have messed with, fill in these 6 pages and go down to an office wait in line, come early and bring print outs of your bank account balances for the last two months and we will maybe give you a loan against your money we owe you". Then when we get things sorted, we will take the loan amount off your regularly scheduled funding.

Hm-mm I side stepped this offer, in the end I could read between the lines, and couldn't stand in one to get what was already mine. It would have been like dating my ex. I knew sooner or later I would get the funding; I had to be patient or I could easily become one.

There are many students who are in dire straights and getting the money a bit faster without me in line might help. These students have kids to feed, are new to our country in some cases and second language speakers. Giving them a bunch of forms to fill in, having them run around literally students like us often have no time and no car, is poor customer service. Arrange babysitting of course right and  remember study. I can tell you this week the Government reported, boasted sort of, they had paid out over $500,000 in loans to 600 individuals. That about $830 bucks each. Whoot! What a fuck up.

Eva Pea