Overdrafts ‘R’ Us
A couple of days ago I went out into town to get my fast growing mop on top of my head trimmed and also to buy Guild Wars. I sort of hit a snag when I got out money and realised it was the last £10 that was allowed on my overdraft. My town plans were pretty much ruined, so I went home, defeated. Further thought revealed that the extent of the situation was not only that I couldn’t get a haircut and the game, but even if I didn’t pay the electricity that I owed to my housemates I was unable to get home for Christmas, let alone going to London to see my dad and buying any sort of presents for people! Even worse, I didn’t have enough money to buy food for myself past another week anyway. Sort of a depressing outlook, as I’m fairly conservative with my money, so far this year I haven’t bought a single luxury item. My cool professional gaming mouse sort of counts, but in my defence my previous mouse sort of died. Special thanks to the support from my housemates, who offered me money to tide me over until my loan came in. Particular thanks go to Luke who gave me money so that I could enjoy the Indian meal to celebrate Matt’s birthday and Matt who gave me money to go to the cinema. As the prospect of spending Christmas on my own with nothing to eat didn’t particularly appeal to me I set off to the bank yesterday to ask for an extension on my overdraft. Luckily the woman who served me was particularly understanding about my plight and obliged on extending it. In fact, she told me that another student came in earlier asking the same thing. Made me feel a bit better.
Oh and as you can see, Last.Fm likes to translate all the Japanese artists that I listen to back into Japanese text, which is sort of neat to look at but means you can’t really understand it.