August 3, 2006

• This is so weird. i am standing in Ivy Tech community college waiting for Anna to finish her assessment test. and i am smiling. alot.

  
  

  get this: i finally qualified for the FASFA thing. years of filling out random paper work have paid off. AND…i got money from the state, this supplemental thing (because they think i am really poor), and then the Federal money. So, after i have paid for this semester of classes, i have over 2 grand for books and whatever. seriously…whatever.

  
  

  I talked to the first lady and was firing all these questions. call me crazy, but free money always leaves me alittle spectical. so she explained the whole thing to me. Then i went to this other lady and was like “is this for real? where does the goverment get all this money to give me?” she just laughed. i asked her if i could use the extra money for anything…like  buying a car, and she said that’s what she’d done. Why the goverment has decided i am suddenly needy and can have 2 grand to buy a car is beyond me.

  
  

  but i like it.

  
  

  in my hand i have this paper. with it i can buy anything from the bookstore. even sweatshirts. Then, whatever i don’t use, they send me a check for in late September.

  
  

  my mind is doing sixty, trying to process this. i was planning on going to Brasil in February, but guess what…they have internet classes! so, if i sign up for 4 internet classes, i can get the grant again, still be in Brasil, and get another nice check in the mail. are they seriously going to pay me 2 thousand dollars to go to college each semester? please stop me now and bring me back to reality.

  
  

  did i miss something?

  
  

  and…with 2 grand, i’ve just paid for my next ticket to Brasil. yeah baby. thanks Washington…i think the system is finally working.

  
  

   

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