But not for long.
I was just trying to get onto the student loan site.
I need to apply for a Grad Plus Loan.
I have done this once before, last summer when I was in practicum and realized that it was a two credit course, aka, about $2200 that I needed to come up with in order to pay for the supervision that I needed to begin seeing clients.
The school told me what to do and I did it.
I barely remembered doing it, but today when I went and checked in with the financial aid department they gave me the same instructions.
And yes.
My package that I was granted is $3,000 shy.
So.
Off to http://www.studentloans.gov to get me some more money.
Except, I swear, that they need like the name of my first-born child, a lock of hair from a unicorn mane, a sprinkle of fairy dust, me to click my heels three times in precision and spin around in my kitchen, to get into the damn system.
It’s happened every single time that I have tried to utilize it that it won’t accept the password that I have for it and then it freezes up.
So.
First.
I have to reset the password for the umpteenth time.
Then.
I am told that I have to wait 30 minutes.
What the fuck.
Come on.
You have my social security, my birthdate, my three, THREE, challenge questions, my mother’s maiden name, and my phone number.
Isn’t that fucking enough?
Meh.
Anyway.
Glad to know that I can apply for some more debt, hahaha, sigh, but that it is a resource is a comfort.
Plus.
In my visit I found out that I don’t have to worry about my exit interview to graduate with my Master’s Degree as I have registered for my PhD program as well as having accepted the financial aid package that the school put together for me.
That was good news.
The not so good news.
UGH.
Another motherfucking piece of paperwork has surfaced that I have to get signed.
I do not understand why the hell the school doesn’t give each fucking student a packet of the papers that need to be filled out to each cohort as they come in.
Then I could just pull it out, get it signed and turn it back in.
This whole trying to figure out what I need to get to them is frustrating as fuck.
Listen people.
I have gotten straight A’s and am on track to continue that with the papers I turned in and the presentations I have done, plus I have given you a fuck ton of money.
Stop it already.
Seriously.
So.
I got the two pieces of paperwork from the office and I have them in my folder and one I will get filled out next Saturday when I go to Group Supervision and the other I will have to wait and see until I get a reply from my supervisor that I no longer meet with.
I am going to be hella bummed if he asked me to come in early on Monday.
I am looking forward, in a really dreamy sort of way, to actually sleeping in on Monday.
But.
If I have to go in on Monday morning to get the paperwork signed I will.
I’m sorting of hoping that I’ll be able to do it at another time.
We shall see.
I may not even hear back from him until Monday, his work week is Monday-Thursday, he always takes a three-day weekend.
Private practice goals!
Speaking of.
It felt so good to share with the cohort that I had gotten a private practice internship, it was such a nice way to start the weekend.
As well as reflecting to them how much I have grown and grown up.
I compared it to starting the program riding my bicycle to school.
Then I got a scooter.
And today, well, I drove to school in my car.
And found parking!
So nice.
I reflected how far I have come and how much work I have done and I’m pretty fucking amazed.
Of course.
There are a lot of folks who helped me a long the way, some in small ways, some in grand ways.
I am reflecting on my best friend and the support I have gotten and the love for doing the work I am doing and the reflection that I am good at what I do and that I should absolutely go for my PhD.
It means so much that love and support.
I am so grateful for it all.
And grateful that this is it!
This is the last weekend of the program.
Today was the first day, I have two left.
And already a slight change in plans.
A friend of mine in the cohort and I have chosen to skip the closing ceremony and just go out to dinner the two of us.
She’s such a dear friend that I would rather spend the time with her then saying good-bye to people, though I do like them, do not measure up to the friendship we have created these past years.
She lives out-of-state too, so yeah, dinner at Schmidt’s with her tomorrow night instead of the closing ceremony.
I was ambivalent about it anyway.
My closing ceremony will be commencement and my graduation beach bonfire party.
That’s where it’s at for me.
And.
Hopefully I have given the Student Loans Government site enough time to reset.
Fingers crossed I get my new password correct.
Heh.
Auntiebubba 