dang it.

they overpaid me for summer. I didn't catch it, because I knew that they didn't take my TIAA-CREF deduction out of my summer pay, and they had sent around a notice talking about how we were getting money back supposedly because of tax cuts, and like a FOOL I never look at the gross pay anyway.

(later)
Ah well, I'm taking it more philisophically now. The best they can do for me is (maybe, if the head honcho agrees) take it out spread over 2 paychecks rather than just one.

If I need to, I can dip into savings.

I probably won't need to, my checking account is pretty flush...it's just, I remember being a graduate student too well, and I still have "scarcity issues" (ugh, hate that word).

still, I did break the stash-diet resolution because the nice lady from Carodan Farms emailed me back to advise me that the Donegal Tweed they had was, in fact, roughly comparable (slightly lighter) to the Turnberry in weight. And as I like doing business with them, and as the Donegal was cheaper (probably) than the Turnberry would be...well, I ordered some in a chocolate brown for the Bookworm Vest.

yes, I suck. I wail about not having enough money and then go and spend some on yarn. The truth is, any and all wailing about not having enough money is me going into knee-jerk "oh my gosh, I'm all alone in the world* and I need to take care of myself and this money I expected isn't coming through and I'm going to be eating beans and rice** for the next three months, and God forbid that something goes wrong with my car or I'll have to abandon it by the side of the road and walk everywhere***" Again, because I spent too many years as an impoverished graduate student.

I need to look at the bank statement for my savings accounts when I go into that mode.

(*=not true. **=also not true. ***=Probably not true, unless it was something going wrong that was so asinine and irritating that I got fed up with the car)