Oh, you don't know the man??
Today, the man is the Student Account department at my school. They are a collection of ladies who, perhaps not themselves as people but certainly as bureaucratic drones, have a lot to say about how my financial aid money should be spent. To make a very long story short, I won't be moving in to my new place until next Friday at the earliest. Yeah, I'm pissed.
I know it's not their fault...they think they're doing the right thing, zero-ing out all my accounts and so forth. Theirs is the problem with a lot of the public (and private) bureaucracies that have become too large to be useful...the right hand has no clue what the left hand is doing. I have more money coming down the pipe. It will pay for all my debts to the school. What was leftover from this round of loans, then, was going to pay for my lease. These sweet-sounding, Midwest-nice ladies on the phone at Student Accounts didn't know about the second round of student loans coming later next month, so they and their actuarial overlords just gobbled up everything now, including my rent money. Ironically, this is what I've been jamming to in my car all day...
Now I guess it's all snark.
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