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Well, I have seven more days of being broke and a fortnight and a day of being underinsured. But the fun part has been setting up my retirement account. I recommend working for the government, by the way; it's a pretty good deal. Also, I wound up working in an interesting agency in a surprisingly non-conformist division in a delightfully curmudgeonly group, in which every woman is named Jennifer.
It's weird dealing with expensive things -- like retirement -- while having ALMOST NO MONEY AT ALL right now.
The lovely unclassified computer system at work requires a magic card to function, and this magic card is available only by appointment. As far as I can tell, there is precisely one person in DC who can get this card for me, and she won't be able to see me until 11:00 on Monday (last Monday, I'd set up an appointment for 10:00, but she called today to say she wouldn't be at work yet at 10, so we changed it to 11). Meanwhile, until I get on this system, I can't get them to pay the mass transit subsidy for me to and from work. (Which, given the state of traffic on the Potomac river bridges, is almost a necessity. Though the state of traffic on the Metro is none too great either.) I think I have enough money left to do so for the next week, and I have enough gas in the car to make it to church and back this weekend, and we have peanut butter and bread, so I can probably make it through next Friday, which is payday, but it will be about as close to zero as my funds have been since high school.
Also my two walking loan agencies -- I mean, parents -- get home from their vacation tomorrow, so I can probably add to the $4000 I owe them, if necessary. So I guess I'll be ok.