I had my meeting with the re-admissions committee today and I have been re-admitted to law school. I’ll return for the next semester which starts in January. I have to retake a couple of classes. I’m not thrilled with having to do that since it will probably mean it will take me an extra semester to graduate. Of course graduating one semester later is better than never. Both of the classes are important bar subjects so I do need to know them. Taking them a second time should make them pretty easy. Since this week is Thanksgiving week I have to wait until next week to finalize all the details. The important thing though is I’m back in.
Andy Hough
Transferred Student Loan to Credit Card
One of my credit cards sent me a balance transfer offer for 6.99% with no transaction fee. Since my private student loan is at 11.75% I decided to go ahead and transfer it to the credit card. The loan balance is just a little over $1000 right now and I hope to pay it off by the end of the year. If I do pay it off that quick the lower interest rate won’t make much difference but since it didn’t cost anything to transfer I figured I might as well save whatever little bit of interest I can.
Opting Out of Christmas
It is that time of year when people start giving me things I don’t really want or need and in exchange I have to buy them something they probably don’t really want either. The entire gift-buying thing is crazy to me. That is why I’ve opted out of it. I just tell my friends not to buy me anything and in return I will not buy them anything and we’ll come out even. The only person I get a gift for is my mother because she will get me a gift even if I tell her not to. The concept of Christmas without gifts doesn’t work for her. This works ok for me because I still retain a little bit of the gift-giving tradition of Christmas without having to get into the crazy gift-buying thing.
October Income
Here is a breakdown of my income for October.
|
Job Income |
$1879.38 |
|
Surveys |
$20 |
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Online Income/Ebay |
$15.79 |
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Interest |
$1.30 |
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Total |
$1916.47 |
My income was down a little this month. This was due both to fewer hours at my job and less alternative income. Both should be up this month and my overall income should be over $2000 this month.
December Marathon
I plan to run a marathon next month. I was going to run a marathon last month but never got on track with training. I still haven’t started running on a regular basis but I have a month and a half to get ready for the marathon. This is enough time to get in shape to finish the marathon but not enough time to be able to finish the marathon in a good time.
This will be my fifth marathon and they have all been in different states. I hope to someday have the 50 states and D.C. completed. I’ll have to pick up the pace eventually because one marathon a year won’t get that done.
The marathon I’m going to run is going to be held on Dec. 30th at 2 pm. This should work in my favor because the cold weather makes it easier to run. You get too cold if you stop running. Also I’m not a morning person so the usual early morning start time of marathons doesn’t work as well for me as this afternoon start should. I’ll keep you updated as the marathon nears.