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   Sunday, June 01, 2003

BITCHING AND LOANING

Since my wildly expensive trip to Los Angeles, the poverty mosquitos have been biting harder than usual (you may have noticed the complaining!). Part of the problem is that, back in 1999, I began paying off a $10,000 student loan -- the one that paid mostly for the two years at York that taught me absolutely nothing and not counting the year at U of T that was really helpful but too expensive to continue with. Nearly $300 a month has been sucked out of my coffers (and it's as painful as that sounds) since then.

Today, I grudgingly pulled up my Internet banking site to see just how bad things are, only to see that the balance of my loan is $994. I couldn't believe it. My massive loan is now less than a thousand dollars and I've paid over nine thousand in the last four years.

After a decade of living on Kraft dinner and fending off collection agencies, I feel as though some actual progress has been made and that maybe, just maybe, my financial situation will improve at some distant point. Why, it's almost enough to give one hope.