Hey, what’s up internet? So my decision to not work this summer has resulted in my not having very much money. This should not have been a surprise to me, but it somehow was! Anyway, because I didn’t get extra funding for next year (I still get my TA funding, I just didn’t get anything else) I realized I would have to borrow some money. So I sucked it up, got a one-month loan from my parents to pay off my summer tuition, and applied to OSAP so I can afford to live next year without Alex working a full time job, which enables him to buy me food sometimes. Things will be tight, but with my good friend Mr. Mastercard and some serious economizing, I should be good until September.

I’m not so concerned about how I’ll have to stop buying sundresses, but I am pretty bummed about borrowing money from my folks, even as a stopgap measure. Surprisingly bummed. I was on the phone with my mom to ask her, and she wasn’t mean about it at all, as soon as I told her what I needed she was all “I’ll go to the bank tomorrow,” right away. Because moms have your back. She sounded a little disappointed, as she knows this stopgap loan’s only a requirement because of my chosen summer of unemployment. Though maybe I was just reading her voice as disappointment because of my guilt and she was just surprised because I haven’t borrowed money from them since I finished undergrad.

I am sad that my lack of funds is keeping me here in The Coov while Alex gets to go to Toronto at the end of the month, but there’s really really nothing I can do about it now.