i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

I ventured out in the pouring rain to ask the cashier's office whyfor they had not sent me something I need for my loan money, and then had to walk someplace totally different to find out why financial aid didn't have my money yet. I want that five grand, please thanks (amount I'll receive post-tuition). And then it'll be three grand, because we are getting ourselves a precious, precious MacBook.

But! Despite the pay period having ended before classes started, the first check for my assistantship is in my soggy hands.

(I empathize, in other words.)

Thank you for the music! I have the Decemberists running through my head, bits and pieces of various songs, so that'll have to be my answer. One day I'll be accustommed enough to being surrounded with music that I can answer your top five questions. Today is not that day, but it's a start.