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Today is a financial paperwork day. I hate them more and more as time goes on. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the missing receipts, mistakes, exceptions to rules, and crack-addled PhDs who can't fill out a travel form to save their lives. Unfortunately that's about 50% of the items I deal with. If I were staying in this job, I would have to stage a revolt about the financial piece of it.
We are leaving for Athens at dawn on Wednesday, and there are oodles of things to do. I am trying to do some of them, but they are acting like jello and refusing to be nailed down; or, alternately, being impossible. Like, unfortunately we cannot tour any public schools since school ended for the year LAST WEEK so they are all closed for teacher education. And, the person at the Parent Resource Center will not tell me if any schools have wait lists for kindergarten yet, or which ones do if any do.
I am tired and stressed out and not hopeful about the houses we're going to see. I feel like we have few options in terms of where we want to be; there are some borderline location infill/new construction houses that look okay, but I don't really want a new house. There's nothing old that's big enough (by which I mean more than 2br/100 sq ft) that's even remotely possible in terms of neighborhood that we can afford, and the price point for old/big enough/passable location starts a good $75K above our highest possible price. I don;t want to compromise, damn it. And I especially don't want to compromise without some guarantee of getting into the public school I want. If we have to compromise, why don't we go all the way and live in a goddamned cul-de-sac and I can have my screen porch, you know?
We are leaving for Athens at dawn on Wednesday, and there are oodles of things to do. I am trying to do some of them, but they are acting like jello and refusing to be nailed down; or, alternately, being impossible. Like, unfortunately we cannot tour any public schools since school ended for the year LAST WEEK so they are all closed for teacher education. And, the person at the Parent Resource Center will not tell me if any schools have wait lists for kindergarten yet, or which ones do if any do.
I am tired and stressed out and not hopeful about the houses we're going to see. I feel like we have few options in terms of where we want to be; there are some borderline location infill/new construction houses that look okay, but I don't really want a new house. There's nothing old that's big enough (by which I mean more than 2br/100 sq ft) that's even remotely possible in terms of neighborhood that we can afford, and the price point for old/big enough/passable location starts a good $75K above our highest possible price. I don;t want to compromise, damn it. And I especially don't want to compromise without some guarantee of getting into the public school I want. If we have to compromise, why don't we go all the way and live in a goddamned cul-de-sac and I can have my screen porch, you know?