August 22, 2001

Decisions, decisions

Written this morning, fortunately not lost when D-land went down:

We
had rowing practice again today, and may have one Friday. We had one Monday,
though I elected to row my single instead. I don't quite understand this; the city
has scheduled us to be on hiatus until September, but Coach DI seems to be calling
special practices pretty much every time we'd have a normal practice. I think
they've missed only about two so far, though I didn't care anyway since I rowed my
single those days.

I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the
fall session or not. If I don't, though, I'm out of it for three months.
Advantages to taking the class: Theoretically, I get coached. I get to row
in a variety of boats. I get more opportunities to race. Advantages to not
taking it:
saving money while out of a job. Practically, I almost never get
coached anyway; this way I also don't have to get yelled at or bite my tongue
whenever I disagree with YSam or (especially) DI. I get as much time on the water
(in the single) as I want, instead of having to wait for everyone to get there and
get organized.

I also need to decide whether to go to a job fair
today. I don't want to, because it's downtown in the Civic Center and parking is a
bitch, and the last job fair I went to was completely lame. I think I ought to go,
though, and this fair is scheduled to have a lot more companies interviewing.
Also, it's not like there's anything else I really have to do
today.

The third decision I need to make soon is how much to pay on
my credit card. The balance isn't all that high, and I would normally have paid it
in full, as I do every month. The options are: pay the whole thing, which would
deplete my savings by about 1/10; pay some smaller amount of it and let the rest
ride; pay only the minimum until I get a new job. I just need to figure out which
makes most fiscal sense.

Ha. Diaryland seems to be down at the
moment, but I found that out when I tried to open a second window, and so I saved
this entry in Word instead of losing the whole thing. No matter what else happens
today, at least I've done one thing right!

Later note: yes, the job
fair was lame. Unless I want to become a collections agent (not bloody
likely).

Posted by dichroic at August 22, 2001 04:59 PM
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