It is more sensible to file for any refunds due you as soon as possible, and delay paying any tax you owe, until the last moment before you'll have to start paying interest, or be otherwise fined or penalized.

I can swallow the interest on $32. What'd have made more sense was to get it taken care of before the 15th, instead of realising that there's no way to e-file on the 15th and mail on the 15th with all the right paperwork. I should have e-filed right away, and then waited to send the cheque. As is, I've sent a jumble of paperwork, and we'll just have to cross our fingers.

Hey, want to come over and make me waffles?

Sure!

No, crap, I have to transcribe tapes.

Fine, Jesse. See if I ever make you waffles.

Chocolate as sacrament?

Yeah, I thought I was going to have that problem, but fortunately New Mexico let me direct deposit. Err, the problem of checks-in-the-mail, that is, not chocolate as sacrament. I don't think there's a direct deposit for that.

In my earlier and more paranoid days, I would be convinced that the very act of doing so would put my bank account on some sort of state agency watch list. Now I am just lazy, and figure, probably everyone else is too, and if they have the energy to monitor citizens bank accounts, then, good luck to them.

I am a bad, slacking conspiracy theorist.

I think people freak out about their taxes because it is their only form of interfacing with their government, and thereby, intimidating.

Rio, this is the reason we have a Ministry. If it's death to the stupid people, give Sean a call. Or, if it's a slight maiming, contact AmyParker. If it's a smite-ing well, I can oblige.

"Smite" was one my my vocabulary words for my class' last test Wednesday. I got the following sentence from one of my students:

"When Lucy and Bob fought, they got in a smite fight. Lucy won."

I had to count it wrong, but I nearly peed myself laughing. I also got a couple of quotes from Bruce Almighty: "Smite me, you almighty smiter!"

I gave credit for that, since they used quotes and gave citations.

Freshmen are FUN-ny.

I am fascinated by how freaked-out people get about doing their taxes. I mean people who are my peers in not owning property, not having kids, not making much money.

I fit all those categories. And I only had 10 employers in 2 states this year!

oh, and

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DREW !!!

And I only had 10 employers in 2 states this year!

Oh yeah, I meant to say only one job in my list of things that make doing your taxes easy. Ten employers = too many!!

I had to get up at 6:30am this morning so I could get to work by 8 and squeeze in at least 4 hours of work before going shopping for bridesmaid dresses. I have to leave work now. I don't wanna. This is deeply sad.

Please for to send help.

Go git yourself gussied up, half pint!

Which is to say, I've been watching the Cameron Bancroft remake of Little House On The Prairie. It's been a million years (give or take) since I read the books. Does Mrs Ingall Wilder really paint her sister as so entirely boring? I think my family would shoot me if my memoirs made my sister such a non entity. I wouldn't dare, even knowing she couldn't read.

Does Mrs Ingall Wilder really paint her sister as so entirely boring?

I'm rereading the book now, and for the most part, yeah. Practically any time anything's going on, Laura's helping the adults, or at least trying to figure out what's going on, while Mary's just sitting there watching.

Another thing that I'm noticing about the books, which I didn't notice the last time I read them (around fifth grade), is just how often Charles will be doing something, and Caroline will see a better way to do it, but not mention it until he's most of the way done, just as a, "By the way, why didn't you do it this way?" sort of thing.