I've had a productive, onerous morning.
Went to H&R Block to hear about taxes. Turns out you have 120 days to pay after you file, so long as you warn them. So I'm going in next Friday to have the nice tax lady help with that call. We were going through an insolvency worksheet to see if we could tell the IRS that we were too poor to have to pay the extra tax, but the 401K I've been diligently paying into was sitting there with a nice bright "You can tap me for money!" sign on it. Plus we would have to contact every doctor to find out how much we still owe them. No, I'll take the hit, it's not worth it to scramble to get that information and to take the penalty on withdrawing from my 401K.
I'm also going to up my withholding at work, taxlady said I'm not having enough kept out, especially when a third of the lease payment is going to have to go to taxes. It's kind of horrifiying how much I resent having to give up chunks of unexpected money.
After that, to the bank to notorize the legal forms, to the Post Office to mail it off, then the doctor's office to drop off the state's annual "She's competent to drive even though she's a sickie" form.
And it's not even noon yet.
I wonder what this can mean for trans* bottom surgery. Amazing what it meant for those girls.
Possibly not much for the women, as a friend of Jilli's and mine has spoken to since her transition, with joyous TMI. Using the existing bits and bobs, the newly constructed bits and bobs are apparently pleasurably functional.
Amazing things are on the way, whether we are ethically and emotionally prepared for them or not.
Hell, we're still not ethically and emotionally prepared for gunpowder.
You won't have to print pdfs and rescan? Ok, only "bright side" I can think of.
This is true. Well, I get to do it for 3 months. By July I might be thanking my lucky stars that it's ending.
Damn, I friggin' love science!
I'm sorry to hear the bad news, Steph. I hope it all works itself out to your good.
Steph, in searching for work-at-home stuff for myself, medical editors are in really high demand. Hopefully you won't have a hard time finding something else.
I'm sorry to hear the bad news, Steph. I hope it all works itself out to your good.
Thanks. I'm just reminding myself that it's 3 months of work, which is good, and in the meantime the AMA gig is ongoing and steady (if not full time), and I can keep looking for other stuff and/or figure out if I want to go back to a 9-5 office job.
Steph, in searching for work-at-home stuff for myself, medical editors are in really high demand.
Can I ask -- what places are you looking? I may be looking in the wrong places.
I actually signed up for a month at a site called FlexJobs, which focuses on telecommuting jobs and jobs with flexible schedules. I found a coupon that made the month $5, and I figured it was worth it. They basically curate the job listings and weed out the spam.
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Obviously I don't know any details about your experience, so all of these job listings might not be relevant. If you decide you want to sign up for the site, let me know and I'll dig up that coupon code I used.
I have a feeling I will. I'm about to run out the door, but I'll check this out when I get back, and then I may shoot you an email. Thank you so much!
No problem.
I am super-grumpy girl, because I'm sick, and the interview I went to this morning was a 10-minute editing test. For which I drove half an hour each way.
