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So we've all learned by now that I'm not very good at writing regularly. Well, sorry about that. I'm like that with phone calls and e-mails too. I stay way to busy to have time to do all this stuff. I do these when I have the time and the energy at the same time.

I told you I'd tell you about camp. Not much to tell really. 9 of us went. We ate terrible food, climbed .25 mile up hill with 3 flights of stairs every time we wanted to go back to our campsite, and did some cool stuff like whitewater rafting and canoeing, caving and rock climbing, and low and high ropes courses. It was a good trip, but I don't think I'll be going to camp next year. Since I didn't have a ob this summer, I really, really need to have one next summer.

Since I have a moment now between driving kids to summer school and going to the dentist, I'm going to take a second to share a story. My goal, honestly, is to know that I'm not alone in this situation, that it happens to other people too...

Financial Aid. Vital to any college education. Essential for any student. Guaranteed for every student at my school. Or so I thought.

My award letter came in the mail about a month ago. Unfortunately, it was blank! It said I owed over 13K! Of course, I panicked. How am I supposed to come up with $13,000 without an income???

Day 2. I called the financial aid office. No answer.

Day 3. I called the financial aid office. No answer. I decided to utilize my connections in other offices, so I give a good friend of mine a call. She says she'll find out what's going on. Evidently (having trouble with this word...), it's impossible to receive no financial aid. *Phew!* Less than half an hour after hanging up with my friend, I get a call from the head of the financial aid office. As it turns out, I'm one of those compicated cases. They have to file extra paperwork and jumps through flaming hoops - the works. "It'll be done by the end of the week." - Her last words to me.

Three weeks later. Still no letter. She said it'd be done by the end of the week weeks ago!

One more week goes by. I finally call the school again. The director of financial aid kindly takes my call. "It's not in today's pile. It'll go out on Monday." Well, yesterday was "Monday". I won't know until tomorrow if it actually got out yesterday. My trouble lies in that I'm trying to buy a car...except that I don't know how much money I have until I know how much I owe the school. Most students knew an entire month ago. I'm still in the dark.

Please tell me that someone else out there is "a complicated case" ...

!!!     Going to be late for the dentist. Got to go!

-SC