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Good karma I would guess, sb. ;)

Yes it is!

Talk about good karma, I got paid yesterday, but the amount was a bit less than I had calculated. In fact, it was exactly the price of the laptop I wanted to buy that night, give or take a couple bucks! But of course I need money to live on till next payday in two weeks, so I can't buy the laptop now.

I was sharply disappointed, but I tried to tell myself that holding on to the cash now was better anyway, as it's several month's expenses around here. Plus at this point they have nearly finished the Residency Visa, so if there were any catastrophic change in employment venue (unlikely), they would bargain the Residency visa (which another school can pick up and hold for me) in exchange for me leaving on good terms with good notice.

Well just tonight two of the yahoos tried some little pressure deal, it was pretty lame, one of my classes got a bit noisy, and they tried to pretend it was a madhouse, so they changed my next class at the last minute and gave me the quieter class. But it was the looks they gave, plus they tried these attitudes and curt sentences and body language, clearly trying to convince me it was this big deal (it wasn't, and the class went just as I planned it, just that those kids kind of shout when they read out loud, which I don't mind, as long as they read the material, which they were doing).

Well anyway, sitting there with so much cash in my pocket I just didn't care, and didn't have to stress at all. So I thought it was fortunate my pay day was just under the price for the laptop, instead of just over it, in which case I would have bought the laptop, but then been stressed out at politics the next day! So now I will be holding on to that cash until I have double that amount, it's so much more soothing than a laptop whenever someone tries to stress you out!