The Septimus Notes

Friday, July 29, 2005

|The New Deal.|

So, after speaking with my most pragmatic friend about the new deal, the one person I expected to be wholly against it (she's mostly is), actually gave it the thumbs-up.

What's the new deal?

I'm going to change my flight dates, flying out of Paris to land in New York City (through Reykjavik, no less) the afternoon before school starts.

I'm going to stay in Jeanne's apartment for that two weeks, have an awesome New Year's Eve Party, and basically have nearly a month of vacation time in the City of Lights, which will be great since the last vacation-vacation I can recall (not including the three days I spent in Pennsylvania last winter) was London, four years ago.

I'm going to live happy because I expect the friends who might stay with me to buy me dinner during those two weeks.

I'm going to constantly second-guess this plan because it basically means losing $1800 (the $800 it will cost to have Jeanne's flat for two weeks, two more weeks of living expenses, and the fees for changing my flight [change fee plus the difference]; and the $1000 I won't be making by returning to the city and starting working).

That seems to make sense for the following reasons:

1) Both of my bosses will have left my job before I return, which means that my job may not still be there.
2) Returning, I'll have no place to live until school starts. I still do not know how I'm going to do that this summer, before I leave, and I definitely don't want to have live from couch-to-couch when I know I could have just slept in a bed all to myself in Paris.
3) If I have gotten into Yale, well, I'll need to celebrate. If I have only managed to get into [insert low Tier 1/lower than Tier 1 school here, but not naming names so as not to offend anyone], then I'll need to console myself.
4) I will still return with about $1600 in my pocket.
5) While I could make $1000 more by returning to the city, that would all be eaten up because even if I'm not staying in a hostel or something, but staying in friends' apartments (who hopefully aren't charging me anything), I would still have to eat out for almost every meal, and food is where things can become costly.

Sweet deal.

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 08:58.
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