I got a notice from my financial adviser that it is time to renew my FAFSA. I didn’t do it last night since I had to work today and wanted to MAKE SURE I got to bed at a decent hour in order to avoid catastrophic lateness, and I needed to do my taxes first (all done but actual filing) so I would have the information to enter on my FAFSA form.
Well, TaxAct Online is awesome and relatively hassle-free. You just fill in the info that corresponds with the numbered boxes and you’re golden.
FAFSA, however, is an eternal pain in my ass.
I believe I go through this every year…I don’t know what my PIN is and can’t find it from last year. I try a few guesses and am rejected. I try to pick it up from my last year’s email and am told that I have already picked it up once and can’t do it again. I try to guess my mystery question and fail to recall what answer I put in the year before. Finally I have to reapply for my PIN and wait 3 days until it goes through. Ugh.
On the other hand, I WAS to work on time today…although I almost had a heart-attack when I got there and found the building full of people…today was JB’s ‘Business for Breakfast’…business people can come, have pastries and coffee, listen to a few speakers and win gift-cards. However, I walked in to a store that I believed should still be closed for another 10 minutes and found it full to the brim and the registers going like crazy. I thought for a moment that I really WAS under a curse and, alarm clock sabotage having failed this week, the magic had resorted to altering the time-space continuum. It was fine, though…just an early event, I wasn’t supposed to be there early and I wasn’t late. But I freaked for a second.
