Through the Stars

I am feeling ways about them.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you may remember that back in 2017 my Grandmother, for whom my Mother and I’d been caring for for nearly a decade, died suddenly. This lead to me having to halt, and then quit my degree. At the time, I was contacted by Student Finance about overpayments for both my and my Mother’s degrees.

Because at the time I was grieving, dealing with my family, dealing with paperwork, and dealing with the house, when I contacted my Uni to ask about this and they said they’d handle it, I trusted them. I never got another letter about overpayments in the next 4 years, so I assumed they’d done what they said they had.

Clearly, they didn’t.

Altogether, I have to pay back about £5000.

I do not have £5000. In installments, or one go, I do not have £5000. We’ve been in a pandemic, and still are. We’ve been paying rent and bills with only our savings and no income for the past year and a half as we wait for the UK govt to, for once, act in the best interest of the people. At most, currently, I have £800 and I can’t waste a drop of it. I’m interviewing at a WFH job currently, but I might not get it, and even if I do, it’s not stable or paid enough to make this possible.

I’m writing this post as I’m still in the ‘shock’ of this, but I can feel the fear creeping up my chest, and the anger that I was never contacted about this in the past when this could have been fixed. But I’m also resigned. This past year has just….battered me, I can hardly be surprised that this would crop up this morning.

Any help toward this goal is appreciated, if you can, please give at THIS LINK.

If you can’t/don’t want to give (believe me, I’m more than aware of how COVID has obliterated finances), could you please share this? Thank you.

Hi, it's me.

Men are ruining my life.

Let me explain: My roommate was getting to know this guy and was telling him stories about me.

Pretty early on, the roommate mentions my name, Jubilee.

And the guy goes "Oh, I get it!"

"Get what?" She asked.

And the guy says, "Oh, Jubilee. Because... Because they're an eX-man. Isn't that why they picked it?"

[spluttering]

That is a better joke than I have ever written in my life! About transition or about anything! And a cisgendered straight man wrote it!

How did I not come up with that first?! It's my name!

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"Is that a command? "