I've just looked at my account status for U of C - mostly to be sure that my name change went through without something strange happening - like me suddenly being masculated (I have problems with that, if only I could actually pee standing up when it happens...) or something. Anyway, the university has finally entered the 20th Century (yes, I know, we're in the 21st) and put our bills online. Bills for the fall quarter were mailed out today. They are due on 19 Sept. I don't owe them anything, they owe me a refund. Here is my conundrum: I would be expected to pay them on or before 19 September if I owed them money, yet I am expected to wait until at least 29 September to get my damn refund check (and I will be fortunate beyond belief if I can get it then). If I didn't think it would result in my records suddenly showing that I had been eaten by a yak in Inner Mongolia and am therefore no longer eligible for financial aid, I would walk in and say:

"Give me my stipend, you bitches. It's my stipend. I earned it. See this gray hair? See it? I'm 23 damn it! Give it, give it now!!!!!!!!"

But we all know, that will only lead to erroneous reports of rampaging yaks in Mongolia.