I received my economic stimulus payment today. The IRS sent me a letter last week telling me to start expecting the check last Friday. This is two postal days later, which is astonishingly timely for government work!
I'm going to dump half of it into my IRA (yay retirement planning), and the other half is sort of retroactively covering some of the purchases I made over the past few months (DVDs are expensive...), so I suppose I've already done my part to keep consumer spending up and the economy ticking over as smoothly as can be hoped for. :-)
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In other real life news, my sister got her Masters degree on Saturday. Three cheers for Vicky!
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( The remainder of this post is a tl;dr ramble about college, depression, and UU intellectual snobbery )
I'm going to dump half of it into my IRA (yay retirement planning), and the other half is sort of retroactively covering some of the purchases I made over the past few months (DVDs are expensive...), so I suppose I've already done my part to keep consumer spending up and the economy ticking over as smoothly as can be hoped for. :-)
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In other real life news, my sister got her Masters degree on Saturday. Three cheers for Vicky!
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( The remainder of this post is a tl;dr ramble about college, depression, and UU intellectual snobbery )