Today has been a better day. I finally read my friend's dissertation (very, very cool project), which I had promised to do several weeks ago. It felt so good to email my comments to her. Then ecogeoman and I went to the botanic garden for about 30 minutes. It would have been longer but we got a little lost getting there and we didn't have much time left before sunset. It was cold, but the whole place was blanketed in thick snow and it was quiet and beautiful. On the way home, we picked up Indian take-out (yum!). After dinner, we went for another walk since the one at the garden was cut short. Now I think I'm going to start my tax return, which sounds suckful but will feel good if I do it without procrastination.
I think that part of the reason I was so upset yesterday is that I had been alone for two days straight. I stayed home on Friday (when it snowed) while Ecogeoman went to work at work. Then on Saturday, I went to work and not another soul was there. I got home that evening feeling really icky. I don't consider myself a people person, but I'm not a loner either so too much time by myself is not good.
ETA (2/3 9:03): I did a first run through my taxes and it looks like I will owe a little. Not as much as last year, but more than I thought. sigh... I'll get a second or third opinion (i.e. use another service) before I file. There's always confusion about the tuition waiver.
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I've also noticed on occasion that being all alone for too long is not good for my mood - glad you are doing better today!
Glad you're feeling better! A botanical garden covered in snow sounds beautiful...
I'm the same way. I like my alone time, but I also need some people time. I hope it all works out with the taxes. From what I understand a tuition waiver is not income or a scholarship, but I never know how to count it either.
If the tuition waiver never entered your pockets, I don't think you have to count it at all (but you can't claim the tuition as an expense either).
I love being alone, but only if it's through choice. So yes, 2 days of enforced solitude would get to me too.
The Botanical garden sounds lovely. Is there anything sprouting yet where you are? I noticed the first snowdrops and tree leaf buds last week. There's light at the end of the tunnel!
Yep, around here a tuition waiver is not income, because you couldn't spend it on something else if you wanted to. I looked it up once. But I don't think it ever once entered my taxes, since it never even comes to us; it's a fiction between the department and the U.
I get a form 1099-T, so I feel like I need to enter the information somewhere. But it's more complicated than that for me, because it's not actually a waiver, but is paid by my fellowship, but I get the 1099-T, but...
What is up with the 1098-T? I am so confused about what to do with my tuition waiver. I filed my taxes before they came in the mail and I already have my tax return but I'm just keeping it in the bank letting it accrue [a steadily decreasing amount of] interest in case I have to give some of it back. I have to file a 1040-X, but I want to use an online calculator before I tackle it on paper. Which online filing services have you tried?
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