There are some good things to note first: Sydney let me know he thinks he’s coming today. As I write, he should be somewhere over the Atlantic, relaxing a bit after a stressful couple of days. We’ll just hope he can get through Detroit and home before midnight without further incident.
But I’m fuming because I just got a form in the mail letting me know that Cornell withheld a big chunk of Sydney’s summer fellowship last year, an amount that has to be figured into the 2007 taxes. If you hadn’t noticed, it’s currently March 11, one month before taxes are due. I finished taxes a couple of weeks ago. Now I have to do them OVER. *@#%(*@%^#(* Cornell! There was absolutely no indication that cash had been withheld, since Cornell doesn’t think it necessary to let its students know how much they should expect to get at any given time, much less send a respectable notice via postal mail. Good grief I’m annoyed. Well, so much for getting a good bit of work done before Sydney comes home this evening . . .
Erin
Alan Schmierer
I’m so sorry! I fought the IRS for a lousy $46 out of principle last summer. Not much fun.
Thankfully, I started to laugh at myself after about 10 minutes of “Ack! I can’t believe them! Ack!” Getting to the point where I amuse myself is a good sign 🙂 But yeah, this is several hundred dollars of already-paid taxes, so I’ll do the work. But I think I only have to do some of the final questions of the fed over again, once I looked into it a bit more–for which I’m grateful! I guess this is the punch line of “What do you get when you cross a Canadian and a control freak?” 🙂
Erin