I am choked!

I checked my bank account last night to see if my last two student loan cheques had cleared properly and discovered that the problem with the post-dated cheque that should not have been processed is still not resolved. They gave me the money back last Saturday and I thought everything was OK. But as of yesterday they turned around and took it back since now there is money in my account because I got paid. I've already issued yet another replacement cheque to the student loan people so I'm out $500 again. That's my food and entertainment for the next four weeks. Fucking idiots. I'm leaving work early today to go yell at them again. Only this time I don't mean it figuratively - I full intend to yell at someone today. I was reasonable the first two times I went in. I've already wasted two hours on this, and after today it will be three, not to mention the $20 my landlord dinged me for the NSF cheque and all the greif I had to endure from the student loan gestapo. I'm fucking well right bloody pissed-off!

The saga continues.

Apparently the student loan people received the money and it hasn't been returned. They've ripped me off for $500. Isn't that just lovely. The bank has contacted them directly to get the money back. Meanwhile I still have enough money for rent, but nothing else.

And as a fun little sideline my ISP has fucked up as well. I was charged waaaay to much for my ADSL line. At first glance I thought I was being surcharged for bandwith but when I checked the fee schedule I realised that there's no way I would have come close to my allotment, let alone have gone over it enough to warrant the charges. I looked into it a bit and it turned out I was being surcharged for uploading a small webpage to my personal directory to monitor my servers. The FTP calls were being logged as dial-up calls that I was billed for.