…I’m speaking to a Mr Robot?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m back from the store. My roommates gather around as I reveal with a flourish: the four head VCR. It cost me close to $500 on special at Sears. Cheers and back slapping ensue for a solid minute. Quickly we hook it up to the TV and settle in for a marathon of movies.<\/p>\n

Yes. Can you tell me that figure again?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m waiting in line at the College. I see a girl run out of the registrar’s office in tears. I’m worried that that will be me in a few minutes. After supplies and rent and a decent week’s worth of food, I’ve got enough to play a fist full of video games in the common area.<\/p>\n

Certainly. After the three payments of $535, $410 and $437 made in the month of May… <\/em><\/p>\n

I’m staring at my first computer in the dark cave of my living room. I’ve made my first piece of digital art on the tiny 15″ screen: a combination of a picture of myself that I’ve applied a Peter Max type filter and some warped text over my head. I found it easy to do.<\/p>\n

…I guess you did your taxes in one go for three years, Mr Robot?<\/em><\/p>\n

My first web page I did as a joke (much like all my web interactions). It was a hommage to Jon Erik Hexum: All the images I could find combined with a sad midi file; uncontrollably embedded into the page; animated GIFs of torches bookended a 20 second poem I had written. My teacher laughed at the tackiness of it, saying I “grokked” the Web. But he didn’t understand why Jon Erik.<\/p>\n

Yes. I did. Which leaves me with…?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m standing in the student book shop, wondering if instead of paying the $10 for another pad of newsprint for life drawing class, I could flip all my drawings from the last month over and use the back, meanwhile I could eat cheap pork chops and still have enough to go to Katrinas and have at least two drinks with my friends (who all have paying jobs) this weekend.<\/p>\n

Well it looks like we’re showing a balance of $411.05. I guess you’ll be paying this off within 30 days? Just add $3 for the interest.<\/em><\/p>\n

And with that, the albatross that has been around my neck for the last 20 years flies away.<\/p>\n

I have paid off my student loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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