I'm upset and kind of nervous-- I'd appreciate any advice, or maybe just some reassuring.

So, I got a call late Wednesday night. The taxes my mother told me she was taking care of, the one I gave her W2s for a month ago? Were not done.

I'd never done taxes before on my own. Naturally, I kinda freaked. But I decided to e-file through H&RBlock, as I hear that's the simplest way to do it.

I filed, and all was well, right?

I got an email this morning saying that my taxes were rejected b/c someone else claimed me as a dependent, after I'd asked and she said it was okay to claim independent. Maybe my father claimed me, I don't know. They used to take turns and all that.

Am I screwed? My first filing was on time, does that apply? And should I just hand fill it in and mail it now, anyway? I'm hoping because I don't have a return nor a balanced owed that everything should be fine.

Edit: My mom claimed me. After, you know, she said I could claim independent earlier in the year. On the upper hand, she's going to fix everything. Since I filed on time, that's okay. I'm going to ask Mike to drop all my info off Sunday night, and she'll look it over and send it in Monday. And crisis should be averted.

The presentation went quite well despite the five hours' sleep and the one hour of prep. I managed to convince my class that forbidden love, the ocean, Jesus Christ, and death were all valid expressions of the unattainable masculine in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Go team me.

Staff meeting was long and boring. Also? One of my co-workers is annoying the hell out of me. Kim's the type of person who will openly tell you that you're stupid if you disagree with her. She talks over you if she doesn't agree with you (irritating to the extreme). In addition, she is always at least 20 minutes late to any function, so we have to pause and fill her in on anything that she missed, which usually takes about ten minutes because all of the important things come first.

So, there's this leadership honor society on campus, the Trumpeters. I briefly thought of applying, but decided that since I'm a mostly behind-the-scenes type person, maybe next year. Kim applied and was denied. Ina, another staff member, was on the board of 12 that makes the decisions. Ina tried to explain nicely that all 12 votes have to be unanimous, and out of the 40+ that applied, only about fifteen were accepted-- it's nothing personal, she probably just wasn't visible enough for most people to know her. Kim kept putting her on the spot, grilling her about who voted no, what higher-up can she talk to, like Ina's input didn't even matter. Then she pulled the race card. I felt like shaking her-- Kim, honey. You didn't get denied because you're black. You got denied because you trash talk like a mofo, skip out on your campus jobs routinely, have a nasty attitude, and threaten your residents with kitchen knives. Stop pulling the race card, because you're only giving rednecks ammo, okay? Grr.

Okay. My boys need to bring back the vacuum. I think I'm going to go for a walk.

But first...
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Ooh, my boys brought the vacuum back. Yay, I'm gonna have a clean room.