Bons mots

  • "We live as though the world were what it should be, to show it what it can be."
    ~ Angel, "Deep Down," Season 4

  • It is difficult
    to get the news from poems
    yet men die miserably every day
    for lack
    of what is found there.
    ~ William Carlos Williams, from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”

School to-do list

  • Junior classes
    blue: 14 one-page homeworks

    green: 13 short quizzes

    purple: 15 one-page homeworks

    plan in-class essay prompt and final exam

    prep independent study I'm doing (because I'm foolish)

  • Freshman classes
    yellow: 11 short quizzes & one-page homeworks

    orange:14 short quizzes & one-page homeworks

    plan paper assignment & final exam

  • Other school stuff to do
    Write three more college letters of rec for last year's students
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ppb

I avoid taxes until the very last minute tax party.

hypatia cade

I'm sorry to have to ask... but why do you need last years taxes in order to do this years?

PS ppb - the trick to doing taxes is to do them early. If you owe money, mail them apr 15. If the govt owes you money mail them right away. This year I have mailed my fed. forms but I'm sitting on my state ones (!)

What Now?

Hypatia, I'm the one doing D's and my taxes this year, but for the last five years my mom has done them for us. She's actually a licensed tax preparer, so that's not quite as infantilizing as it sounds. It was still a little humiliating, although we were also very grateful (ah, families!). This year, our moving much further away provided a good excuse for us to break that recent tradition and for me to take over our taxes again. And it's really helping to use last year's taxes as a guide for this year's. At least, it's working that way for mine; I still haven't found D's! I'm also finding myself calling my mom with questions about the process, but that's a fine thing; it was having her actually do them that was getting problematic.

hypatia cade

Having a family member do taxes doesn't sound infantilizing to me... but maybe that's because my granddad is a CPA and periodically has done mine or my parents taxes when its been a complicated year.

The way you wrote about it, I thought you meant that you had to copy numbers over from them and I was trying to figure out what tax break(s) I might have been missing along the way. Missing something that would benefit me IS my one fear of doing my own taxes.

timna

does your mom have them online or were they filed as paper documents?

Scrivener

Turned up yet?

Sfrajett

At least you THOUGHT about your taxes. Which is more than I've done. Hope you get some dollars back!

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Who is this What Now?

  • I'm an English teacher at a wonderful high school (the justly famous Fabulous Girls' School, or FGS).

    I am partner to D. We live in a new-to-us house in Adventure City, where we manage to have relatively few adventures. Two cats -- the Muse and the Contemplative -- live with us and keep life at home plenty adventurous.

    I'm something of a lapsed Episcopalian trying to find her path.

    Email me at whatnowblogger at yahoo dot com.

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