Day 2 and 3
Day two started out on a bad note. When I woke up I realized that I had forgotten to pay my car payment for the month. I usually schedule the payment at the beginning of the month so that I don’t forget only somehow I had forgotten. I noticed that I had more money in my bank account than I had thought, but I just figured it was because I had been trying to cut back and that was paying off. I was wrong. I immediately got on line to pay the payment and included next month’s payment as well. I started to do some calculations and realized that I was worse off than I had thought. I was concerned about my upcoming paycheck because we get paid through the school district and technically had only worked one day in the pay period. I wasn’t sure if summer school would be included in the paycheck or if they would even remember to pay me (sometimes this happens). After investigating the matter further (ie asking some other clueless people) I found out that I might not be getting paid for summer school until August!
Betty and I both tend to obsess about these things and the only thing that calms us is to look on craigslist for gigs and etcetera jobs. It just makes us both feel like we are doing something about our situation. We both take surveys to participate in paid studies and often reply to childcare ads as we are both in the business. In my desperation I replied to yet another ad for a paid study. While I have done this many times throughout the years, this time I received a response. They asked me to fill out an additional survey and then called me within a few hours to tell me I had a place in the study and an appointment for the next day.
Day three was the day I was going in for the study. They requested that I not wear eye makeup or any hair product, so I refrained from this in the morning when getting ready. After work Betty and I ate leftovers from the night before (tacos – from taco Tuesday Betty and Corin style), and I left for my appointment. I was a little nervous when I arrived as I didn’t know what to expect. Betty had been there a few weeks before, and she told me what would happen, but I was still a little scared and a little freaked out. They had me sign a consent form and then wait in the lobby. There were a few people waiting with me who tried to make small talk. One of the guys was like, “are you here for the focus group?” (the same question he had just asked the other woman in the waiting room). I replied that I was here for something else but nodded politely. He seemed a little nervous too. After a few moments a woman came to the waiting room door and called me in – it was very doctor’s office like. I went inside where she explained that she was going to put a cap on my head, and then some leave-in conditioner under the cap. She also placed sensors on my forehead and nose. Once I was all hooked up she took me to a room where she asked me to perform a number of exercises. For the first ten minutes I was a little tense and wondered what they could see in my brain – or if they could tell if I was nervous which made me a little more nervous. After about 20 minutes I was done. I collected my check and practically skipped out of there. It was super awesome that I had earned as much money as I do in one day of summer school chasing after kids for four hours in just 20 minutes sitting in an air conditioned room staring at a screen.
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