Truly, I have an overdeveloped martyr complex and an overinflated sense of self-importance.

However, they’re both buttressed by situations like last night’s SGA meeting, where, while bored by the head of the UAH College Democrats talking about decrying legislation to increase the maximum interest rates of Federally-subsidized loans and caps placed on the amount of individual financial aid as “a bipartisan issue” but then saying that “these cuts shouldn’t come in response to a desire to give wealthy fat-cats a tax cut”—come on, man; be above it or not, but don’t be a hack and say you’re not—when I noticed, suddenly, that the SGA Assembly had never seen a budget for FY06.

See, when your birthday is 1 October, you’re keenly aware of things like fiscal years, especially when it comes to government.

So, I mentioned it, and … the reaction was a bit brusque. That set off my hackles, and in thinking about it all on the way home, I was awful self-congratulatory. “Who else but you would have noticed?!” :sigh: