• Back in June, I lost my credit card, so I was issued another one with, naturally, a different number. I told the relevant parties, except my ISP: I forgot. So they've been trying to bill me since then, and me, thinking that if there ever were a problem, they'd let me know as they've always done. I figured that everything was fine with them, and I didn't check the details of my credit card statement (plus I absolutely hate looking at it). Seems as though it all came to a head on Friday, though. The order was made to cut me off. But all of this seems a little strange. I remember a couple of years ago when I was about two weeks late with a payment. They suspended the service. Two weeks. But this time it was six months without a word. Now, they say that they called and left messages, but I never got such a message from them. They say that they sent emails, but I keep all my emails from companies with which I do business, and I never received anything from them. I always check my junk email filter thoroughly as well. Nothing. So I had to pay $400 this morning to save my Internet connection. Hello, world.
• Université de Montréal. I swear to God that within the French system there are two kinds of people: québécois and foreigners. I was born in the province next door, but it's like I might as well have been born in Burundi. When I made the statement under oath a few months ago, I declared that I was a resident of Quebec. Now they want me to prove that I am not a foreigner. This would not be a problem at McGill or Concordia, I'm sure. Anyway, I lost my birth certicate years ago, so I have to reapply. I'll get it in six to eight weeks if I am lucky, and then this bullshit will be over hopefully.
• Revenu Québec insists that I owe them a bunch of money. They showed me that I wasn't actually paying them money off my paycheck in 1998 (my company was sketchier than I thought), although I figured that my company was paying taxes. I didn't do my taxes that year, and never really took them seriously until 1999/2000. This means that I will be paying them in installments for a while. Look at me, I'm jobless!

I will not be crushed in spirit. If it's one thing I cannot afford, it's that. I'm not buying.