Wondering how it’s going with my health and general welfare? Here’s the important news in a nutshell:
I will not be given any money from the benefits agency and I will have to pay to go back to university.
I got these two pieces of news today, when I seem to be suffering from one of the worst bouts of fatigue in a long time. Funny thing about fatigue: it sort of sneaks up on you. You can think you’re fine, until you try and make sense of the wardrobe options in B&Q, and then you realise that you’re too tired to move properly and end up in a Cafe Nero in St Neots, licking chocolate tortina from off the wrapper because it’s half term and the manager is at home looking after the kids so some sixth-formers who work there forgot to put anything in the chiller.
Unless I suddenly start to be able to pull money out of my butt, it looks like I’ll be staying in Bedfordshire for a little while longer. Actually, pulling money out of my butt sounds like an updating of fairy gold (or, possibly, a term used in the porn industry). I think we can all guess what magic butt-money turns into at sunrise.
I’m lost now. I thought the Benefits Agony weren’t giving you money because you are still at University?
That’s correct! I’m not getting any money from the government because they see me as a student. The university doesn’t see me as a current student because I’m on an “interruption of studies”, and if I return I’d have to pay a new set of fees for tuition as I’m seen to have used up my allotted tuition amount pre-sickness.
It’s mostly like a catch 22 but with some extra bits. Like a catch 22.7.