Okay. Life without internet officially sucks.


But things are decent. I've got a job now and things are slowly crawling on towards something approaching normal, and that's good.

Unfortunately, the IRS and my bank are a bunch of bastards. The short story is, certain entities with whom I am financially involved reported that I made $30,000 in 2006 and then failed to report that amount on my income taxes-- except I've never made 30 grand in my life, let alone in one year. So now I'm being threatened with penalties and back taxes totalling around $4,400 dollars, which I have to pay within 90 days of receiving the notice which so kindly informed me of my involuntary tax evasion-- except due to mail delays I didn't actually get that notice until it was already 60 days past due.

So now, thanks to the Internal Revenue Service and the delightful people at my bank, I have to re-file my 2006 income taxes, with proof, and I need to do it and have it sent to the IRS within the next two weeks. I tried calling the various numbers provided in order to explain the situation, but I got a series of automated menus, none of which gave me the option to talk to a real person. One of them said it would have an option to talk to a Tax Advocate, or something to that effect, but didn't actually list that option in the following menu.

Here's hoping that my next journal entry won't be made from prison.