Welcome to my sad little world.

The world of a broke college student.

I too have roughly the same job as far as money and paychecks, and believe me, I also hate when I'm expecting a fat check and I get a fraction of what I'm expecting.

The good thing is, for me at least, is that I seem to get a really large tax-return, so that sort of makes up for it, if you wanna look at it like that, lol.

Are you starting out college, too, yoda? My freshmen year alone I probably spent close to a G on books and shit, so it only gets worse. I try and get the ones I absolutely HAVE to get, and just go without the others. And my school also offers a re-sale program for used books, so after they're done collecting dust on my shelf, I can get a 1/4 of what I paid for them, but hey, lol, it's at least something.

Then I usually go and buy weed with that money, so I feel a little better about wasting my money on over-priced books. ~