Taxationed!!!

As lazy Sundays go, yesterday was productive. I've got some drafts ready for the term projects, some articles skimmed for the next World History seminar, and a freshly shorn scalp. More importantly, Becky and I got taxed. Or, did our taxes, as the case may be.

For some reason, every year I think that doing taxes is going to be kind of fun. We use software and we join forces (she reads numbers off of forms, I type) to get it all done. Every year, however, it pretty much sucks. We've owed the state of Oregon at least 40 or 50 bucks (usually closer to 200) every year since we got married, and this one was no exception. I think the central comedy of yesterday's taxation was when we discovered how much money we made (both of us put together) last year; I shouldn't say how much it was on the internet, but let's just say it was closer to 10,000 than to 20,000.

Anyway, now that we're shelling out sales tax along with our fellow Californians, we have high hopes that we won't owe the state when this time rolls around again next year.*

*Oregon, you see, has no sales tax. It makes up for this by having really high everything-else taxes, hence two graduate students owing money at the end of the year.