The woman who owed me a few hundred dollars has almost paid me off. I think she owes me about $150 more. But now I’ve got someone else who doesn’t want to pay me.

This one is the monstrous project that I have been dying to get over and done with for a couple of months. I turned in my first two batches of work, and got paid for them, albeit not as quickly as promised. But after I turned in my third batch, I heard nothing. I emailed her a couple of times, and still nothing. Wonderful.

I know I could have gotten them done a little more quickly, but as low as the pay was I couldn’t justify putting off my decent-paying work to get it done. And she could at least pay me for those and tell me not to bother with the rest. That would be perfectly fine with me.

I had one more batch to go, and I have done nothing but preliminary work on it. And I won’t be working on it until I see some cash. The thing is, I have a sinking feeling that I won’t see any. Not that I’m not going to pursue it, but pursuing it doesn’t always work.