i am So confident.  there's this lady who owns a restaurant in a nearby town.  my mom has been eating her food since the eighties, and mom and i have been eating at her place occasionally for about ten years.  she moved from a side street to MainStreet, and now she's being discovered by people.  so her business has tripled while her seats have only doubled, and she needs a whole lot of help.  so my mom told me.  so i engineered lunch last tuesday at said bistro, and gave the owner my resume and a short letter.  after she had basically hired me on the spot, my mom and her friend proceeded to talk me up to a humiliating extent.  god.  i felt like a teenager, so embarassed by my mother.  love her to bits tho.

my first day was today.  the owner thought i was a quick worker and she was also glad to see i was tidy.  these things i know because she told me so.  the other thing is that i didn't ask what the wage was until after i'd worked today.  she told me, "well, i'll pay YOU..."  (price of my soul left blank because it's embarrassing to you city folks what we get paid here in the land of low-cost living.)  so i think she hadn't made her mind up what to pay me yet, and i do think she liked me an awful lot.  i feel good about this.

god, and do i need the extra money for next fall.  especially since so much of mine seems to be going to beer and...umm...other stuff.  but i'm a lot more cautious than i was a year ago, don't worry!

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the music i got with my borders gift card from last christmas:  two smiths greatest hits discs to replace the one i've loved and carried everywhere to its sad demise; TMBG "the spine" and the newest EP; the polyphonic spree's "together we're heavy."