Self Sells

Now that I wait tables, I always have at least $20 in ones in my wallet.

I feel like a stripper.

Sometimes I wonder if that would really be a whole lot more demeaning than waitressing. At least then I’d only be selling my body, instead of my entire self.

Meh. $65 on a Thursday night makes me not care too much.

Thoughts

I love college.

Taking 16 hours at school and working 5 shifts/week at work is exhausting.

I need more sleep.

Off to class now.

No Gender, No Name

I got a new car yesterday! It’s a dark green 1997 Saturn SC1, which is a cute little 2-door coupe. I love it! I’m only spending $108/month on it, which I can earn in pretty much one Saturday night or two weeknights at work.

Also my computer keeps making a weird popping sound and de-selecting (is that a word?) whatever window I’m in. It’s really annoying when I’m trying to type something and pop! My window isn’t selected anymore. I’m going to run a virus scan today to figure out why it’s doing that.

Damn Rat

If you ever see a rat cross the street in front of your car, you might as well turn around and go home because you’re going to have an unusual sort of day.

That’s what happened to me on the way to work this morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a jinx because a lot of weird shit happened today. First the computer at work wouldn’t let my manager switch me from training to server, and in the process of trying to fix it my tickets got all messed up. Then it wouldn’t let her give me a new number and when that finally worked, it wouldn’t recognize the number and we had to reboot the computers for the sixth or seventh time. All the computer rebooting, combined with two cooks who get overwhelmed way too quickly, mean that the kitchen got extremely backed up and food was taking up to thirty minutes to come out. And yet I still got about 17% tips overall, so that part was good.

Then on the way home from work, my car died as I was turning off 288 onto King’s Row. Luckily I was able to idle across the road and onto the side, and there wasn’t any traffic, but still. I just replaced that battery last weekend! I still don’t know what happened because I got my car to start back up after sitting on the side of the road for 15 minutes, and my battery is fine now. I think I may be getting a new car tomorrow though. I found a really good deal on a 2002 Oldsmobile Alero (a 2-door coupe, not a granny car, thanks), so my dad and I are going to go look at it first thing in the morning.

I registered for school last night. My schedule is…
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
8-8:50am Mass Communication & Society
9-9:50am US History to 1865
11-11:50am Stars & the Universe

Tuesday/Thursday
12:30-1:50pm Individuals in Society
3:30-4:20pm Health Psychology
…So not exactly the schedule I wanted, or even some of the classes I wanted, but overall I’m happy with it. I’m actually really looking forward to my astrology class, and my health class. Individuals in Society sounds pretty interesting too. I think I’m just ready for school to start in general.

Busy Bee

I’m starting to feel like I have a real life again. More has happened this week than pretty much all summer. It’s kind of nice, actually. I don’t mind being lazy, but sometimes I get depressed when all I do for weeks is sit around the house. I’ve got to quit being unemployed during the summer.

Speaking of that, I start waiting tables at PHouse tomorrow night. I’m kind of nervous, although I probably shouldn’t be because I know a lot of the people there still, and I think I’ll be a good waitress. I dunno. It’s just something about going back to my old job after more than a year…I guess I’m nervous to see what’s changed. I’ll find out tomorrow, anyway.

Since it’s 11 at night, and I’m not feeling very coherent, I’ll just break last week down by day.
Monday: Got up early and helped Kirby take his truck to the shop. I’m sure I did other stuff, but I can’t remember.
Tuesday: Went swimming with Chels, and Kirby came over after he got off work and we watched part one of season two of Weeds.
Wednesday: Met Kirby for lunch. Drove around with my dad and found a new stereo for my car, since my old one randomly stopped working. Also watched part two of season two of Weeds and Top Chef with Kirby and Chels.
Thursday: Helped Kirby take his truck to the shop again, took my car to the audio place to get my stereo put in, made an appointment for an eye exam, helped take my Dad’s car to get a new stereo, had my car battery die on me, got hired back at PHouse officially, and picked Kirby up from work, took him to get his truck, then came back to his house and hung out for a while before going to Wal-Mart and Target. That was an exhuasting day.
Friday: Got a new battery for my car and got contacts. Started house sitting for Kirby and his family while they’re on vacation. Had my radiator hose crack and nearly overheat my car.
Saturday (yesterday): Fixed my radiator hose, went out to eat with the fam, and kept house sitting.
Today: Was lazy. Went to Target, CVS, and Bueno. Other than that I didn’t do much. Still house sitting though, and my car’s water container thing started leaking, making my car start overheating, so it isn’t drivable.

I really like having contacts. I almost wish I had gotten them sooner, but they seemed so scary! I tried to get them once in 8th grade and couldn’t (for several reasons – allergies, and I was too scared to put them in myself), but they’re so much easier this time around, and more comfortable too. So yeah.

If you can’t tell, this has been a shitty week as far as my car is concerned. I spend $200 on a new stereo, and as soon as I do my car starts crapping out on me. Other than fixing the AC I haven’t really had to spend much on it in the year I’ve had it, and now all of a sudden so much shit is going wrong that I can barely drive it. Seriously. Three big issues in three days. It’s ridiculous. The battery was a four year battery that was SIX years old, so I understand it dying. And the other two are just from the Texas heat. But still, it’s frustrating to pour all this money into a car I don’t even like. Not to mention, I’m not getting any warning lights coming on when my car starts to overheat, so I went from having a reliable old car to an unreliable old car, and it sucks.

K I’m off to bed soon. Tonight’s my last night house sitting and I’m hoping to get a decent night’s sleep so I can be okay for work tomorrow. Ciao.