hello folks, thought i'd give you an update on my life over the last 9 months.

i no longer have a girlfriend.

i now have a fiancee! she's really pretty too.

well that's all that's IMPORTANT in my life right now.

the end.

p.s. tamara wrote this

Just when you thought it would never happen....................I've got my internet back, and so I'm posting a xanga.

I'm sick today  so that's no fun, but oh well.

I went to this music educators convention called KCOMTEP and that was cool, fun, and educational.  Got to hang out with a lot of wild and crazy musicians.  The only bad part was the sickness and the parts where I was freezing my balls off thanks to John Cannon's fetish with the air conditioner.  I woke up freezing and thought, hey, I could warm up in the shower, WRONG, the water was somehow actually colder than my frozen self, oddly enough.  C'est la vie.

I still have no fish to replace the loss of those two poor souls Hong and Kong.  Maybe I'll win the lottery and be able to afford such luxuries as pets and stuff.  Most likely I'll pick the right numbers for the wrong lottery or something. 

Currently Reading Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul By John Eldredge see related

So yeah, I'm a slob.  I got home from Iowa on like Sunday and I think I'll finally unpack today.  I've been working, but that's no excuse, because I've played a lot of video games too.  C'est la vie. 

Speaking of work.  It sucked.  I officially made LESS than minimum wage yesterday.  I get paid 2.13 an hour and I made 12 bucks in tips in 4 hours (that's 3 bucks an hour).  Totals 5.13/hr.  That blows.  It bites the weenie.  There should be laws.............that's all I'm saying about that.  Income is waaaay too inconsistant for servers (2.13 an hour just doesn't really seem all that fair when the customers have the right to refuse to tip adequately or at all for whatever personal reason they choose).  There is no requirement to tip, just a recommended gratuity.  I think a person's legal pay should be something more than a recommendation.  Sure it's the polite thing to do, but I know lot's of impolite people. The company is allowed to legally assume that the customers that come to the store will tip enough to cover what is missing.  Of course it is also legal for customers to come into the store and refuse to tip (not polite, but legal).  It is true that good service deserves a good tip, but not everybody is willing or even cares to do so.  So, LEGALLY, they're allowed to set a new minimum wage for servers at 2.13 an hour, due to a societal recommendation.  Crap, I tell you! 

The main problem is that the company has it in its best interests to make the serving staff do ask much work as it can get away with.  The more things taken care of by the less-than-minimum-wage staff, the less the company has to dole out in the end.  The bad news there is that some non-serving duties get assigned to the serving crew and so we spend a lot of time doing side work that is usually more labor intensive, things we won't get tipped for, and we still get paid less than minimum wage.  That's where we get burned in the end.

Well gripity gripe gripe gripe.  Aren't I the sourpuss?  Okay, on a cooler note, I went swimming and I'm looking foward to the canoe trip this weekend.  Excellent.

What the crap!  As soon as I start lauding my fish for all his great fishy qualities, he goes and dies on me!   There's something very fishy about all this, and I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.  I think this somehow must be Tamara's fault.  Fish jealousy.  (Probability that I killed my own fish by cleaning the tank:  85%)

The good news is that I can't work today BECAUSE THE MEDICAL PEOPLE SUCK!  Wait that's not good news.  I need money.  I can't go into work until I get my medical release-to-work form.  The hospital said to go to the student health center, and they won't see me any sooner than tommorow, not even to write down a simple YOU'RE OK slip. 

Blah, worst part is that my boss confused the hell out of me.  She said, "You can probably get a slip that okays you for today when you go in to see them tommorow"  and I asked her "Does that mean I'm okay to work today then?" She replies (in a don't be stupid voice) "No, I need to have that form before you can work".  Oh, now I understand .  WHAT'S THE POINT OF GETTING CLEARED FOR WORK TODAY WITH A SLIP I GET TOMMOROW IF I CAN'T WORK TODAY BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE THE SLIP!?   There's something fishy going on here.  (Probability that I will actually say anything to her about it:  3%)

So how's your day?