"Our incomes are like our shoes;...
later i will completely update that meme (probably when the 10 days are completely up)
i finally put my car in the shop friday morning at like 8am to get the oil leak and smoke checked out. and since i had a headache i couldn't shake, i spent $50 on a taxi home. lo and behold, not only am i right about the leak and something causing the engine to smoke, despite my rampant paranoia and car-idiocy, they are also related. basically, a seal is broken and leaking massive amounts of oil onto my engine, and has saturated/started to damage some of the rubber parts of it (such as the timing belt). i got an oil change at the first big snow about a month ago, and since then it leaked 4 quarts of oil. the estimated cost of repair?
$750
and it won't be done until Monday afternoon at the soonest.
i can just BARELY swing that, and i really hope that nothing else gets added on, cuz with rent for next month and direct loans payment i'll have just about $100 left in my checking account. and i only have 2 cans of kale, a can of spinach, a can of asparagus, and about a 1/3 of a box of instant mashed potato flakes left (but no butter with which to make the potatoes) for food. needless to say, i am quite hungry.
and one person at BN took off their saturday availability and one person is leaving, so the scheduling manager is telling me that i have to figure out what saturdays i won't be watching my nephew, to put me on. like i ever know, or she herself doesn't always have fridays off. and also what fridays, but i think i'm going to have to tell Merritt that friday nights i can work (since my availability at BN is 7am-3pm and i don't know why it's never used, not like they ever care about making us clo-pen anyway) since i really do need something extra coming in and i know i won't get it at BN.
and frankly, i hate the work environment at both places. i can't be there everyday or i am going to flip out on someone. if i'm lucky, it'll be whichever jackass is leaving shit on the bookfloor.
and i wish i was just referring to books, but i am not. seriously, retail makes me feel like all human beings should be wiped from existence.
i just really hate my life.
also, Alex Flinn's book Cloaked is good.