But at least I'm keeping busy! :)
The dog job is kind of fun. The dogs are a blast to play with. It's funny, but supervising dogs is amusing like supervising a direct supervision quad. Except the dogs are nicer. :)
Anyway, I have to split. If you're interested, you might be able to see me at work. If you go to dogdaycare.com/dulles you can look at the webcams. Another way it's like jail.
It seems (thanks, Schlick) that I have been missing out on some fun at the jail. I hate to say it, but I kind of miss the place. For all of the BS we had to deal with, we got paid a lot of money to do relatively little. Good times...
So it's come time to go buy a car for Joelle. Her job starts on August 4th, and she has to drive to Roanoake on the 29th for the Bar Exam. We're looking at getting something small and fuel efficient. Joelle says that we have to offset the poor mileage of my Xterra. Go figure. :)
I'm really excited about Joelle's new job. They are already talking about sending her to two conferences. One in Portland and one in *somewhere else*. Plus it will be nice to have regular income again. ;)
Anyway, if any of you are fans of The Office, I'm going to crank the tunes and prepare for my interview Dwight Schrute style.
Nope, instead I've got an interview for another part-time job. Slingin' mini turkey burgers isn't really brining in as much cash as we need, so I'm hopefully picking up a second job in the mornings.
The job is... *drumroll*... At a doggy daycare!
I know, it's kind of a ridiculous job, but it pays $9 an hour. Plus, I get to play with dogs! I miss having a dog and we can't have one until we buy a house, so...
Now I think that people who do this type of thing for their pets are spoiling the animals. However, unlike children, dogs don't know when they are being spoiled. So at least they won't be bratty. :)
Anyways, the job would be from 6:15am until 2:15pm a few times a week. That would give me about two hours before I would have to be at Ruby Tuesday, so that's not bad at all. The interview is on Thursday, so wish me luck!
What I will say, though, is that i'm getting really sick of crappy tippers. It would be one thing if I gave bad service. I don't. In fact, guests will tell me how good my service was, and then leave a crappy tip. If you can't afford a meal and a tip, go to freakin' McDonald's!
As anyone who has waited tables will tell you, we work for tips. The $2.13 an hour I make doesn't even cover my crappy health insurance. The only way to make money is to get good tips. Now I'm not saying to tip well if you're unhappy with the service, but don't compliment your server and then leave a crappy tip. It's insulting, and I can't use your compliments to pay my rent! :p
The funny quote of the day came when Joelle was looking at the to-scale display of the planets at the A&S Museum. She looked for a moment and said, ''I didn't realize Uranus was so big!''
She immediately realized what she had said, which made it funnier. :)
Other than that the day was pretty uneventful. I'm currently on the Metro and we're heading to Adam's because he is grilling. He told me to bring a pineapple... I'm intrigued.
What purgatory am I waiting in, you ask? The DMV!!! Oh horror of horrors. But I must register my vehicle and get a VA license. I put it off as long as I could out of some misguided hope that we would have a house by now.
I am getting custom plates, though. I'll show them to you when I get them.
So, on a completely separate note (but i've got nothing but time here,) my soon to be landlord is a pompous blowhard of a racist. This guy just loves the sound of his own voice. Luckily we won't have much interaction with him.
If any of you are fans of The Riches, he reminds me of Hugh- Eddie Izzard's boss. In fact, after I thought of that, all I could think of was him bellowing ''Doug! Doug!'' everytime he talks.
Oh well, that's as much tiny keyboard time as I'm willing to put into this.
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