i got home from work a little while ago. i was supposed to get off at 7 tonight, but one of the closers begged me to do him a favor and close for him tonight, for no other reason than he just desperately did not want to close. i declined several times, because hey, i wanted a night off to relax and hang out and have a life before school starts. but he kept begging and i finally said, "ok David, I will close for you if you pay me $50." i totally thought he say "you're nuts" and stop whining. instead, he said, "really?" he tried to talk me down to $30, but i stuck with fifty and he finally agreed. so i worked three and a half extra hours and basically got paid triple time for it. how cool is that?

also, i realized today (sat.) that i have not showered since tuesday morning. it's true that i only shower about 3 times a week, but five days is a long time for me. helen and i have this great philosophy that states that we don't need to shower until we can smell each other. see what happened is that i was due for a shower on thursday, but i thought to myself, "tomorrow i'll be painting. i should wait until that's done with." then yesterday we got done painting and i thought to myself, "tomorrow morning i'm going to work out. i should wait until after i sweat." THEN i'm working out and i realize that i have to be at work in fifteen minutes, so i think to myself, "i'm just going to get all dirty anyway, so i'll shower tonight." then i realize tonight that i have to get up at 6:30 in the morning to go back into work, where i'm just going to get covered in coffee grounds and mocha and sugary syrup again, so right now i'm thinking, "i'll just wait until tomorrow after work because i want to get some sleep and i don't want to get up early and what's the use i'm just going to smell like coffee when i get home." but you know what's going to happen? tomorrow i'm going to realize that on monday i have to work at 7:30 again for 8 hours so showering at all is really quite futile. it's a vicious cycle. and to tell you the truth, i really don't smell... well, i smell like coffee, but nothing extremely unpleasant. my hair is kinda greasy, but i can always pull it back so what does it matter? so who knows when i will be freshly showered again. i'll let you know.