Today was set up. It rained for most of the day and I was pretty damn miserable because of this. Not to mention mom had been down because she felt guilty for Laura getting fired. I felt isolated because it seemed like no one from Laura's crew was coming over and talking to me. In fact only 2 people from that crew made an effort to talk to me, any other interaction between us was because I went out of my way to say "hi" etc. Those two people were Jeff, and he came over to apologize because he found out that the dime rolls he'd traded me last week were fake (i.e. pennies instead of dimes) he apologized like 8 times and I told him to knock it off its done, but he should start checking rolls in the future. He laughed. The other person who came over was Timmy and that was to let me and mom know he some how managed to light his head on fire yesterday and managed not to get hurt in the process. He thinks he might have fallen asleep with a cigarette. Idiot :-p! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Anyway so I've been miserable all day b/c I'm missing Laura and my other friends. I'm getting weepy because I realized everyone is getting ready to go back to school and all when sad turns to anger...and when I say anger I mean someone get a tranq because I was ready to kill. I found out from mom (who's been feeling guilty ever since Laura got fired)that when Laura and Steve (her boss and long time friend of our family) had their confrontation, Laura told Steve that my mom approached her to leave Steve and work for her, and offered her $750.00 guaranteed for the week of west end with possibility of more if the week was good. I was floored. Mom was pissed because Laura made us both feel so bad about her getting fired and here she is trying to make it look like mom was the one to blame for Laura looking into new work. (In case you haven't guessed. Mom never did any of the things Laura said she did. The only time I've ever heard of someone getting 750$ for one week was if they worked a game. Yes, working in a trailer you get paid on the hr and if you work the entire week you can get a pretty penny but you'd have to be giving the boss a blow job once a day to get that kind of money. For real. *deep calming breath* I'm going to go out on a limb and give her the benefit of the doubt and make an assumption that maybe she panicked and didn't realize what she was saying. Or tried to cover her ass in order to keep her job. Shit happens. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Moving along. HURRAYS! Are in order! My beloved cousin, my favorite cousin over the age of 20, my sexual mentor and supplier of pornography >Millie in case you haven't guessed yet< bought a house! Its official! She signed all the papers and dotted all the little "i"'s. And as of September 30th she will be moving in ;-D. Its in Leighton (:-p). I haven't seen much of it except in a picture but I've heard its pretty nice. There's even an attic that will make a "nice bedroom for my annoying younger cousin once I get dry wall put up in it."- Millie. But, that’s a long ways in coming. Until then I shall remain at home, working and finishing my LCCC education. I've been thinking a lot about what I'm going to do post graduation and I'm not getting too many ideas. A friend suggested I look into library science and become a school librarian for a HS. So that I could work winters with a good job I'd like and still have summers to go on the carnival if I chose to, or travel if I chose not too. Its a good idea really, and I'm thinking I'm gonna talk to an advisor about it...but I'm also thinking I might want to take a year off from school just to get settled sorta. Get a non carnival job for a summer and take over part of Millie's house (if she'll let me) so I get a feel for what its' like to be away from home and have responsibilities. I think being able to do that will help me cement my head more than anything. ~*~ In related news- since the carnival season appears to be getting shorter and my winter job doesn’t start till the end of December, I’ve been thinking of getting a job to tide me over. My first choice would be to get a job on campus, maybe working in the library or something like that. Failing to get a job on campus I just found out that Scotties (local sewing factory) is hiring and willing to train new comers. ~*~ In final news- plans for Monday continue slowly. An e-mail was sent this evening to him asking for directions and if Monday would be a good time to get together. Updates will be made as the information becomes available ;-). Life is Crazy.