After applying to 74 jobs at G's school, 29 at the school I was temping at, and exactly 100 jobs on craigslist, I FINALLY have a job! I start tomorrow. I got an admin assistant position at the grad school at G's school. I have health insurance (soon)! Paid time off! Paid sick days! School holidays off (spring break, winter break, etc)! And it's all within a 5 minute walk from the apartment. Finally. A huge weight has lifted off my shoulders.

Last Friday my mom texted me and said she was coming to visit. I gave her the address of a friend of mine who just moved to DC to shut her up when I first came here, and lately she's been calling G constantly, as well as a few friends of mine. Where'd she get their numbers? She went through my phone a year ago. But she's been bothering everyone and finally she said she was coming to visit so I basically had to bully her out of it. She responded with one last text message, a phrase in Arabic that basically said that I'd see her next at her funeral. Not nice but whatever. On the Wednesday before that, I dropped $94 on an edible arrangements basket. I thought it would be a nice gesture. I specifically scheduled it to be delivered on Saturday so that they'd be home to get it. It was successfully delivered and they didnt' acknowledge it at all. Oh well I guess.

We worked a gun show in Waco this past weekend. T-shirt of the show: "Bush: Love him or hate him, he killed a ton of Arabs." Thanks, jackass. A dealer at the show was talking to G's mom about how he left his wallet in the bathroom, and opened his story with: "I was going into the bathroom to take an Obama..." Classy, classy people.

First day tomorrow!