mood: lost music: 'sometimes' by my bloody valentine

well i finally landed a job. i am now an employee of the inglewood-based catering company called Kikka Sushi. i don't think it's anything worth bragging about though; my mom works there and the boss's son goes to my school. either way i can't say that i love it either. my first day consisted of a solid 4 hour block of putting labels on plastic containers. talk about a end job. how is someone in my position supposed to get a promotion? the only way i can think of is if someone who buys the product calls the customer service number and says, 'omigod. this sushi is so fabulously marked! i must have the name of your label boy!'

it wasn't horrendously daunting or anything. i mean there are plenty of other things i would rather be doing to earn money, but seriously, don't they have some sort of machine than can do the things i was doing 10x's as fast and for a fraction of my slightly above minimum wage salary? that thought kept running through my head and it made me feel like a machine. like i shouldn't have shown any emotion doing what i did. so i didn't. i think i creeped out a few of my mom's friends and charmed a few more somehow.

anyways, i figure i'll be working about 4 hours after school monday thru thursday from 4 to 8. maybe after i get into stride i can add sunday; it's not like i'm doing anything worthwhile on sundays anyway. so i'm looking at a 16 and eventually a 20-hour workweek, which is light, at slightly above minimum wage. not a bad gig for a first job right? hey, it might not seem like much to you, but $100 a week is $80 more than i make each week driving a carpool, and the last time i checked, a %500 percent increase is not something to complain too much about.

oh, and this past sunday we found a new home for bubbles the bunny, as anna called him. andres and i put him in a cardboard box marked 'free bunny' and spent a few minutes standing next to the entrance to petco. no one can resist a free white fluffball of affection. within 10 minutes, we attracted the attention of several petco patrons and even a few of the employees. wherever you are, bubbles, i hope you're safe and happy.

today at school, our counselors held meetings that focused on help with college applications. now i'm really starting to feel the pressure of the college hunt. i feel extra bad that there are people at my school that seem 10 steps ahead of me; i haven't even locked in the colleges that i want to apply to yet. ack.

---Goei---