duh! duh duh dun dun dun DUUUUUUUHN!

that was the triumphant fanfare that accompanies the excellent news that i am again gainfully employed! which is to say, starting tomorrow, i have 12 shifts that will carry me through to the 8th.
and these are not just crummy pity shifts. these are some seriously long days, some of them which run overnight (Yay! Time And A Half!)!

i also set a display of my buttons up at the cafe and a bunch have sold! and yesterday while i was in there, someone came up to me wearing 3 (!!!) and asked if i would do a custom order of 50 or 100 (he wasnt clear, i'm waiting for email.. ) and there you have it. i have 3 potentially paying button gigs. and 2 weeks of very hard work.

and taylor is dropping by on the 31st! from japan! i will be exhausted by then!

i need to buy a couple tools. well, three, if you include a pair of gloves. Union gigs. i'm a little scared but i know i know how to do this work. it will be fine. i should secure some black polos that don't have a rhino on them. hurr.

Umm. that is all. actually, its not. i also said yes to, but havent heard a confirmation regarding, my first couch surfer. he's a well-referenced musician from maine. Everyone who has taken him in has been blown away by his dazzling conversation and musicianship. i get the feeling this one will be fruitless. but you never know.
did you know there are 6,000 or so people in Amsterdam who have advertised couches for people to sleep on?? when you expand the listing to all of Holland, there is simply no reason i can think of to not travel. thats just one (particularly friendly) country. share and be shared with. i'm stoked.