Thoughts while watching the Today show

During the news update at the beginning of the hour on the Today Show just now, the piece on flip-flops being unsafe for driving was longer than any of the other news stories. Granted, they did then do a longer piece on the Russian submarine, interviewing a woman who had written a book about US submarine espionage. There was no content to the interview, though. She basically talked about how the sailors must be scared and the fact that they are rapidly running out of oxygen. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Entirely unrelated, I meant to complain about this last time I posted: it was so much easier in Montréal to meet people again or to say goodbye. None of this awkward, 'Do I shake his/her hand? Do I hug him/her? Do I just wave?' This of course doesn't apply to straight men, because that's easy. You just shake his hand. Everyone else, though, it's this awkward uncertain dance-around. Like when I went to say goodbye to a friend of a friend who I'd seen for the second or third time over the weekend. My instinct is still to lean in for a hug and a kiss-kiss. Of course, it usually only ends up as one kiss or I just confuse people when I go back in for the other cheek. Except that his head kept going and I end up sort of kissing his ear since he was just going in for a full hug.

This is, of course, just one of those stupid little things that I like to complain about.

Work at the café has been pretty good so far. Yesterday was okay until about 11 when I just wanted to be back in bed. The half-hour of prep flew by and then I blinked and it was almost 9. The morning rush was really not that bad. A friend of mine came in at one point to get coffee and we quickly chatted as I rang her in and got her coffee but when I talked to her later in the day, I confessed that I had no sense of when she'd come in. Now I just have to get her to stop drinking Flogers at home.

On the whole, I think that once I get used to being up and working earlier in the day again, it'll be a lot better. Right now, though, my body is used to getting to work at 4.30 in the afternoon and working until 11 or 12. It was in shock as much as I was getting up and getting to work so early yesterday.

Today, I have to do laundry and then head out to get some free wireless to post this. After that, I'm going suit shopping! I found out that there are actually some decent vintage shops in town, so I'm hoping to snag something stylish and not too expensive. I'm also on call for work. There's some big cultural festival in town this weekend and they don't know how busy it's going to get, so in case it does get really busy--which it probably will--I'll have to go in for a bit. I'll get to leave as soon as it quiets down, which will be good. But if I do work today, I'll have ended up working 15 days in a row by the next time I get a day off, which is a week from today, for my dad's wedding. Then, in fact, I have three days off before I work 10 days in a row. Wee!

Needless to say, I need the money anyway. And this whole getting tips thing is great. They divide up the tips evenly at the end of the day based on how many hours you worked so that everyone gets the same tips per hour. Thursday, I made an extra $3.40 an hour. I can deal with that.