Labor

A few days ago, the universe exploded. At least that's how I described it to my father. While I was at work, I received 4 voicemails from Theresa:

Message 1: We found an apartment.
Message 2: Camron is looking at the apartment.
Message 3: We want the apartment.
Message 4: We need 2000 dollars from you, preferably today.

As exciting as the first three messages were, all excitement was demolished by the prospect of the fourth. I spent the rest of work feeling like I was going to vomit. So did my mother.

After work I went home and took a three hour nap to avoid dealing with the world.

Then, somehow, we managed to scrape together 1500, which is what had to happen right away. That money was officially wired this morning. Thank God.

To increase the chances of having enough money for my September rent in the bank when I leave Kansas in 17 days, I am now doing what I should have been doing all summer: supplementing my income with odd jobs. I am extremely lucky that various opportunities have been made for me over the last few days, opportunities that, I hope, will keep me extremely busy until the moment I leave. In addition to working regularly scheduled hours at the Market:

Job #1: Various feats of manual labor at Jane's house.
Duties include: scrubbing mold, scraping metal, painting walls, cleaning cabinets, vacuuming cobwebs, etc.
Job benefits include: food and beverage, Jeremy's iPod
Lessons learned: Mouthwash helps with mold stains. Metal primer doesn't come off your hands, even with a Brillo pad. Brillo pads will, however, take off skin and irritate seasonal finger bumps. I missed the TV on the Radio memo, but thank God I found out.

Job #2: Yard work/ MXTW organization for Jim.
Duties include: laying mulch and insecticide, readying MXTW info (reader lists, company lists, scripts, author blurbs, etc.) for MXTW.org, and filing
Job benefits include: caffeination, Megan Clark, learning about my history
Lessons learned: MegaClar is good at scrapbooking against her will. Jim will always accidentally call me Gwethalyn.

Job #3: Possible yard work for Jim's neighbors. All has yet to be determined.

I will make it through all of this. I don't have any other choice.