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I'm batting .500 so far. I got my car back already, even though it was supposed to be a full-day job. Not only did they remember to do both parts that had to be fixed (one was in maintenance, the other in body shop) but the warranty paid for everything! 204 dollars that I don't need to spend!

My interview is in 45 minutes!

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I'm batting a thousand--I got a job as cashier and working in the lot for 8.50 an hour!

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I'm looking through the sliding glass door of my back yard, watching a female racoon crawl out of a neighbour's roof and climb down their downspout and wandering around their back yard. She has carried at least five babies out of the hole in the roof, probably to another hole in another roof.

Went out with my mother to get some groceries and get a cancelled cheque for my automatic deposit with Home Depot. My mother usually does groceries on Saturday, but she'll be coming home from Windsor on Saturday, and who really wants to do groceries after a three-hour drive?

Since my car was in the shop this morning, my father had to drive me in. On the way, he asked me a weird question: he's going to a cancer benefit that he's contributing to (must be a business donation--we don't have any money) and wanted to know if I wanted to go.

O-o?

Maybe some background information is necessary. During my childhood, he spent most of his time working an hour away from here and commuting so I didn't see him much. He also spent little time involved in things I was doing, often only going along with it grudgingly or dropping my mother and me off at whatever event it was and picking us up later. He showed up late to my grade 8 graduation and didn't go to my grade 12 graduation dinner because of work (different job close to home now).

In the last few years he has gone to Vancouver, Seattle, Montreal, and Quebec City on business trips and has never invited me. He goes to all sorts of parties and events that we are never invited to (not that we really want to go). In the last week he has invited me on a business trip to San Francisco, and now to a cancer benefit thing, after never inviting me anywhere before. I can't go to SF because I'll be working and can't go to the benefit because I have to study for exams. My mother's theory is that all his business friends are starting to wonder why they never see us, and that he's running out of excuses for why we're not there.