hey, today was better than yesterday

i was offered a promotion at work today! they want to make me a full time sales associate. evidently one of the girls that works there now isn't doing that well, and they think i'm more personable than she is and will make a better salesgirl. my boss told me he thinks i'm great with customers, but i told him that i just have chubby cheeks and people like that.

i know, i know, i'll be a salesperson, but i will also get to work five days a week and i'll get a commission. i'm sort of anti-commission most of the time, but i'm usually on the other end of the commission. maybe if i'm on the end that actually gets the money i won't hate it so much. i don't think i'll become a smarmy, freaky sales associate. if i do, i trust that you'll tell me.

i wouldn't normally be this excited about a sales job, but it's nice to know that they think i can do more than just greet customers and hand them over to the sales staff. it's a teensy vote of confidence, but it's one that i'm happy to take. plus, i'll never have to work early in the morning and i'll get to hang out with the kids i'm already beginning to like.

being a 28 year old cell phone store greeter was definitely a blow to my self-image. i felt weird doing it the whole time, and while this isn't like a huge step up, it's better. if anything, the job itself will be more interesting and fun. and i'll still get to draw the copy kraken. or rather, the cellular kraken. (the kraken needs a new name, i haven't yet decided what it is.)

p.s. one of the things that makes checking out books from the library cool is sometimes people leave their old check out slps in there. then you can see who else read your book and what else they picked up. it's interesting, and it makes me wonder if i thought the same thing about the same book that someone else might have.