Cheerfully impoverished

I gots me a job today. Money. Yay, money! In addition to collecting essays from frantic undergraduates for the English department and free-lance copy editing (which are lucrative but sporadic), I'm now working as a professional note-taker for disabled students. And i'm making 11.45 an hour! It slays me; that's more than I made when i worked full time as a manger for a multi-state landscaping company where i supervised a team of 4 men. Go figure. At the moment it's only 2 hours a week, but it's steady, and they said i would get more work after christmas. Bear in mind that's almost 24 pounds, or $41.22 a week, for 2 hours' work! HA! And it doesn't involve a shovel! My life is charmed. (Now if only i could get laid...)