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2008-11-22 - 10:51 p.m.

Want Ketchup with that?

I'm so excited because I went to a anti-Proposition 8 rally last Saturday and stood in the cold, wind and rain in support of all my gay friends who want the same rights to marry like everyone else.

I never pictured myself as someone to go to a protest, but I did! (Go me!) That was a life first.

It was incredible. I brought a few hand-made posters, gave out the extras, and hooted and hollered on the street with a great crowd in the dismal weather and felt part of something BIG. We made the local news and the nation-wide impact was heard around the world.

In other news, my job as a legal secretary continues to trod along. My boss surprised me by offering me a permanent gig, which I accepted. I'd been trying to find something elsewhere that paid more, but after signing up with 2 more temp agencies, nothing had transpired. The total fuck of the offer was that my boss didn't plan to pay me more than I was making with the agency.

Not a dime more.

Even though the agency had been getting SEVEN dollars an hour over what I made! After his spiel, I stopped him and said I was having financial issues and that I needed to be paid more. He pulled back and asked how much. I said "$12" (a dollar more than the agency paid) and he winced. WINCED, people.

Then he counter-offered $11.50 and as I was saying "That will help..." he said "Fine, I'll pay you $12, but you have to stay with me for awhile!"

Like he was giving me some great deal. Geez. On one hand it sucks because I made that kinda money YEARS ago, but on the other hand, I had nothing else lined up and WHEE.

And he'll pay me for a few holidays and a week vacation next year. Other benefits? Hell NO.

But now that I'm officially on his payroll, I snagged the deal to clean his office twice a month for $100 extra bucks a month. Sadly, I make more money an hour as a janitor than being a legal secretary.

I am trying to be positive about all of it. Digging myself out of a hole. In a few years, I'll probably be in a whole different field, making shitloads of money.

Or serving you french fries at the drive-thru.