a living: Jul. 21, 2004 (11:13 am)

the smithsonian pays me 8.62 per hour mostly to stand. sometimes i sell jewelry or books or postcards and sometimes i take pictures of little kids and superimpose them on pictures of dinosaurs. sometimes i practice drumming on the countertop and sometimes i print out register tape and write down notes: "here, i can't even tell when i'm trying or honest" "nature called" "retail is all about making the customer feel smarter than the previous customer" "troy equates breaking managment's rules by drinking soda at the counter with his ancestral slave revolts" "georgia gives me hope because she's old enough to be slow and grey but has managed to evade scientific logic by smoking cigarettes during every one of her breaks."

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