OK, so Aaron and I realized late the night before our yard sale that we hadn’t put up signs at the nearby major intersection. We got into the mini and zoomed up there. Lucky for us, we got to meet "Baby Girl" at the bus stop. She was very happy to be in our picture, but she made sure she took her hair down and fixed it purty first:
The Whole Sign:
I’m going. Glad it’s early, too. These last internship days are kicking my ass. There are really only 7 more days of work to go. 😀
10 more days of internship. TEN MORE DAYS!!! I will have a Ph.D., a six-figure (yes SIX-figure) student loan debt, and a world of Memphian experience behind me, plus all that stuff I did in Indiana. I can’t believe it’s all finally ending. It’s been a REALLY long year. There’s still so much paperwork to do. Case conceptualizations and logs and evaluations and such. I hate paperwork, and I picked a terrible field for it. We have to document every stupid thing. I’m about to head into supervision. I’m really happy to not have too many more meetings with this one. I can’t go into it, but trust me on this one. I dread every meeting.
We advertised an 8am start, and the people started arriving at 6:45am. We never even had a chance to eat breakfast. It was packed most of the day. After what seemed like hours of activity (me mostly greeting people, selling, and taking money, and Aaron bringing more and more stuff down), Aaron said it was noon. I thought, "Yeah. I’m hungry. Only two more hours." Turns out it was really 8:50am, and the clock had stopped. We ended up with $1,400 in our pockets! (It’ll all go to paying off bills to get us out of here, but it’s $1,400 we didn’t have before!) I’ve never seen anything like it! By the end, we were giving stuff away. Anyone in Memphis need a free microwave? Mine didn’t sell. I want to keep it for myself (might as well) until I go, but if you’re willing to wait a coupla weeks, it’s yours.
BTW, if you’re ever in Nashville, I highly recommend Obie’s pizza. It’s seriously some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. Since we couldn’t ever leave the sale, ordering pizza was a must!
I just read on Mark’s blog that Ibrahim Ferrer (of Buena Vista Social Club fame) died. So sad. I just love him. I’m so glad Ry Cooder made the movie that ensured that his last years were great. If you haven’t seen and heard BVSC, or if you haven’t heard Ferrer’s solo album, I highly recommend you look into remedying that situation.
