My second interview for the high-end restaurant job is now scheduled for Friday afternoon. If all goes well I’ll be serving random Chaucer quotes with French fries in no time flat. Fuck it, it’s a service economy.

Camilla leaves at 5:30 today. I think we are all agreed that it is easier to leave fast then to leave slow. It didn’t really feel like goodbye. I’m sure we’ll see her again sooner rather than later. If nothing else Vick and I have hatched a plan to go stay with her in Chile for a visit.

So, to celebrate my coming interview and hopeful employment status I am going to go sit in the backyard with an iced bucket of Coronas and read my new book – Hyperion – since I finished Neverworld this morning.