so it's like 1 in the morning and even though i am tired and should go to bed, i can't help but stay up and listen to some frank sinatra. i love those times where you get in a mood and there's a certain type of music that comforts you, excites you, makes you happy? tonight frank is doing my dirty work.

today i got my first paycheck. working full-time kind of sucks, but the paychecks make it worth it. eight-hundred dollars every two weeks is a whole lot more than the €75 i earned in the six weeks i worked (illegally) at my internship in Berlin. one time i was bored and i figured out how much that was per hour— approximately 31 euro cents. throw in the exchange rate and we're talking under thirty american cents per hour. i think there are kids in chinese sweatshops who make more than that. dang...