I'm hemorrhaging cash at a ridiculous pace and need work ASAP. Just until the restaurant opens, but I'm out of funds in my bank, at my limit on my credit card, and a couple of projected/anticipated positions have yet to manifest.

So, there's a shoe store up the street that's hiring. And I think to myself "Why Not?", only, it's a ladies shoe store, and so I float the idea of getting myself done up in a velvet cape and crown and treating all the girls like Cinderella, and, thinking way back, I did once as a kid work at Footlocker in the mall and again as a cobbler at "Heels", so, it's not like I haven't done this before...

Anyways, write up my resume with the Prince Charming spin and put it out there. A pleasant enough interview, although I think they were reasonably suspicious that I wasn't a very convincing Prince Charming. But you have to try...

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In the end, out of 8 boxes of books (another 24 to go) - 6 are rejected. Of the 2 they took, comprising 4 heaps of thin, more contemporary books, perhaps 70 books all told, $35.00 paid.

But I need to change the way I look at it, revise my thinking, I have the books inside, and it's - while a write off in every economic sense - it's still a lot easier to carry around $35.00 and buy the next book than it is carry around 8 boxes in the possibility I may one day want to reread one.

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“As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.”

Faulkner's letter to the postmaster general, upon his leaving the post office.

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Bestselling Economist and Author Thomas Piketty rejects France's Legion D'Honneur with the pithy: "I do not think it is the government's role to decide who is honourable".

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30650097

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