Jesse has gotten his first job. He works a couple of times a week behind the concessions stand at Lindenwood, handing out drinks and food to other students. His pay is a choice of drink and food at the end of snack time. And of course, being Jesse, he has to put his own mark as his role of server. My kid can't just stand behind a counter taking orders. My kid has to do it with a Jamaican accent. "Hey, mon. What do you want, mon? The only thing free, mon, is water and ice. Go away, mon."

This could be the reason behind Jesse not getting his homework done at Lindenwood like he's supposed to.

Weekend recap: We didn't do anything Friday night. I had managed to get so tense at work on Thursday that I could barely move my neck on Friday. So I barely left the bed. Saturday we were the laziest family on the planet. I didn't take a shower until 2. Jesse and I laid in my bed and watched TV and movies all morning and early afternoon. "A Knight's Tale" is not a bad movie. I met up with Ron and Susan that night to check out our new Trivia Night venue: TJ Mulligan's. An old college friend who now lives in Chicago, Mike Norton, was in town and he and his girlfriend showed up later. We blew a three-point lead and first place win on the very last question of the game. We got the answer right. But we didn't bet enough points. Mike is a comic book illustrator; he's done work on Teen Titans, Spiderman, all kinds of cool stuff. He brought a book down of Teen Titans comics and signed it to Jesse and even did a quick sketch of Beast Boy for Jesse. Sunday consisted mainly of more laying around. My house is filthy. Jesse and I did go out for a few hours. He wanted to buy some soldiers at the dollar store (he also bought me a mug), and I took him to Bookstar. We sat in the coffee shop at the bookstar, drinking frozen drinks. Then we walked around a bit. I found a spelling dictionary and bought that for him. He was not grateful at all.