employed

i got a job today. not one i wanted, but... the money is good. enough to keep body and soul together... and then some.

enough for my father to finally prove what he believed all along: that two daughters are not two liabilities..

enough for my mother to cry copious tears of joy and relief... copious because all mothers' tears tend to be... joy that I'll now earn about as much as her evil colleague's drone of an engineer son.. relief that the trousseau that she never had enough to set aside for will now take care of itself.

and all i feel is sleepy.. not happy or sad or even some obscure, unnamed and uninhabited town poised uneasily on the long road 'twixt happy and sad. just sleepy...

sheesh...