Los Hooligans played our last gig of the season downtown on the Fulton Mall. Due to a mishap with a sustain pedal, the keyboard made no sound for most of our set. For some reason, Kopi, Channel 26's friendly weather man shot footage of us playing, and got about four extended close-ups of my fingers faking up-beats. There was little tension between Kopi and our guitarist, Channel 47's A.J. Fox.

Navigating the Bureaucracy

I attended Fresno Unified's orientation for classified staff members, and the union rep was very nice, if perhaps a little addled. She got us very excited about our cut rates on movie and Disneyland tickets, and talked a little about the union's legal protection. I, in a flush of pinko unionite pride, put myself down for an extra four dollars a month, for membership to the Victory Club.

Next, a women from administrative personnel expounded on the incompetence of the union rep and then told us what all the papers we had signed last week meant. I am a chapter 27 employee, step one. Once I've got sixty units of school done, I'll move up to step two and get a sixty-one cent raise.

Tomorrow I start work, and I'll be playing piano all day.

-Max