Tom finished my book and next we’ll edit it one chapter at a time.

Walmart didn’t call, but hopefully that’s only because it’s President’s Day. If she doesn’t call him back, he’ll call her. Almost anyone can work at Walmart, and I’ve always known this, yet now, because we need and want him to work there so badly and because we have something up there that’s so against us, I feel as if we’re talking about a job that’s hard to get, almost as if he were auditioning for a role in a movie.

I’m still finding it hard to concentrate on my current book while we still don’t know for sure what’s going on. I should tell myself he won’t get hired at Walmart and that we’ll be in this duplex another year and move on. Then, if by some chance I’m wrong, it’ll come as a pleasant surprise.