“During the day, I serve coffee and underwhelming slices of pie,” she said. “At night, I play bass in a band, which is not what I’d call lucrative. Once you split the cash and pay for new equipment, there’s not much left. Sometimes we get paid in beer. But,” she shrugged. “I always string it together, somehow. By the way, lest I overstate things, allow me to make it patently clear. I’m no virtuoso on the bass. I asked to play the tambourine and the guys said, what do you think this is, Fleetwood Mac? But they wanted a girl to offset the testosterone.”