I don’t know how to tell you this.
I have a job. It’s
a part-time job and I’m not sure it will continue after the summer, but I’m
counting it anyway. I know. It’s the story of my life. You could almost
cheer for me but it’s just a little too uncertain to celebrate. It does mean I shower early every day and put
on clothes that match somewhat and it requires a car ride and a door key to the
place. That sounds like a real job doesn’t it?
On top of the
blurriness of my employment, I am also doing something I’ve never really done
much of before. I am copy editing. Oh, I’ve been an editor. I can decide which
story stays and which story goes, and what to put on page 3 but I’ve never
worried about using a semicolon so much in my life. Or a capital letter or the
space bar. It’s quite something. I’ve already lost several hours sleep over
letting Roxberry slip through when it should have been Roxbury.
I have to admit
that the routine feels good. And today I worked on deadline day and the server
was out for a couple of hours. I felt the rush of adrenaline just like the old
days only this time I realized it wasn’t my rush and I could walk out the door
leaving everyone else to deal with the rest of deadline day. Honestly, that
part was really, really cool.
And while we’re
discussing new experiences, I want to talk a little bit about sunglasses.
As my old friend
Evelyn Stelmashuck says, wearing sunglasses makes me feel like I am “showing on
myself.” That’s right. It’s the same with hats. I just cannot bring myself to
wear either one of those props. I’ve gone hatless and sunglassless my whole
life.
Well that’s all
changed now. I bought a pair of sunglasses with very smart multicolored frames
moments ago at Leslie’s Drugstore where the cashier told me they were
“cute.” I plan to wear them. The sun is
so omnipresent here that I really don’t have much choice. It’s the sunglasses
or laser surgery within the next few years if I don’t bite my weird phobia and put
them on. And I took up wearing the occasional baseball cap months ago but only
when there’s a slight drizzle outside.
Let this be a
lesson to you: Indeed, you can change. It all depends on where you are and how
you adapt to your surroundings. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go out on
the deck and read a book with my new sunglasses. The sun is too bright today
for baseball caps.
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