Well, it’s good to see that about once a month I feel the urge to put something into words in this here blog. Perhaps this space will end up serving a purpose similar to growth charts; each month I’ll put my heels back against the wall, take a deep breath, throw my shoulders back and make a mark behind me.
I am doing well, thanks for asking. I am thankful for employment, thrilled at the idea of long-term employment with this editing job, and so grateful for all of the perks that come along with it. The work is new and exciting, and while it stretches my brain from editor to neurosurgeon-in-training and back again, I am finding the exercise exhilarating. Do you know the difference between an m-dash and an n-dash? Do you know how to write an operative dictation for a shunt replacement? I’m learning. Mostly learning the ins and outs of formatting and editing, but certainly dropping some knowledge about the neuro side of things, too. Neat.
In related news, I’m glad I have something to tell people when they ask what I’m doing these days. I graduated from college in May(ish…shhh). I moved out of my parents’s house a couple months ago. I am still working at Caribou (can’t deny that discount?), but I am also working as the editor for a small medical publishing company that has great potential for growth.
Growth. There it is again. I have very little to complain about. What a dramatic change that is from just a few months back. I am not bogged down in the day-to-day drudgery of college life, keeping up with everyone else’s totally justifiable histrionics. I am not bogged down in my own drudgery, in constant flux between mania and depression. I am growing. Stretching. Pulling my lines taut. Preparing for flight.
It is migratory season, after all.
Thanks for sharing. I adore you, and it makes me happy to see that you seem to be in good spirits and coming out of the Albion funk.
Comment by yesterdaysyeti — October 22, 2009 @ 1:33 pm |