Your Unemployed Daughter

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This morning I thought it was Tuesday until about 10 am, when I looked at myself in the mirror after putting on a cardigan I’d worn on Monday and said to myself, “Wait a minute!” Yep, it’s halfway through the week, on the verge of WINTER HAVOC (downed power lines, heavy snow, high winds—o’ my!), and I for one am rather happy it’s hump day. And aside from a bit too much chicken in my bibimbap, rather happy in general.

I spoke to my mom on the phone yesterday (she’s been moved out of ICU and into a regular room at the hospital), and she sounded very much herself, except for a still-raspy voice due to her breathing tube being in all last week. Which is great, nay, fantastic news. Thanks again to everyone who put good vibes in the air or said a prayer or did whatever things you do to try to make things right in the world.

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Why is today so long?

And why do I wish that it were shorter, thereby cutting my time on this earth down by several hours if only so that I could be at home watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey instead of here looking up at the MetLife building and checking the clock periodically between uppercasing and lowercasing the letters in certain charts which must not be mentioned by name and offering the occasional “Bless you” when a neighboring freelancer sneezes and wondering if perhaps I should have said “gesundheit” instead, because who am I to assume I know what prayers he might or might not be saying in his head?

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