The Down-Slope

It's Your Day!

Posted by Jess is Jess , Friday, January 15, 2010 Friday, January 15, 2010

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

Yeah, okay. Right now it feels like my ship might capsize. I'm sure it will not.

Because I am a strong person.

Just ask my mother.

Because even if my ship were to capsize, naturally I would be able to turn it over and scoop all of the water out myself.

Because that is what strong people do.

They don't let their ships capsize.

Or they swim for land and make a friend out of a volleyball like Tom Hanks (I don't think he was in a shipwreck in that movie).

Today I would rather float along with the wreckage. However, that makes me think about that movie with the two divers stuck out in the water. No good.

I guess the only answer is to stop the ship from capsizing or whatever else might happen in a storm.

Gross.

I am strong.

I am resilient.

Tomorrow I am going to apply for a job at a restaurant (something that I vowed never to do again, but due to the storm . . . a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do . . . savvy?), work at my job at the Museum for an unbelievably long shift (2 horas), and then do something else.

I don't know what.

I would take a walk along the greenway by my house, it really is lovely. But all I can think of is how if I do that by myself I will be asking to be murdered.

You know the drill, young woman lives alone, recently moved to the big city, walking along a quiet, wooded path.

What?

You think I watch too much television? Too many police dramas?

Guess we will never find out what would have happened since I am going to take the easy way out and not go for that walk.

Phew.

That was a close one.

No worries, folks. I will perservere.

Through the storm and everything.

Perhaps I will work on my Spanish.

Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

¿Te gustaría ir a dar un paseo?