I’m feeling great. I’ve been great since, oh, July. This is monumental! Before this one, I don’t know when I last had such a stretch of greatness.
Yesterday was a day that would have been ‘one of those days’ if I hadn’t been feeling great. Part of the heel of my right shoe broke off on the way to work, so all day I had one foot that made ‘click’ and the other that made ‘toc!.’ My right foot was slippery and uneven compared to my left one, but it didn’t bother me that much. I used some of my free time at work to cut out a piece of cardboard to tape over the heel, but the cardboard came off after a couple of trips to the water cooler.
Then, after work, I went to a snazzy wine bar with one of the attorneys and drank a glass of DELICIOUS Malbec ($13! I’m not in Toulouse any more!). It felt new, but good, being in that bar full of Young Professionals having a Happy Hour Drink after their Day in the Office. I didn’t feel out of place. It occurred to me that never before in my life would I have been comfortable there, for a host of reasons, but right now I’m in the honeymoon stage of this new life I’m living, and everything feels charming and fresh.
After the wine, I said goodbye to my co-worker, saw my bus pulling up to the stop across the street, and started to run towards it (with my wine legs and broken heel). I slid across the asphalt like a baseballer into home, shredding my tights and one shin, but managed to bounce back up and trot onto the bus before a car hit me or my co-worker turned around and saw his tipsy receptionist lose it all over Connecticut Avenue.
Success! I am in the working world!