Feeling Official
Today, I officially started my job. It feels like where I want/need to be. It's big enough and different enough that I think I will have a lot of room to grow and a lot to learn as quickly as I can. At the same time, it became immediately apparent that they were willing to throw me right into editing and writing stories regularly.
I am also an official library card holder at the Watauga County Public Library, which weirdly makes me feel more permanent than starting my job or registering to vote here did. I have four books checked out: Atonement (Ian McEwan), because I watched the film, and the part I enjoyed most about it was imagining how it was written, Lolita (Nabakov), because I've been curious ever since Reading Lolita, A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul) because I wanted something new and I can't resist the Vintage imprint, and Going After Cacciato, because I am fascinated by Tim O'Brien's views on how fiction renders history better than history itself. I'm also reading The Lost Continent, because I, like Bill Bryson have a complex love/hate relationship with small town America. Probably the most exciting part about evenings alone without cable television is the prospect of reading all of these books.
I am also an official library card holder at the Watauga County Public Library, which weirdly makes me feel more permanent than starting my job or registering to vote here did. I have four books checked out: Atonement (Ian McEwan), because I watched the film, and the part I enjoyed most about it was imagining how it was written, Lolita (Nabakov), because I've been curious ever since Reading Lolita, A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul) because I wanted something new and I can't resist the Vintage imprint, and Going After Cacciato, because I am fascinated by Tim O'Brien's views on how fiction renders history better than history itself. I'm also reading The Lost Continent, because I, like Bill Bryson have a complex love/hate relationship with small town America. Probably the most exciting part about evenings alone without cable television is the prospect of reading all of these books.