Another Drink

[banshee1067]

Pour myself a stronger dose of whiskey, pleased to see there's a lot left in that pint. Of course, on my way back to the bedroom, the door catches on my elbow and I spill some of it. I manage to restrain myself from smashing the glass in my face as "punishment", setting it down and figuring I'll get some aerosol carpet cleaner tomorrow or Friday

Comments

[eriktrips]

the other thing I wanted to say but forgot: you aren't your job. your job is something you do, probably to pay the rent and bills. you do other things too, but you don't consider yourself a "sandwich eater" or a "drinker" or a "pisser" or a "shopper" or any of those things, do you?

I think in the US way too much emphasis is put upon what you do for money. what you do for money is whatever you can do that is least painful. what you do for yourself, what you do when you have time to do what you want to do--that comes much closer to describing what you are