Company

Things happen when company comes.  In the last two days, warning lights appeared on the dashboard of the car, the electricity spontaneously stopped working on one side of the house, and I lost my cell phone.  These events were purely coincidental and in no way caused by my lovely college friend’s arrival, but having a witness did make me a bit more aware of how I handle things.

We don’t get thrown much by the little stuff here.  I looked up the warning lights and dropped the car at the garage, tried the fuse breakers and ran orange extension cords to two bedrooms, and eventually found the cell phone under the couch.

I also had the pleasure of walking a hilltop at sunset with my friend, making lemonade from scratch, touring the Mark Twain House, and seeing Harry Potter 7.2 in a theater full of fans.

I like surfacing from my revisions now and then to see what’s up in the real world.  Now I’m going back under.