The most memorable Christmas present that this recently laid-off newspaper copy editor received in 2008:
My older daughter bought me a book when the University of Missouri was culling its stacks: Arville Schaleben’s 1961 (my birth year) Your Future in Journalism.
And just to make it extra-special, on the spine label was stamped, in big red letters, “DISCARD.”
Gotta love it.
Today I ran across a posting on a job board seeking a “reality editor.”
I had NO IDEA that was a possible career. Where do I sign up?
Second quote for the day:
“The problem with new experiences is that they’re so rarely the ones you choose.”
– Hobbes in “Calvin and Hobbes,” Dec. 17, 1995
Reading this after being laid off gives it a whole new meaning …
I am working through The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O’Connor’s letters edited by Sally Fitzgerald. An excerpt:
“I read [Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica] for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, ‘Turn off that light. It’s late,’ I with lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, ‘On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,’ or some such thing.”
Not everybody would find that amusing. Actually, not too many people would. But I do.
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