On a rainy day, a girl dressed in pajamas, with an extreme case of bed head, sits with a cup of coffee and starts looking for some motivation. Music helps her get going unlike anything else, so she employs an internet radio station and then chugs the remainder of her coffee like a beer. Its her day off, so she can completely focus on school work, without the usual, impending deadline of work.
She beings to type fiercely on her chrome laptop. Its a great day to be inside, as it’s pouring cats and dogs; but a half an hour into her work she will have to take her dog outside. When it rains, she has to take out an oversized polka dotted umbrella to hover over the dog. The idea is that by getting covered from the rain, that he so vehemently loathes, he will allow nature to call outside, as opposed to inside her apartment. Once the little divo has been walked, she takes a breakfast break and then sits back down with her computer.
Hours pass her by and she takes breaks by doing her daily chores, singing loudly around the house and making her dog dance with her. Around 2:00PM she receives a phone call from one of her friends, asking her for a favor. She agrees and starts getting presentable enough to meet her friend’s family, as she is going to pick them up from the subway. She determines that if she is going to go out in this kind of weather, she’ll do it only in her hot pink rain boots.
She showers, takes her dog out and eats lunch all within an impressive forty minutes. Taking the elevator down, she waits in the lobby for her friend to swing by to get her. Even though she’s a scared driver, her friend trusts her enough with her car. As minutes pass and her friend is running a little bit late (which shouldn’t be a surprise to her), all she can think about is how much work is sitting at home waiting for her. Serendipitously, once she decides not to stress over it, her friend’s silver car arrives. She hops in the car and knows its only a matter of time until she can return home and get back to work. She always tries to do a good deed every day and she can put a check mark next to this one.
Aw, that's very good, very much a pleasure to read--makes my job easy to not have to pick a piece apart; I can just say, 'Good' and move on. Of course, that's not really much help to you, so here's why I think it works so nicely.
ReplyDeleteThat detailing really takes us through the day; the inconsequential things like the pink boots and 'divo' and so on just make a piece breath and live. The writing is not overwritten with adjective, adverbs, and fancy verbs--because you have a narrative strand, everything hangs on it easily without fancying up.