Assigning route
It happened while I was ordering spuds at the counter of the local IGA while I stuffed my pocket full of free packets of ketchup and Hellman's mayonnaise.
I turned around as she was walking away from me. The back of her hoodie read: Don't Quit.
I thought about:
How I'm quitting my greenhouse job where my miss manager sees my enthusiasm as a threat
How the small-town cafe I applied at steams milk like Starbucks and “don’t do” latte art and the owner seems unable to give me an answer about my resume even though I know that the espresso machine should always be to the side of the till —not behind it— and that her betta in the fishbowl is suffering from cold stress and how my aquascaping skills should be enough for her to ask me for an interview at a cafe that has a fishbowl with two plastic twigs in it.
I know a sign when I see a sign. But what was that sign for?
The next few days:
I got a rejection in my email
I read an article about how Ai is outdoing human creativity
I started a novel and it’s kinda boring