The wedding is getting closer and closer, and now it seems like time is actually accelerating. My face is stretching, my arms, torso, legs, toes are stretching, the world, desk, lamp, pile of bounced checks are collapsing into a swirl and by the time I get to the next paragraph POP it will have already happened and I will have been flushed through the great quantum cosmic wormhole toiletbowl.
[Note: the bounced checks aren’t mine. I’m at work, and they are from our constituents. Better-paid co-workers occasionally ask me if people really do bounce $20 checks and yes, yes they do. Frequently.]
[People also can get very very upset if they somehow decide we have mishandled their $20 check – which is a donation to a 501©(3) organization – and statistically speaking they’re more likely to be hit by an asteroid.]
But I guess I lied about the wedding already having happened by the time I got to the next paragraph. The wedding is the 21st and today is the 5th. But I do still have this feeling of being bobbed along in a strong current, and the whole wedding thing seems more unreal than real most of the time. I’m still short of time on a day-to-day basis, there are just so many errands to run and so many things to put away, and so much to do at work.
So, knowing the wedding is going to be this great, important and life-changing event I just can’t escape this feeling that I’m going to be looking the other way when it happens and miss it altogether. I hope it’s not like that.