Along my Baldwin School route through Bryn Mawr this morning, Jane and I noticed that the Psychic Who Advises On All Problems had closed her shop and the storefront was now being offered for re-rental.
Sensibly, Jane asked whether a psychic should be expected to anticipate a failing business? Her tone clearly implied that she knew the answer was “of course.”
The psychic’s business only lasted about 18 months. Before her, a good dressmaker and a tailor, Korean immigrants who altered Jane’s 8th grade semi-formal dress, a ravishing rosy Betsy Johnson, occupied the space, but ultimately they couldn’t survive the Obama economy.
"From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall" to Swarthmore, and all along PA Routes 30, 1, 252 up to infinity, businesses falter, fail, and multitudes struggle unsuccessfully to find employment in the Grievance Culture sector of Vanity Fair. Every single day I check off job application boxes stating that I have no disability, and by doing so create one (an additional one, actually; anyone familiar with online application self-identification protocol will know what I mean), a virtual LED flashing, warning HR robots and trolls of personal fatal impediments preventing me from ever getting hired in Nowville.
For all the value I have tried to afford others throughout my career, I myself am currently accorded no value whatsoever. A record falling off the charts (or one that never made them), I'm "over."
At least I’ve had my career. Post-college job seekers, it seems, are truly the Walking Dead.
Here it comes; here it comes. My 19th Nervous Breakdown. Four more years like the last four years. Fucking brilliant.
Best regards!
ReplyDeleteAnd best regards back. Off to Philadelphia to a veterinary appointment. Our dog Andy has made some welcome progress, which we're hoping to have confirmed by the doctors at Penn Veterinary. Hope rush hour isn't too bad. I will miss seeing the Psychic Who Advises On All Problems' "Open" sign. Bryn Mawr is an interesting index of national economic health. I would like to patronize their movie theater more frequently, but there is another, quite nice cinema closer to us and the Vietnamese restaurant next to the theater also closed. Ack! Curtis
DeleteThank you. Best of luck at the vet's:)
DeleteNorway has oil, we are outside everything still (?).
I'm pleased to report that the vet visit went well. Gradual but continuing positive developments and progress, which it was very good to have confirmed. We'll see how this goes, but can't complain about anything here except fatigue. Curtis
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