Coming Down
“Complete with dustbins, abandoned bicycles and a resident cat, it has all the elements to guarantee a sleepless night. Yet it isn’t rattling bin lids or screeching kittens that keep me awake, but a strange mattress and the lack of body heat. Not to mention an overactive thought process that just won’t shut up. I lie in the darkness and make plans. Determined this is a stopgap; I can’t live like a perpetual student forever.
The next week is spent doing all the crappy things you never think a...bout before a move: changing my address with the world and his wife, setting up contracts, and finding the strength to telephone my parents and break the news to them. When I finally get around to it, I end up having to lean out of my window to get some reception.
“Bethany, how lovely to hear from you.” My mother has that ‘we have company’ tone to her voice. She’s overdoing the gushing. “How are you, darling?”
I can almost picture what she’s wearing: some variation on the skirt suits she always chooses when she hosts dinner.MoreLess
The next week is spent doing all the crappy things you never think a...bout before a move: changing my address with the world and his wife, setting up contracts, and finding the strength to telephone my parents and break the news to them. When I finally get around to it, I end up having to lean out of my window to get some reception.
“Bethany, how lovely to hear from you.” My mother has that ‘we have company’ tone to her voice. She’s overdoing the gushing. “How are you, darling?”
I can almost picture what she’s wearing: some variation on the skirt suits she always chooses when she hosts dinner.MoreLess
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