life on easy creed

2002-06-04 [ 12:55 am ]
I'm having a time crisis. Things that happened two years ago, seem tritely enough like only yesterday.

Maybe it is working at the Kwik Mart again. My favourite scene in The Picture of Dorian Gray was towards the end as Dorian stumbled along the streets, lamenting his soul, he hears a young woman whisper to her companion: "That is Dorian Gray".

I worked my first evening tonight in over six months, I think. I had some characters come in, that is for sure. A 55 year old Hungarian women who seriously recommended that me and my generation riot on Parliament Hill and take Chretien out. A man who caught me reading "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and went on to explain how he based his life around that book. (Including a cat named "Zaphod Beeblebrox")

And a 16 year old girl who was shocked to see me, who said "You're the Kwik Mart guy." I made a comment to Maggie, jokingly, about how I am two steps away from a legacy in this town as "the Kwik Mart guy", and she forgot to laugh... she said it was true, that all of her friends, people I don't even know, refer to me as the Kwik Mart guy.

It makes me happy that I have a super-minor role in the stories of many lives... I fuel addictions.

This is the closure I think I needed at this job. Now I feel as if I've made it, ridiculously enough, I feel like I want to go, and it's only been three days.

But since I am staying, because the money is actually not bad coupled with my pizza job, I am going to exploit my time there, like I am good at, and read, and write. Yep. Two pages per shift. I just decided.

Baby, take me higher!

photo by: kam2k