Everything is changing…
My boss from the past three semesters left today, our accountant the week before; we have some new hires (including possibly 3 new males! which is crazy considering we were entirely female just last semester); I’m being temporarily promoted to Reprints Manager while the reprints manager is on maternity leave for the summer. (Taking on a full-time publishing job for a few months, guys! :-D). Not to mention the overall change everyone’s anticipating with the digital revolution of book publishing. Printing is dying; at least traditional (good quality) printing and binding is… losing quality for quantity with print-on-demand and poorly designed, typesetted, and edited books are flooding the ebook world. Academic presses like ours are reluctant to start anew and jump on the bandwagon, but it seems inevitable…
My family is moving. From their home of 19 years. We’re saying goodbye to it at last and I’m trying not to be sentimental about it. Trying to be strong. But strength, I suppose, is relative.
No more “permanent address” now. Time to face that this right here, my home with 8-12 (depending on the day) people and 4 dogs, this is the closest thing I’ve got to a permanent residence. All this talk around me about how we’re young and need to still explore and travel the world and fuck-settling-down-because-we-have-the-rest-of-our-lives-to-settle-down talk confuses and excites me. I’ve been bouncing like a pingpong ball for the past three years and I still have one more to go. I want to travel, I want to try new things, honestly, I do….But I’d just like to finally be able to call a place home and mean it.
Relationships are changing, people are growing and shaping themselves to their new circumstances, others don’t want to accept where things are now and are fighting too hard against the journey that inevitably is life.
I feel like I need a Lao Tzu quote right now to sum this up, but I don’t feel like searching one out. “Must” do schoolwork, after all. Hypothetical imperatives and what-not.
So for now, the simple statement, quote by noone: Change is in the air and only the unknown awaits
