something long and meandering about construction

[jillard]

i'm glad i didn't quit that first week i got sent to the new job, coming home inexplicably crying every night without words to explain why. my father saw me frustruated and i didn't want to tell him that i hated this job he's been doing for almost thirty years, that my spirit couldn't handle real hard work and buildings without walls or windows

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[oh_why_not]

"i feel terrible. i haven't written anything of real merit, with any finished effort, in all of 2009."

well, you've officially negated that statement. this is beautiful & what i tried to accomplish while i was working & failed. good job.