i went back to my office on Friday for the first time since my accident.
There was a kind of post-Chernobyl quality to the frozen-in-time-and-abandoned tableau of those once familiar objects on my desk.
My week-at-a-glance calendar lay open where I had left off. It was covered in a fine layer of dust, and the August 2010 headline stared back at me auspiciously.
There was no entry for "Fall 20 Feet Down A Black Hole" penciled in for after lunch on Tuesday August 24th.
A new draft of a screenplay for one of my projects was dated August 18. That was the day we left for Malaysia.
A stack of unpaid bills called out for attention, and the batteries had died on my three-time-zone clock leaving the hour and minute hands quietly still.
As I looked around the room, I imagined a Babes In Toyland or Toy Story-like scenario of the animated life these inanimate objects must have enjoyed in my long absence.
Suddenly it felt quite suspicious that my iTunes was open to the "party song" playlist, my bookshelf of dvd's had clearly been riffled through like some drive-in movie theater, and what was that entry in my check book ledger made out to "office supplies"? Right!
It was clearly time for me to re-assert my dominion over this once-familiar territory, but with the new perspective that is afforded to one whose life has been interrupted.
Enjoy!
william
we really needed those office supplies! and am home in Chi digging those CD's I found... :) glad you are back where the world needs you- making great movies !
Posted by: mh | November 22, 2010 at 07:15 AM
Big thumbs up on reaching another milepost along the road back, WH. Make the most of that new crispness in your perspective, and keep on keepin' on!
Posted by: John | November 22, 2010 at 09:33 AM
The man is back!
And it happened a lot faster than I expected.
I cannot believe that you're already driving around this city, Billy.
You're one of the strongest people I know.
I'm learning a lot from your, as always :)
Love
E.
Posted by: Elsita | November 22, 2010 at 03:47 PM
What a bizarre experience. Glad to hear that you are getting around again.
Posted by: Snippety Gibbet | November 22, 2010 at 04:58 PM
You should have left out some sewing. I'm sure the elves and winged ones would have left it in a neat pile for you. Too they're not down with the bill paying.
Have you mentioned Flim Flam Man before? Because for the last month or so I have been using that term, and I am wondering if I picked it up here. If not, then cue the Twilight zone intro! :)
Glad you are back amongst the stuff of life.
Posted by: Diane | November 23, 2010 at 01:36 AM
I'm glad that you're up and about and feeling well enough to go back to work. Flim-Flam will be an interesting movie.
Posted by: Janet M | November 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM
i can agree with the write-up
Posted by: Vacation | December 04, 2012 at 02:49 AM