More to Love

I left the sneakiest crane yet, tonight at the grocery store. Due to the popularity of the “Imagine” crane, I wrote an excerpt of that song on today’s crane, but in large letters. It had an abstract look to it, and the red on white was rather striking.

The picture is a little close because I had to be careful with this one; there were people everywhere. Here’s the portion of the song I used:

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world live as one.”

There’s something exciting about being sneaky with these cranes. Maybe I just don’t want people to realize that I’m littering. It’s not very “green” to leave cranes lying around. I’ve been looking for origami paper with recycled content, but the packages in my local craft store are in another language, and I haven’t found anything online yet. Any suggestions?

How to Post a Job Opening

I am in charge of the job-posting to find my replacement at the company where I currently work. Here’s what I would actually post if I had the liberty to write what I wanted:

Wanted: Administrative Assistant for small company (2 employees) that has absolutely no growth potential. We are a small company that is likely to become obsolete in the next five years due to our incapacity for adapting to new technologies.

Responsibilities:

1. Answering phones
2. Finding boss’s glasses/keys/cell phone/special pen/lost 2 inch scrap of paper with important information
3. Taking customer orders/creating and managing invoices
4. Listening to boss’s personal problems and possibly assisting in resolving them
5. Teaching boss how to use Microsoft Word and the internet
6. Laughing at anecdotes that are not funny that you’ve possibly heard before

Requirements

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and internet — specifically, knowing more than the boss. If you know where the bold key is, you know more than the boss.
• Incredible patience
• Motivation to do banal tasks
• A sense of humor
• The ability to watch someone chew food with their mouth open

How to apply for this job:

Please don’t apply for this job through my blog. There really is a position opening for an administrative assistant, but this is not the actual job posting. You’ll have to find it yourself. And to clarify, I felt it necessary to warn all those people with great resumes and lots of potential how menial this job feels, even though my boss is a very nice person.

I’m Part of the Rebel Alliance and a Traitor — Take me Away!

Someone may or may not have played hooky today. I didn’t go to work. I didn’t clean, or leave a paper crane in a mysterious place. I didn’t do much of anything, actually. It felt very good. How relaxing, in a rebellious sort of way.

Taking a Leaf from Post Secret

I love Post Secret. While I have never contributed a postcard to the blog, today I copied what fans do when they find a Post Secret book in a bookstore: I left a crane directly in a book. It wasn’t a Post Secret book, but a book on war. I thought it only fitting. I wrote a series of peace quotes on today’s crane and then left it on a particular page in a dictionary-type of book on the events of 9/11. Which page, you ask?

I don’t normally spend so much time in bookstores (which is highly unfortunate, now that I think about it), but Seth’s birthday is coming up, and I’ve been looking for something in particular for him. I feel stealthier in the bookstore hiding cranes than I do in the mall, even though it’s easier to do it unnoticed in a bookstore. In a bookstore, no one looks at you funny if you’re in the children’s section without any kids, or in the pet section without a dog tucked in your purse. Oh well.

I feel like I’m just waiting for things to happen at this point: for the volunteer meeting at Challenge Unlimited, for my new job to start, for the perfect table to appear for my little meditation space, for Springtime. I don’t like feeling so passive, but I don’t see what else I can do. Except, of course, fold more cranes. What other way is there to pass the time?

On a side note, many thanks to the person who posted a link to my blog on the Abbey Road website. While I do love the song “Imagine,” I intend to spread other words of peace and kindness, and not just those of the John Lennon/Yoko Ono variety. I hope others do the same.

The Bluest Day

Today felt like a blue day, probably due to the overcast skies and snow flurries. Our windows give us morning sunlight only, and on days like today, the apartment seems dark and dreary — which is why I had to get out. I headed to the Northshore Mall, the perfect place to hide paper cranes.

For some reason, I want to leave the cranes where kids can find them. I tried to be inconspicuous and hide a crane near the rides section of the mall — you know, that place where you put in a few quarters and your kids can pretend they’re on a roller coaster or something. It’s hard to be clandestine near a kid place if you don’t have any kids. People tend to notice you more. I’m all for that on a regular day; I would want someone to notice a stranger acting covert near my kids. But it sure made it difficult to hide a crane. In the end, I couldn’t pull it off.

Seth and I wound up in Filene’s Basement, where we hid a crane in the shoe section.

I hope someone finds it and takes it home. I didn’t have the gumption to write anything cool on it this morning, not even my blog address. Just another symptom of a blue day.