essence of the great life

Once a year, I see Chris, when he and Laura visit Curtis from Chicago, so we get to catch up just a little. Whatcha doin, Chris asked me. How's things, I asked him. Oh, ok, he said. Hmm, I'm ok too, though, to tell the truth, my life is rather exciting. Exciting? he asked. Um, are you a secret agent? I took my time with that, not wanting to say no. It's sort of similar, I said. I'm playing journalist.

The thing to understand about journalism is, it's not what you're documenting that creates the excitement ... well, that's half of it, but not all of it ... it's that you're documenting. Even if what you're documenting is small stuff, or meek and mild stuff (there's no shortage of interesting stuff), describing it makes you a journalist, i.e., a secret agent.