What do you tell the dentist when he asks you what you're doing now that you've graduated from college? You know that you have about 25 seconds to say something before he sticks a metal scraper and a mirror in your mouth, so it had better be a concise statement. I admit, whenever anyone asks me what I'm doing this year, I pause for a few seconds to analyze how much I think they want to hear, and answer accordingly. Most people get the 45 second version, and a few get more details, but the 45 second version is good enough for most.
Occasionally when the tenth person in a row has asked me what I'm doing, I am slightly tempted to get more creative in my answers. Here are some good choices:
"I'm in a Fellows program. They let me in because my name sounds like a boy's."
"Well actually, I joined a cult."
"I can't actually tell you what I do."
I've never been brave enough to try any of these, because the people who ask me what I'm doing are generally nice people, so I just try to give a quick overview of what I do. I have a part time job, I take a couple seminary classes, I work with the youth group, I tutor a 2nd grader once a week, there are 11 other people doing the same thing I am... and yes, I like it. No, I don't know what I'm doing next year.
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"...they let me in because my name sounds like a boy's." ;-D;-D! Yes wench, that gets the double laughing winky. I actually have not gotten the "What are you doing after graduation?" grilling lately, but surely it'll resume in the spring. I still just tell people I don't know what I'm doing, although just once I might tell them I'm coming back to JeffCo to teach just to see their expressions;-). Pr.17:17 Always, wench.
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