I haven’t had a day off since… I’m not sure, exactly. Today turned out to be one! But only just.

The schedule at the PO didn’t have my name on it, I finished the second of my latest articles last night, and I had no church related obligations today, so I was looking forward to a day to start working on my only resolution.

I was not so deep into a book called Disturbances in the Field when my cell phone rang. It was almost noon and only now was the government calling? I let it go to voice mail. Then the house phone rang and again I let voicemail get it.

Resolving to neglect those messages, I kept on reading until I came to the end of a chapter and needed a bathroom break. I checked the voicemails when I got back to my desk. The supervisor left a message in each mailbox saying only that she wanted me to call back.

“Harrumph!” I said and thought to myself, “I’m not calling back!” as I picked up the phone and called back.

“Nevermind,” she said. Did I mention I was still in my pajamas at this time?

What happened was that the carrier on R5, Jim Regular, called and said he had become sick while on the route. As opposed to me who is just sick of the route. He wanted to know if I could be called in to take over.

The supervisor performed a miraculous healing over the phone. She did this by telling him that if I were to be called in, I would get paid for the full day of work on R5 and that he would lose a sick day.

So I’m still sitting at home, though no longer in my pajamas. And as soon as I finish typing this post, I plan to re-engage the words of Lynne Sharon Schwartz.