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I wish I were better at:
- Singing.
- Cooking and baking fancy, restaurant-quality food. I’m decent at throwing together a regular meal or dessert, but I’d love to amaze someone someday.
- Making a great first impression. (I have a bit of social anxiety).
- Keeping conversations going with people I don’t know.
- Navigating unfamiliar areas. My sense of direction isn’t the best if I don’t have familiar streets or landmarks to guide me.
- How to repair appliances, vehicles, furniture, toilets, etc. when they stop working.
- Knowing when people are flirting with me.*
*I generally mistake flirtation for platonic friendliness. Thank goodness I fell in love with someone who was completely straightforward about his romantic interest in me. That was exactly the communication style I needed.
I could have easily made this list twice as long. What a great topic! Please note that the final opening line references the death of a child.
4. “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”
9. “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
This is one of those topics I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.