Un-Fiction

I've decided to blog my days as if I'm a fictional character, and my experiences are imagined by someone. This should help my I-narrator presence in my fiction, I should think. Eventually there will come a time when things will be embellished, perhaps enough to be entirely fictitious, but for now, entirely truthful, just told in an embellished way.

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I walked slowly from the park and ride into suburbia. It was an odd contrast, I thought, to be going from my own Semi-Urban apartment, back to this place. The first time I made this commute, the fast traffic of vehicles as far as the eye could see, was a bit nauseating, and a little scary. But I was past the point of judging, and just let people have their big useless trucks and SUV's, content that my own environmental footprint was close to the minimum.
As I turned the corner to the snakey side road, I looked down at the plants where spit-bugs had built their fizzy homes. An apple core discarded, possibly by me, had become the mecca and food source for hundreds of tiny ants.
It had been a day of quiet, everyday victory. With the ten-page paper that had weighed me down for so long turned in, the school-term was beginning to wind down. The physical exam results in my bag, picked up at the drop-in vocational clinic, would help me get my next job. A couple months ago, I really didn't have the essential paper-writing skills of college, but had just BSed my way through like the half-literate majority. Now I was legit. There could be no going back. And my convenient unemployment which allowed me to study unmolested by the frivolities of work in order to do my studies, would be replaced by good, gainful employment, and then university. I thought of the cherub perpetually spitting out water into the fountain in front of the medical office building I'd just passed, where they do liposuction, and decided that, from here, anything was possible.