Wonder Woman and Adventures in The Workforce (Part I)

The first day. The first day you enter into a new employment venture can be the most terrifying thing you ever do. Your palms sweat, you forget your lunch, you listen instead of speak. You can be the most wonderful wonder woman of them all, but a first day on the job can take the wind right out of your sails.

I enter the bookseller at 7:30am, on the dot. The Duchess is in a whirlwind. She's got carts of books. She's got clip boards. She got paperwork. She's got a look in her eye that screams: Don't mess! I've got a knife! I realize I've really fallen down the rabbit hole. I'm taken to the back where I have to read the Wonderland Bookseller Bible. I'm greeted by various Wonderlanders. They all seem nice and interesting. All with long hair and almond spectacles. All wear earth tones and big shoes. There are wine-o's, and now I see there are bookies. I can sense a ripple in Wonderland though, a tension that cannot surface on its own.

After the brief Wonderland Bookseller Town Hall Meeting, the Duchess informs me this was a bad day to start. A popular book is making its debut on the market and a Wonderlander's husband didn't make it through the night. I'm a back burner thought. It's no problem though. This wonder woman has had her fair share of sudden tragedy. Sudden tragedy is a startle for the inexperienced, a turn in the wind for ones with insight.

So the day was not as planned. I was given the Wonderland Bookseller Seller's Tutorial booklet, a register, and was left alone to find my own way out of the rabbit hole. I did. I AM a wonder woman, after all. But this wonder woman begins to wonder about herself... Are my powers being used for good, bad, or being lost through the looking glass?

Reflecting, WW.