Here’s The Mutiny I Promised You
What a splenetic sunrise of synchronicity.
It’s been many moons since I’ve been in a text conversation in the early morning hours. Then, it was with a very special person with whom I was, more often than not, continuing a conversation from earlier that night and I didn’t mind in the least. Today, when I received a text from an unknown source at 6:10am, my first reaction was along the lines of “Who the **** is texting me at this hour?” Context is a fickle friend. Upon reading the message, “We have an opening. Contact [name withheld]. He requested your resume”, I was immediately shocked from irked to piqued by this anonymous texter. Truth be told, for whatever as yet unknown reason, I was pulled from my sleep at 5:45am and I was more annoyed at that fact than I was at the text/texter. As it turns out, the message came from a friend in Illinois with whom I’d been discussing job opportunities last Friday night. He apologized if he’d awakened me and forwarded the job information, so I’m definitely more appreciative than angry. Thanks Sean!
The universe clearly wanted me awake as it infused my subconscious with the susurrus of “Here’s the mutiny I promised you.” Following the timeline…
5:45am – awakened after a few hours of sleep
6:10am – received unexpected job opportunity text
6:20am – mystery solved, first attempt to return to slumberland
6:30am – watch alarm goes off and, for the first time in ages, I actually hear it and wonder why I never disabled it
6:31am – grumble, roll over, second attempt to return to slumberland
6:40am – realize the futility of attempting to return to slumberland as my brain has hit overdrive processing last night’s dream involving Jeni, her mom, and the autographed books I gave her for Christmas
6:43am – receive text from the author of aforementioned books who’s finally able to meet me for lunch to discuss my creative writing endeavors in Morpheus’ Gift (yes, there’s still more to come)
Okay, universe, you win, I’m up. I’m up.
For those who don’t recognize the title, it’s a lyric from The New Pornographers‘ 2007 release Challengers. Again, for no apparent reason other than the simple fact that I haven’t listened to it in awhile, I recently dropped this disc into a playlist and have had it on repeat. I enjoyed it back when I received it, but it has grown on me even more lately and I definitely recommend picking it up if you don’t already have it.