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TAILS! This week’s theme is Tell about your job. This is my third week!

I currently have a temp job as a receptionist for a really awesome company. The work is fun, the coworkers are the sweetest I’ve encountered, and I’ve been paid a lot less for WAY worse work (see: wiping excrement from miniature bottoms).

While I don’t really feel it would be appropriate for me to go into the details, I will tell you that right now I am working on a project (Columbine) that is by far the most emotionally taxing thing I have ever done. I am a terribly empathetic person and that doesn’t make it any easier. As I go through this articles, I am face-to-face with the victims, the killers, the families. It is heartbreaking. The first day I started working on it, I can’t tell you how many times I had to stop and compose myself. It is powerful. I cannot wait for this film to be released.

In the future I will probably write more about the impact that the Columbine massacre had on me — the impact I didn’t realize it had until nearly 10 years later. Now that I am able to look back and see the child that I was then, the path that I was on, the way I dealt with emotions…it puts a different spin on things. There are things we’ll never understand, but my, what clarity the years bring.