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My neighbor and new assistant has agreed to let me tell you her name, and a
little bit about her. I didn’t ask her if I could do this; she volunteered,
thinking that it didn’t make much sense for me to keep referring to her by her
relationship to me. I try to keep the specifics about other people out of my
posts, and not reveal too many details about them, in order to protect their
privacy, but I can also see how it may feel impersonal and detached. I hope
that no one else is experiencing any such issues. Anyway, Jasmine Soun is 29
years old. She’s from St. Louis, Missouri. After she graduated from St. Louis
University, she decided to leave all of her belongings behind, and just start
driving. She stayed on the road for four hours, and the only reason she
stopped is because she ran out of gas. She had made it to Kansas City by then,
but wasn’t too near a gas station. She had to get out, and walk the rest of
the way to buy a gas can, and fill it up before making her way back to her
car. It was there that she met her future boyfriend when he offered to give
her a ride. He also offered her a job at the gas station, and she didn’t have
any other prospects, so she accepted it. That’s the kind of person she is, a
real go-with-the-flow type. He would later convert her to vegetarianism, which
was what made her have to quit her job before too long. She didn’t like
selling the types of foods to which she had a moral objection. I can very
understand that. Fast-forward about six years, and she’s no longer with that
guy, but they keep in touch. She’s had a number of jobs since then, but just
before I hired her, she was a secretary for the Vice President of
Manufacturing at a computer hardware company that specialized in memory
modules, so she has decent experience, which means that it’s not a cronyistic
hire. Back in my home universe, secretary is a dirty word, filled with
a historical context of misogyny, and an imbalance of power through a gendered
dynamic. People in this world apparently never had that problem, so the word
doesn’t have the same negative connotations. Sure, it’s not like it’s a
coveted position, admired like astronauts, but it’s not shameful either, and
it hasn’t been traditionally dominated by women either. No job really has
been; I find that interesting. And on that note, we better get back to work.
Say goodbye, Jasmine. She says hello.
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