Seduce Me Tonight by Wright Kristina

Author:Wright, Kristina [Wright, Kristina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

Learning Curve

I think it took me twenty minutes to get out of the car and make my way up the stairs to the second floor, occasionally squinting at the apartment number I had scribbled on my notebook. I found it, at the end overlooking the rear parking lot, and spent what seemed like another twenty minutes looking at the door in front of me. Three stickers with the names of rock bands I vaguely recognised – though I wasn’t entirely sure they were rock bands – and the mangled cord of a pair of ear buds hanging from the doorknob were the only clues that this was a college kid’s apartment. I decided that this must be the low point of my life.

The problem with returning to college at the age of thirty-five is that everywhere I look on the expansive campus, I see someone who could be my kid. OK, maybe not my kid – but almost. This is not a good thing. I don’t know when or how thirty-five snuck up on me, but it did. Everyone says I don’t look thirty-five, but more importantly, I don’t feel thirty-five. It doesn’t matter, though. I’m thirty-five and that means half of the students on campus are about half my age. It was demoralising to even contemplate, but if the campus were to be quarantined in the event of a zombie apocalypse, everyone would be looking to me for mature, maternal leadership. Damn.

Being a graduate student only helps a little. It’s true that a lot of people in graduate school programmes are older – there are even a few students who are older than me – but with the new accelerated programmes, there are plenty of kids in my classes. Kids who just started drinking legally and who think the 90s are cool because they’re retro. Truth is, I don’t usually mind being the oldest chick in the room. I get along better with people who are younger than me, but it’s hard to keep up with the slang, never mind the technology, and sometimes I feel my age.

It was a computer project that was kicking my ass. I can write a twenty-page paper, no problem, but tell me to do something with computer-based presentation and I’m like a deer in headlights. My brother Charlie is always after me to take a class at the local library, but I’m getting my M.A. in English, not engineering, so I figured I could muddle through with the basics of word-processing. That was until I got an English professor who wanted us to ‘think outside the box’ and create a multimedia presentation for our semester project.

I’d gotten married right out of undergrad, young and idealistic and thinking there would be plenty of time to start a real career. I was in love and content with receptionist jobs – about the only thing I was good at – until my ex took off five years ago and I realised I had essentially been making the same amount of money for eight years while he’d worked his way up the corporate ladder.

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