R. A. Allen — The Monarch Review

Elmwood – R. A. Allen

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 14:28 — 0 Comments

After I attained my BA in Political Science (with its emphasis on International Studies), a graduate’s egotism lead me, naively, to assume some government agency would rush forward with the offer of a Foreign Service posting. When none did, there followed a decade of drift. I worked in a bar and lived in the “tail section” of a subdivided airplane bungalow in grittily chic Midtown. I told myself and other disinterested listeners about my plans for graduate studies. Settling into a self-indulgent lifestyle, I was content to play volleyball and Frisbee in the park, get high with my similarly ambition-deferred […]