Alice was humming while she was picking up groceries to refill her refrigerator. She and Dana had hardly left her apartment in last two days. It was the weekend and they had been celebrating their Anniversary.

However, reality finely set in and Dana had to back to the studio to tape her show, and Alice needed to start on her next article.

Last year Dana might have been able to blow off a day or two of training, but with the studio job, there was no such option.

Alice’s job had change somewhat in the past year. She now had an editor who expected her to report in at least once a day. No more emailing her articles from home, no this editor was no nonsense, and wanted to make sure his journalist were earning their pay.

Even though Alice at first resented the intrusion of her time, she now admitted under the leadership of this new editor, the magazine was being taken a lot more serious, and her own writing had improved one hundred percent.

However, it sure would have been nice thought Alice if it could have been like the old days, when she and Dana could lay around for days and get away with it. Alice laughed at herself as she thought; this must be the price of getting older and more mature. She guessed she and Dana had grown up jobs now.

She looked at her watch and realized she needed to hurry up, so she could get back home, put the grocery up, pick up her laptop, and be at the meeting with her boss by 1:00. She knew she wasn’t really prepared for the meeting, but she figured she could fake it through one meeting, acting like she had a case of writer’s block and not that she had spent the morning cleaning and shopping, so when Dana got to her place tonight, they could resume their getting to know each other again.

Alice was standing in line waiting to be checked out when she saw copies of the magazine she worked for, and noticed her article had made it to the cover.

This was something else that was new for Alice, more and more she was being given assignments that were serious and hard hitting, and her colleagues were starting to think of her as a highly regarded journalist.