MY CALLING IT A CALLING WAS PREMATURE -- by Steve Nadis
In my last post ("My New Calling"), I carried on rather shamelessly about my newly-discovered talent as a caption writer. In my deluded state, I assumed I was going to win the first New Yorker caption contest I had ever entered. But today I learned that was not to be. Not only did I not win the competition outright, I was not even one of the honorable mentions (i.e., "also rans"). Well, you can say there's always next week in the caption-writing game. And generally speaking that's true. Still I had a comeuppance coming to me, and come to me it did. In the meantime, I'm casting about for a new calling. Perhaps blindfolded Rubik Cube-solving will turn out to be "the next big thing" for me.
