"so what do you do for a living?"

attended this book launch in san agustin monastery early tonight. as usual, fr. jun invited me since he knew that i don't have much things to do on a friday. but i never thought that it was gonna be that extravagant and kinda formal. there i was wearing cargo pants, shirt, and sandals. and i was in a room with people like priests, architects, engineers, academe people and a whole bunch of other professionals. and then it suddenly dawned on me that i still feel like this kid without having thought deeply that i'm already one like them (oh well... not quite..) but at least, it can be put that way. stuff like chatting about each others' jobs while lining up for the buffet table is kinda new to me. and questions like: "so, what do you for a living?" hit me. i mean, i only heard that on tv shows before and now... people ask me that in front of my face. owel. my usual replies would always be: "i'm a therapist." and they would (of course) follow up with a "which one?". "...occupational therapist". good for me, about 70% wouldn't care to know what really that is. well, they're professionals so they might have heard and known about that already. and one more thing. i really can't imagine myself wearing formal or at least semi-formal clothes. i mean, i'm so used to trasher shirts and sneakers or sandals that i feel like a complete mess when the occasion calls for a formal thing. haay... talk about transitions... changes...