Shade’s Employed!

Shade signs the paperwork to become a Universal Employee.

On July 14, 2017, on the 6th anniversary of Shade’s stroke, and just a month plus after graduation, Shade signed the papers to make him an official Universal employee. Orientation starts next week, and then he’s knee deep in Lard Lad donuts. Actually, he’ll be on restaurant row in The Simpsons land … or island … or whatever creative term they use to name the area.

Here’s a Shade fact: When he was kicking on Aitza’s cervix in the hospital, I said to Aitza, “You better hurry and get him out of there because the Simpsons is coming on at 6:00.” Sometimes I’m a jerk. Just sometimes. Well, Aitza complied and squeezed out a feta-covered Gollum fetus that we called Shade, and after he’d been spanked and shaken and given the rough towel treatment, we were back in the recovery room. Aitza was sipping a Guinness. Daddy was gulping it and holding Shade in his arms, and he grabbed the remote and turned on the TV and low and behold, right there on the screen was The Simpsons opening sequence. And Shade’s crystal eyes gazed upon it. And it was good. (Cue angel song!)

He also climbs trees! What can’t he do?

18+ years later, he’s come full circle. He’ll be a greeter in the Simpson restaurants. (Editor friends, I know I started a sentence, let alone a paragraph, with a numeral. Forgive my blogging.) Shade’s got potential to acquire new skills and meet new friends and learn what he’s capable of. Stay tuned …