I'd left my last job because it sucked up every scrap of energy I had until there was not a shred left, but at the same time, I sensed that hanging around doing nothing forever probably wasn't the answer either.
-- Narrator (The Surveillance Job)

Importance: In a rare moment of expositional flashback, the narrator endeavors to explain her circumstances in the narrative present. She is working a dull and unrewarding job at a surveillance agency. She has taken this job for the reasons provided in the above quotation. Although her tone in this passage is open and forthright, the narrator reveals little about the exact nature of her past. She fails to mention where she formerly worked and why it depleted her physically, emotionally, and psychologically. She purportedly took the surveillance job because she needed to fill her time, yet constantly complains about the boring and unrewarding nature of the work. Therefore, this passage establishes...