For the first time in her life, Shannon found herself with nothing to do and money in the bank, a misery she’d never experienced before. With no co-workers to prank, no bosses to please, no bearings to make, she felt disconnected from the world, floating like ash belched out of a furnace. Despite her incredibly good fortune—the mortgage payoff! the screenplay! the promise of a job in Las Vegas!—she sank into a deep depression.

