She knew I was there. She always knew. She was in no hurry to get dressed, probably assuming I was watching. I was never sure at the time. Anyway, she... walked over to her sink mirror and started posing. She was doing those poses pin-up girls used to do where they thrust out their breasts and stood up on their toes the better to emphasize their legs. Of course, Mrs. Jessup, who was French, had beautiful legs. The kind that would make any boy of seventeen moan with pleasure. I continued whacking. Your arms are both broken and casted and we’ve sutured up a number of small cuts. Too soon to tell about your recovery but all looks pretty good.”The doctor was gone as quickly as he’d arrived and I lay piecing together what I’d been told. Then, a hospital nurse began to feed me and it was a messy affair as she good naturedly fed me spoonful by spoonful and I was hungry. Seems I’d been unconscious for three full days and the nurse began to fill me in moeon my condition. Then, sh said,. You are living in some sort of fictional world and need to get your head out of the sand. Now are you going to help me carry some of this ammo?"She delivers a common phrase I recognize, "I would prefer not to."I inform her that I know the source of her quote, "Yeah, I've read Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scribner many times. I can't believe you of all people would fall back to Bartleby's defense just because you've obviously lost the real argument.I continue and tease, "I rest my case: You. Once the systems were fixed, complete backups of the programs were made and stored on a duplicate standby server and discs were made to go in our vault.I took Friday off to help with set up the new training procedures and sites that were going to be used starting Monday. Monday was the first of a double group; 80 instead of the normal forty, made possible by the rooms at the expanded Crash Motel as it was now known.There were two weeks of 80 and then it would be doubled again to 160 as the.
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