Patrick's day her boss throws a big party forall the employees. I've been to a few before and it's a good time. I happened to be working out of town a...t the time. Janie said she wouldn't go without me but I told her to go and have a good time. I was able to get out of work early and made the two hour drive home to surprise my honey at the party. I went to the restaurant where the party was held but it was already over, but the wAiter told me people from the group were going to an after party at. But then, that is something that it would not be a good idea to do early in the morning when no one knew where you may have collapsed at. Maybe I should try out for the cross-country team.More stretching when I got back and then into the shower. Everyone was up and Mom was working on breakfast by the time I got out and dressed. We passed around the funnies, checked the football schedule to see if any of the games looked interesting, (we're not big sports fans) and generally passed a relaxing. "I nodded."Well, now that I know about this, I can try to be extra extra careful notto touch you, even when I feel the urge. We can try the antidote tomorrowwhen Roger comes home. In the meantime, if you want to go to the hospital,you should get changed into some other clothes. Here's a carrot. I'll go tothe living room. Come see me when you're ready."I put on my jeans shorts, and a plain black girls' T-shirt. I decided onthe shorts and short sleeves in case I'd need to climb on walls. There were two pencils identical to his in my pocket. ‘Where are they?’ he asked. I drew a blank. ‘I…I…suppose on my desk…my desk at home…’ ‘How about these?’ he asked, tossing me another set of pictures from the day before coming in with no pencils and leaving with three in my pocket at the end of the day. ‘And these, and these, and these…’ he said as he repeatedly tossed more pictures at me with more and more pencils in my pocket as I left but none as I came in. ‘You have any idea how much.