And in the February she wrote to me, and that letter is two pages, and there is one line in it that I keep.
She writes: You always have to make a point.
Which is the most accurate thing that woman has ever said about me, and she meant it as the insult, and it is the reason I came off a promotion board.
She is right and she is the reason I am like it, and both of those are true and neither one helps.
And the eleven people on that working group, who I have not mentioned and who are the actual reason the five months were as bad as they were.
It is a small group and it had been running since the June and I liked it.
And on the twenty-first of October I was removed from it, and somebody had to be told why, and the way these things work is that about four people get the whole of it and the rest get a gap.