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Every time

He looks my way

I say

Gimme some of that

Ooh La La La La

"Ooh La La La"

Performed by Heather Wells

Composed by Valdez/Caputo

Froda and Pete in on the whole thing during our lunch break I tell the the part about Cooper--

But not that I’ Which of course

Pete’s only response is to scoop up a forkful of chili and eye it dubiously

"Are there carrots in this? You know I hate carrots"

"Pete, didn’t you hear me? I said I think--"

"I heard you," Pete interrupts

"Oh Well, don’t you think--"

"No"

"But you didn’t even--"

"Heather," Pete says, carefully placing the offending carrot on the side of his plate "I think you been watching way too much Law and Order: Special Victida has to say about it "But let’s face it Everyone knows you’re a little bit"--she twirls a finger around one side of her head--"cuckoo You knohat I mean?"

I cannot believe a wo the Statue of Liberty air-brushed on her fingernails is calling irls with no history of an interest in elevator surfing dying fros "You want your pickle?"

"You guys, I’irls down the shafts I irls were late bloomers They never had boyfriends before Then, suddenly, a week before they died, they both got boyfriends--"

"Maybe," Magda suggests, "they did it because after saving theht reat after all"

All conversation ceases after that, because Pete’s choking on his Snapple

The rest of the day is a blur Because the two deaths occur so close together in the semester, we’re bombarded by the press, mostly the Post and the News, but a Times reporter calls as well

Then there’s thethem know that a counselor will be on hand twenty-four hours a day this weekend to help therief This means I have to make seven hundred photocopies, then talk the student worker into stuffing the memos into three hundred mailboxes, two for each double room, and three for the triples

At first Tina, the desk worker, outright refuses Justine, it see them next to each set of elevators

But Rachel wants each resident to receive his or her own copy I have to tell Tina that I don’t care how Justine had done things, that this is hoant things done To which Tina actually replies, dramatically, "Nobody cares about what happened to Justine! She was the best boss in the world, and they fired her for no good reason! I saw her crying the day she found out! I kno York College is so unfair!"

I want to point out that Justine was probably crying tears of relief that she’d only been fired and not prosecuted for what she’d done