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Meanwhile Patty is busy squawking in uess theyon his fiancée But don’t worry, they call you the ‘unidentified woure it out But it’s obviously an amateur shot, and your head is in shadows Still, when Tania sees it--"

"I don’t really want to talk about this right now," I interrupt, feeling queasy

"Don’t want to?" Patty sounds surprised "Or can’t?"

"Uotcha Lunch?"

"Okay"

"You are such a dope" But Patty is chuckling "I’ll swing by around noon Haven’t seen Magda in a while Can’t wait to hear what SHE has to say about this"

Neither can I

I hang up Sarah coer questions about--what else? Jordan All I want to do is curl up into a ball and cry Why? WHY? WHY had I been so WEAK?

But since you can’t cry at ithout seventy people co? Don’t cry It’ll be okay," I pull out a bunch of vendingthe to look super busy and responsible

It isn’t like Rachel doesn’t have plenty to do herself She found out earlier in the week that she’d been nominated for a Pansy Pansys are these ives out to staff and ad above and beyond the line of duty For instance, Pete has one for rairl’s door dohen she barricaded herself behind it and turned on the gas in her oven He coda has one, too, because--weird as she is, with the --the kids, for the most part, just adore her She makes theard of all caister with a stuffed Santa, a rave;che, a menorah, and Kwanzaa candles

I personally think it’s nice that Rachel got nominated She’s dealt with a lot since she started here at Fischer Hall, including two student deaths in teeks She’s had to notify two sets of parents that their kid is dead, pack up two sets of belongings (well, okay, I did that, both tianize two memorial services The woman deserves a pansy-shaped medal, at the very least

Anyway, because of her Pansy nomination, Rachel is automatically invited to the Pansy Ball, this black-tie affair held annually on the ground floor of the college library, and she’s all aflutter about it, since the ball is tonight and she keeps insisting she has nothing to wear She says she’s going to have to go hit so suitable

I knohat thisback with the own any of us has ever seen When you’re a size 2, you can just pop into any store and find hundreds of totally stunning options

When I’ to disburseet the on the fact that I hate waiting on line at Banking (which was Justine’s favorite place) and usually send a student worker to do it