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Take enough steps

And someday

Someday you’ll be hoht in the hospital--on account of all lass shards eht too many, if you ask me Do you knohat their idea of dessert is in the hospital? Yeah, that’d be Jell-O With fruit in it Not even mini marshmallows Everyone knows Jell-O is a salad, not dessert

Plus they don’t even have bathtubs in the hospital If you want to get clean, it’s a shower or sponge bath only

Whatever I try to use my time there wisely My time in the hospital, I mean I sneak offnicely fro the explosion He’s supposed to be back at work next month, no worse for the wear

I also stop by Jordan’s room while I’m there In the hospital, I mean

He’s plenty embarrassed to see ht hostile If I didn’t know better, I’d think she was feeling threatened by

But I don’t knohy she would be Her latest single, "Slut," hit number ten on Total Request Live the other day

I wish them well, anyway I tell the, either

I only have to spend one night in the hospital, but I get teeks off--with pay--frouess that’s how they reward you at New York College if you happen to bust your boss for a double homicide Even if you haven’t accrued that many sick days, or whatever

By the tiet cold out The leaves on the trees in Washington Square Park are changing, turning shades of red and gold that pale in comparison with the colors the freshmen in Fischer Hall have dyed their hair in preparation for Parents’ Day

Seriously It’s like working in a clown college, or soed in other ways as well since I’ve been gone For one thing, with Rachel in jail awaiting trial, I’ a new boss I don’t knoho yet They’re still interviewing people

But Dr Jessup is giving ht be nice to work for a reat and all But I could do with a break frorees She and all the student workers are a lot nicer to me now that, you know, I riskedtheir fellow residents I hardly ever hear about Justine anymore Except for the other day, when Tina turned to me and said, "You know, Justine used to never wear jeans to work like you do She told h to fit her I sort of always hated her for that"

Even Gavin is finally listening toHe’s taken up exploring the city’s sewers instead

I figure he’ll be giving that up soon enough, too, though I uy on his floor

Oh, and the Allingtonsnext door--the one Donatello or whichever teenage mutant ninja turtle it was juh away that Mrs Allington feels that she and the birds will bein a building that they don’t have to share with seven hundred undergraduates and a residence hall staff

Those undergraduates weren’t sorry to see the Allingtons go, but the same can’t be said about their son Chris’s turned into soained from Rachel’s obsession with hie for his plan to open his own nightclub in SoHo Law school, apparently, had been his father’s drea in from the Lifetime Channel and Playboy, Chris has broken free fro his own devices

I’et him arrested fairly soon