On a more personal note, Mrs. Lopez, please stop refusing to give senior staff members dessert, even if you feel, as you explained to me last week, that they don’t “deserve it.” Which members of the paper’s staff do or do not deserve dessert is not your decision to make! And I would hate to see you asked to leave the food craft services department over something so silly! I would really miss you—and your chocolate chip cookies!
Damn it.
From the Desk of
Kate Mackenzie
To do:
Laundry!!!!!!!!!
Finish disciplinary warning letter to Ida Lopez.
Pick up prescriptions—Allegra, Imitrex, Levlen.
Get new Almay pressed powder compact.
Find new apartment.
Find new boyfriend.
Get better job.
Get married.
Have successful career.
Have children/grandchildren/big retirement party.
Die in sleep at age 100.
Pick up dry cleaning!!!!!!!!!
Kathleen A. Mackenzie
Personnel Representative, LZ
Human Resources
The New York Journal
216 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-555-6891
kathleen.mackenzie@thenyjournal.com
Sleaterkinneyfan:
What are you doing?
Katydid:
WORKING. Stop IM-ing me, you know the T.O.D. doesn’t like it when we IM during office hours.
Sleaterkinneyfan:
The T.O.D. can bite me. And you are not working. I can see your desk from here. You’re making another one of those To Do lists, aren’t you?
Katydid:
It may look like I’m making a To Do list, but really I am reflecting on the series of failures and bad judgment calls that have made up my life.
Sleaterkinneyfan: