Showing posts with label Ficus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ficus. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Passage II

Still can't figure just what in the conversation made me pass out last week. If the abuse stories got to me, I may be better off. But the last thing said could as easily have had to do with the plant.
"Oh, they'll fire him," Terry Lynn tells William as I walk by, "It takes a while when they do that, but they always get them." She could mean anyone. She dislikes me, but I doubt that makes me unique.

Moneypenney called at work today, and I told her everything was fine, of course. She started off in French, and I felt flattered even though she initially threw me and wound up apologising profusely for her supposed accent. I had to go to Bettina's desk to take the call, but what can I do? I think about her when I visit the ducks.

"Cheers, Bettina; have another ficus."

Once upon a time, Bettina, the Sátanas must have been a real creek, though it must have dried sometimes without the treated water coming out of the pipe -- meandering flat on the flattish sand, a line of trees between the sparser bush.

The story will wait.

If I leave, will they keep Edna on? Maybe I should just give Edna some money and know she's moved out.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ficus in Chief

By her desk, by the door I walk by every day, Bettina has a ficus, the only one in the entire building, as near as I can tell.

She wants to apolgise, wants me to know she's still angry. It gives an interesting expression, but I have no idea what to say.

"Nice ficus."