it wasnt that she was unsociable  she explained                               

                                         she was sociable
if she wished
on her own time
 

her manager sitting cross from her in his office trying to rub the crease from his brow with his thumb gave her a pained confused look

Howbout we try this on for size she said

I gave you my pitch

You hired me

For a specific job

I do the workto a level    exceeding your expectations

but my coworkers

feel

Im not sociable

Okay

I confess I have little concern for punching a clock performing for others who have functions Ill assume to provide for our employer who  though absent as they maybe  are happy and arent complaining about my efforts

he nodded though the pained look continued in his eyes as if he were a longing puppy waiting for her to flip him the ribbone she gnawed at at a barbecue in someones greenlawned backyard

not that she would give a dog a bone

or attend a barbecue other than she and her boyfriend had made together to share

he worked she worked

both they often worked late

but neither tolerated office politics to the detriment of their relationship

there was nothing untoward about them

unless perhaps someone dared to accuse them of being selfish of their time together

she pushed her rollered chair back exacting a sharp metre

Then

If there is nothing more Sir

I have work accruing on my desk that others prefer I do because it might tax them

Not that they cant

Just that it taxes them

Thats as much office politics as I play

she was to her feet straightened her skirt extended her hand to shake his without him rising while thanking him for his valuable time

and gone

he wondered how that went

when he had called their meeting

evening,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  17  2. 16

 2257,  Friday,  19  2. 16

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble  Sirocco  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDCXr_-1a8s

Huh

     she sat back from what she had written in her notes holding her pen loosely in her hand

then absently murmured aloud to herself

 

perhaps forgetting that she her patient  was in the examiningroom with her

                                                                                         Huh I dotted my TsWhy would I dot my Ts

quietly so not to rouse her too abruptly from her sudden misty reverie

                                                                         Crossed your Is and dotted your Ts

Excuse me

though not particularly to her

                        rather the voice

 

I said crossed your Is and dotted your Ts

Why would I do that  I wonder

which honestly made her wonder too  the smallest things a physician does also speaks to the larger things they do

  

an unsolicited Ill call you when your lab results are in so we can talk about them and then understanding your labs are completeon the doctors desk and they havent called you yet

                                                                 what does that say about the doctor 

what would I dotted my Ts say

is Huh an oops

is Huh or Oops scarce mental deficiencies and therefore not necessarily translate into mechanical hands-on errors

or

Hmm 

      she hmmed to herself

as the doctor recalled she had a patient beside her gathered her wits awkwardly as if revealing a tell embarrassed by being a human being untethered and come-down from the roost or pedestal they might believe was erected for them

which was ridiculous

                      ridiculous if one recognises a physician is a patients employee

as a patient is also employed 

 

albeit hopefully both significant employees unto themselves and appreciated in kind by their employers

which is the catch in the material the pull or snag  the rub  when either side maybe too full of themselves and believe they are autonomous existing in some rarified atmosphere too heady to be sipped by any breath other than their own

she said to her doctor So what do you make of dotting your Ts

I make that Im not totally involved in this interview as I said I havent been feeling well and taking medication and perhaps perhaps telling my patients not to go into work if they are sick I should pay heed and likewise do as I say

The rules shouldnt be any different for me should they

No

she could have said more

this wasnt the first time her physician hadnt been onboard

though she anted her more slack than others because she was a doctor and all the years she spent and strove to attain her status she respected and thus provided her deference

No

the doctor shifted herself uneasily in her chair

I am sorry I hope that you will accept my apology

I sincerely apologise

Thank you  That means a lot to me

 

Maybe dotting your Ts was simply a matter of crossing your eyes

she crossed her eyes so not to be mistaken

the doctor laughed

often it is a good thing when laughter can be used to cross a bridge or realign a relationship

she bookmarked this moment in her mind and before her physician she also noted it in her calendar

producing it from her purse

remarking casually

                 Got to note it  Its one for the books

 

indelibly imprinted

  hopefully

1400,  Twosday,  16  2. 16

1616,  Friday,  19  2. 16

areacodes an zipcodes zigzag in an out an over an throughout each another

an since hardly anyone actually knows anyones telephone or cellphone numbers

or writes or sends letters anymore

                            the US Mail corrupted an coopted by Current Resident or Addressee

an bit-by-byte subjugated by electronic means 

areacodes

  have been relegated an recycled into products McLuhan thought were hot 
          

                                                                he was informed 202 was DC

214 Dallas an 216 CLeaveland O – HIGH – O

Denver CO 303  305 Miami I maim I cripple I hurt  St Louie MO 314

blue collared the Pits-burgh 412  shiny white collared SanFran 415

602 tryin to beat the heat the refractions risin-off-Phoenix

Nashvilles mash 615

619 San Dieguito and La Jolla people

702 Las Vegas phacetious Lost Wages  704 Charlotte

YUGEston TX 713

he was told Goose Island got Chicagos 312 but NYs 212 an Phillies 215 hadnt been snatched  yet

all minimised into beer

for the sake of argument he tried an 805
                                   smart  he sipped it 
an spat it out  there was no character 
 

no character

no personality

an without either
why would one carry on a relationship
?

he read about 30303  a zipcode

wherein GA had surged 141 per cent in recent years to become Americas fourth-most State to incarcerate its adult population(unfortunately  tho correctly  he read into its words . . . to incarcerate its black adult population) trailing
the big-hitters Nos. One Two an Three  DC  LA  MS

in Atlanta  Grady Hospital  the black children born there 
are unlikely to raise their unfortunate social status


                                                        he put away the magazine
recognising one more time again the entitlement he was born into by having white coloured skin

1649,  Thursday,  18  2. 16
1351,  Friday,  19  2. 16

written while listenin to Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNGg7SVUa-s

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/looking-beyond-black-mecca-and-failure-black-misleadership-class