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November 29, 2008:

"Get to work!"

I didn't realize at first that she was speaking to me. I was at my desk, writing a report, and at that moment had been staring into space, thinking about it.

"I am working, " I said, surprised.

"You're staring out the window doing nothing!"

I mimed a writing motion in the air, probably somewhat sarcastically, and she laughed. But, she'd been serious.

You can make all sorts of disparaging remarks about how ambitious people rise to their level of incompetence, about how power corrupts, if you want to call the type of authority she possessed "power". Or even about what a fat clown she was. Ultimately I think the best comment is that small people fail in a multitude of small ways.

A few months later I saw her leave the building after being fired by the new President. Took him less than a week to figure her out. Political, disloyal, tyrannical in a petty way. Incompetent.

She was weeping, but I felt no sorrow for her. Sometimes people deserve the endings they create.