TBAY: Starting Fresh

[Jen Reese]

Jen bangs open the door of the catalogue office and quickly spies 
Ginger lounging on a heating pad in the corner, the scent of Bengay 
lingering in the air. Even with her bad back, Ginger is the office 
coding goddess, pounding out 100's of posts weekly on her trusty 
laptop. 

The office is unusually quiet of late. The whiskery codger at the 
top of the stairs seems to have a permanent sticking charm on his 
door, and Ms. Havisham continues to use the cleverest of spells 
attempting to remove it. Until then, the rest of the office invented 
a game, "Throw the Gnome," seeing who can come closest to a target 
stuck on the door. Resounding bangs rattle the catalogue office 
daily, but the bear inside is impervious to the office antics, and 
continues to snore quite loudly and grunt at the interference. 

Most unfortunately, the open bar is locked behind the permanent 
sticking charm as well, sending the crew out searching for happy 
hour instead of dutifully coding the thousands of posts waiting in 
queue. Ms. Havisham has taken to grumbling behind her office door 
and the staff suspects she's set up her own little office happy hour 
or at the very least takes a shot of whiskey in her morning coffee. 
Her whip sits limply by her side, but still within arm's reach.

Jen proceeds to her cupboard a bit guiltily, tiptoeing past Ms. 
Havisham's door lest she be the one to set the whip cracking. What 
with one thing or another and the end of school looming ahead, she's 
let her reviewing and coding slide into the abyss of 'will get to 
this later' and now the In-box looks slightly lopsided from the 
weight of several weeks of work.

*Sigh* The door to her dark cupboard creeks open and Jen settles 
into her dimly lit, though comfy space. She takes a batch of codes 
and gets back to work.......