This is a high risk game.
The owner gave the key to our auxillary office to a new
writer, the writer then asked me for the code to my computer.
I rigged the computer yesterday just to see if anyone would
notice and report it to the owner.
I promptly got a call from the owner when someone did.
The owner has been doing odd things in regard to me since
last summer when he checked my computers at both offices to see what kind of things,
I had in regard to her (our former writer and now PR gal for the Virgin Mayor).
The whole thing has a lot more to do with the telephones
than with the computers, although some glitch has made it impossible to use the
phones unless the computers are on – something nobody seemed to take heed to
until now.
The owner is getting more and more suspicious of what I do,
and I can’t tell if it has to do with the job and politics or his supposedly
still seeing our poet friend.
All this comes ahead of the owner’s annual trip to Michigan
to see his inlaws.
I can only imagine what might be going on in his head with
our poet friend here and inaccessible to him.
How much texting will he do with her just to keep tabs on
her, she is reassuring him or protesting to him or whatever else she needs to
do to keep him in line.
All this is my imagination going haywire, and more than a
little jealous of the owner if any of it is remotely true.
Just what she has planned – if anything – remains a mystery.
But all of this comes at a particularly painful time since town
hall is overshadowed by the upcoming trial, and the main question is whether or
not the Virgin Mayor will give up his son in order to stay out of jail himself.
If he survives, he might well become even more powerful, and
she can ride his coattails.
If he doesn’t survive, she might well end up back where she
started: jobless.
This comes at a particularly painful time for her, a broken
romance, and a report of cancer. I feel sorry for her, but I think she wouldn’t
believe that if I told her.
She seems to have stopped posting poems, possibly someone
asked her to stop. More likely her life has become so chaotic, she doesn’t have
time or energy – or perhaps even, she hasn’t anything to say.
This has made me cease checking, seeing it as just a waste
of time.
But then, my web check shows that she hasn’t been checking
my blog either. Neither has the owner.
If I was the owner in this situation, I would be scared of
losing her.
I also think he would like nothing better than to get rid of
me – possibly to please her. Who knows?
He really needs evidence to use against me and my challenge
is to keep from giving it to him. Don’t provoke him, and if she is using him,
don’t provoke her either.
But I’m resigned anyway, believing what whatever happens
happens, and I can’t stop it.
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