(This is the point in my journal I intended to stop posting when I started this several years ago. I'm not certain how much more I'll post even though I have material going into 2015. )
She tried the same trick this time (the naming of a school after the U.S. Senator) as she pulled last time (the naming of the school after the congressman).
At the Congressman’s event, the cops on duty told me that I lacked updated press credentials – something only she could have told him.
I told the cop I had credentials; he escorted me out of the building anyway, telling me that nobody without “full” press credentials would be allowed to cover the event – no doubt quoting what she said to him.
Fortunately, the press person for the congressman was there and told the cop that all press with credentials or not to be let in, and then looked at our poet and said, “Get it?”
This time, ahead of tomorrow’s event, I spoke to the Virgin Mayor about access. He had invited me personally.
He assured me I would be allowed in, and arranged for someone on his staff to notify me ahead of the event but when one of my other contacts in his administration called me early to ask if the mayor’s people had gotten back to me, he was shocked when I told him no. I had not even received the press release all the other members of media had.
My contacted texted our poet’s boss to send it, and after I texted her boss myself twice, I eventually received it, learning definitively at that point that our poet was the person who was supposed to have sent it in the first place.
All this suggests a number of things. First, she continues to dislike or -- as she put it on leaving our office about not hating all men only some – hates me.
It also raises questions about her relationship with her boss – which I’ve only speculated on in the past (especially regards to the Hometown election).
Had she trickled up from RR to her PR boss after RR proved to be a dead end?
Or was her boss the mysterious man she had fallen for early this year? (something I doubt, but this interchange over the school naming seems to further connect the two, and perhaps ties her to that disastrous Hometown election, and her role as a possible spy.
She, her boss, and the other members of the inner circle are tied to the Virgin Mayor’s power -- which might have changed if she, A, and others had managed to get R elected Hometown mayor. Since they could not, they are back to where they started, clinging to the Virgin Mayor’s shirttails, or perhaps in some ways controlling him.
All this scares me a little because I had assumed time had diminished her rage at me and that I was no longer on her radar, when these two incidents at the schools suggest otherwise.
For all my wishful thinking, I’m clearly the central bad guy in her universe, the one who perhaps “shot her in the back” or has stood between her and what she hoped to achieve. She like our former temporary boss might even still believe I am the source for all the Hometown blogger has been posting about what went on and may still be going on in her office in connection with her.
Her position as a possible replacement for her boss in the Virgin Mayor’s town or some new position in Hometown seemed to have compromised by events that took place like June, as well as the distrust the congressman, the Small Man and their staff have of her.
Exposed as she has been, she is no longer as a valuable commodity as a stealth agent, and gauging from the reception she gave me at this event, she appears to be blaming me.
She is clearly frustrated by all this, and doesn’t feel she has the control she needs.
What new dirty trick she might pull ahead of tomorrow’s ceremony remains unclear.
But the whole thing has soured whatever tender feelings I’ve had for her after having followed her plight with her lover, and created additional (and quite unnecessary) distance, making it clear there will never likely be a chance at reconciliation.
But as The Beatles put it, Tomorrow never knows.
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