chipper.

i'm always amazed with women that tend to look good even when they have bronchitis. or pneumonia. or cancer. i am perfectly healthy and haven't showered in days*.

in the office this morning there was a woman who had lower left lobe pneumonia and was perfectly groomed. her cough was so horrendous i could feel it within my own chest walls. her phlegm was blood-tinged she told me. yet here she was at ten minutes past eight. dressed in a power suit. and heels. and those stockings with the line that follows the calf, perfectly aligned. i've only ever tried to wear those kind of stockings once. if my memory serves me correctly i believe it ended in me writhing on the floor and shouting profanities. the stockings all askew. i started to imagine what her job might be. perhaps she was some highly important executive and had to run a board meeting at nine AM. or one of those perfume squirting ladies at the bay. or maybe she had an audition... ??? maybe!!!?? she was a madam! mnmnmmm. suffice it to say she was doing all of this with pneumonia.

i need to believe that she takes some form of stimulant. other than coffee. to be so together, and with-it, and chip, chip, chip her so early in the morning.




Friday.


* not factual. ;) stinky, stinky girl!!