Not my mother.

Nobody at work.

Because the thing about being in that position is that the first sentence out of anybody’s mouth is going to be well, what did you expect, and after the fourth or fifth time you rehearse that in your head you stop opening your mouth.

Verification arrived on the third of April.

Part Thirty-One: The Itemization

It came from the hospital rather than the agency, which is how it is supposed to work, and it was sixteen pages, and I spent a Saturday with it.

This is the part where being an accountant stopped being a personality trait and became the only thing that mattered, and it is also the part where I want to say very clearly that you do not need to be one.