“Hey, boss, you have a minute?”
“One sec, but come on in.”
I slipped in to the office, quietly closing the door behind me. Jenny glared at the screen, typed out something with a definite air of finality, and clicked send before spinning around with an exasperated look.
“That useless director was ‘reminding’ me, again, to finish that process eval. I ‘reminded’ him, *again*, that we finished the process eval three months ago and sent it to him for review. Ugh. Anyway, what’s up?”
I’d been thinking about this moment for a while, but it was different having her face *there*, not just imagined.
“Well, Jens, if you check our team folder, you’ll find something new.”
She raised an eyebrow, waiting for more, but I just grinned and spread my hands. She snorted and spinned back to her computer. “Alright, Mikey, we’ll play it your way. Let’s go see what this special-*whAT?*”
It was everything I hoped for. The little half-screech, the slack-jawed expression, the scooch forward to stare closer as if she couldn’t believe her eyes.
“Oh my god, Mike, you *did it?!?”*
I kept grinning, and gave a flamboyant bow from my seat.