Meaningless Changes


Kasey


"You're a good deputy, Sam, even if you always get stuck with meaningless
assignments that everyone else feels is below them and even if we still don't
usually let you go to meetings by yourself…you're still a good deputy."

Okay, so that's not what Toby said, but he said the very first part. And,
believe it or not, it's the first time I can ever remember him complimenting
me. Usually it's just "Use more verbs!" or "Y'know, punctuation would be
nice…"

He's acting really weird all of a sudden. Just recently. I mean, this thing
with the quote. Right after he found out about the MS - I didn't know about
the background at the time but now I do - was when there was the leak about
the School Vouchers and he made CJ interview everyone in the damn White
House, now he goes in there and says "We're a team, you don't want on the
team then leave"? Then he comes out of the meeting and says "You're a good
deputy"?

What the hell is going on around here?

Everyone's acting really weird and it's startin' to freak me out.

Like Leo…he was in that meeting about getting rid of genocide earlier today
and now he's just sort of…wandering the halls looking like he just found out
he was the one who killed Josh's father or something.

I just use that example 'cause I know from Mallory that Leo's family is some
German despite being mostly Irish and I know that Josh's grandfather was in
Birkenau so it's…Some sort of example, I guess, not a very good one.

Wonder if there's any good examples to explain the look on his face using one
of the useless facts I know about the penny.

And then there's Donna, looking like her world is coming to an end, like the
boy she likes just caught her changing before gym class or something, even
though there's nothing they could've asked her that would be so bad 'cause it
was only background stuff and she didn't know until just after I did about
the MS and the only thing they could ask her about was the boxes.

Something's goin' on around here, only I don't know what.

Meanwhile, I'm supposed to come up with a good reason to get rid of the penny
and that's all fine and good except I can't come UP with any GOOD reasons,
all I can come up with are reasons like "Because it's really stupid."

Why shouldn't we get rid of the penny right now?

Because there are enough things changing all of a sudden and going strangely
that we don't need to add one more meaningless change to the pile.

How's that for a reason?


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