Day 6

OCTOBER 25, 2004 BY SUSAN J

Dear Susan,

I’ve taken the drastic step of editing your last post. As your handler, I feel it is my responsibility to do a bit more handling. Part of my job is to prevent you doing things that you will regret.

This compulsion you have to confess various real and imaginary humiliations must be curtailed! The post you had planned to put up on this blog would have done your career harm. Or at the least, it wouldn’t have done it any good. So while you were out for dinner (good for you going to that vegetarian place with the elaborately named health food dishes! In no time at all you might fit into one of my vinyl outfits!) I took the liberty of erasing your last blog entry.

Remember when you told me that story about how you met your friend? How you were rooming together and you, in a fit of pique, wrote a nasty note in capital letters using indelible marker on a plastic juice jug because someone had left it empty in the fridge? And then you found out that it was your friend’s juice jug, and not, as you’d imagined, the communal jug?

Well that last entry would have been like the note on the juice jug. Not a good idea.

You’ll thank me for this later.

Your Friend and Handler, Xena.

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