Let's take it downtown

All day long I sat in meetings with the Department of Education. My people sat across from theirs, and while the old women haggled I did a lot of trying to seem informed, attentive, and notatious.

I am none of these things.

As I left the meeting, I pulled my hair down and looked through my notes, chuckling at the only legible note in the entire stack:

"Lots of shoulderpads."