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MY GUESTBOOK
�Is it time to call Stanley?� Donna asked.
�I think it�s time for Josh to take a vacation before his head explodes all over the OEOB,� I replied.
Donna chuckled bitterly. �We�re ten weeks from taking office, we have no VP, at last count we only have two cabinet positions filled, Kazakhstan is driving the President-Elect crazy, CJ has been riding Josh non-stop about reigning Santos in, and there are still about five thousand jobs that need to be filled by the time we move into the White House. He slept, like, two hours after coming back from California, and I�d be amazed if he even got that much between election night and Leo�s funeral. You know how Josh gets. He thinks it�s his fault that Leo died, that he wouldn�t have had that heart attack if he hadn�t signed on to the ticket. The fact that no one ever made Leo McGarry do anything he didn�t want to hasn�t managed to sink through his thick skull yet. Josh isn�t going to take eight hours to sleep. There is no way he goes on vacation. Especially not now.�
Considering that, I had to agree.
�Not willingly,� I said slowly.
�But�?� Donna prodded.
�But there are other ways,� I said before explaining my ultimatum.
Donna listened, nodding and alternating between mild amusement and gut�wrenching concern. There were a lot of emotions crossing her face in those few minutes but I could understand how she was feeling.
�So your plan is for you to pressure him professionally while I act like every other bitch of a woman he�s ever been attracted to by pushing for what I want using sex as a weapon-slash-bargaining-chip?� Donna asked. I nodded. My plan was actually a lot better than that, more thorough, but that covered the broad strokes pretty well. �First of all, I want you to know that this Sisterhood does not approve of your plan at all.�
�Oh, god, the Sisterhood,� I groaned. Though I had kept in touch with everyone on a regular basis�a phone call ever few months and an e-mail once in a while is regular, right?�I had been a whole continent away from the Sisterhood for the better part of four years. I was going to have to get used to my comings and goings being approved of or vetoed by them again.
�Also I�m not wild about the idea of pushing Josh to the edge when he�s already so obviously running full force at it on his own,� Donna continued, ignoring the fact that I had spoken.
Honestly I wasn�t wild about that part of the plan, either, but I don�t do my best strategizing when I�m desperate and worried. If I want a really good plan I need to be angry, and unfortunately I have no one to direct my anger at because what we�re dealing with is self-destruction.