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Donna chuckled. �Guys, there are going to be times that you don�t leave the West Wing for a week at a time. You come in early, stay until eleven if you�re lucky, and then you have to be ready to do it all over again the next day.� She paused and then said, �Ronna, before I forget let me impart a few words of feminine fashion wisdom. Low heels are your best friend. You�re going to walk at least twenty miles a day, plus another ten or so that will have to be covered at a run. Invest in low heeled shoes with good ankle support. Especially in the first few months until you get a hang of Pedi-conferencing.�
�Of what?� Ronna asked.
�Pedi-conferencing. Your basic walk and talk, only at West Wing pace. Half of what is done in the White House is done while walking between meetings or whatever. The Free World is run while moving between Point A and Point B. Not so much for the President�s immediate administrative staff, but definitely for anyone working for Chief of Staff or lower,� Donna explained.
�You can�t be serious,� Bram said.
�Start working on your cardio, people. You�ll need to take in a lot of information, share even more, and do it all while speed walking and trying not to known anyone down or anything over,� Donna said. �Look, I�ll make sure that everyone if fully briefed on what life in the West Wing is like before we take office, but for now you guys need to be focused on the Transition. Right now we all have a billion and one things to do. Josh, for example, is going to have to run to get to his meeting with CJ on time,� she said, a not-so-subtle hint for Ronna to get Josh on his way. Donna wasn�t Josh�s assistant anymore and most of the time she didn�t know what his schedule was like, but she remembered Josh mentioning a meeting with CJ about, among other things, Inauguration.
�On it,� Ronna said before hurrying to the President-Elect�s office.
�You sufficiently freaked out yet?� Donna asked Bram.
�The guy Josh is trying to get for DCoS� he�s not as intense as Josh, is he?� Bram asked. He had been offered a position as Assistant Deputy in the Operations section and was starting to wonder if being an Assistant Deputy instead of Personal Aide to the President was worth it.
�He has his moments,� Donna confessed, �but Sam is much calmer. You may want to start memorizing the contents of the Thesaurus, though. He has a tendency to get polysyllabic when he gets into the zone. And make sure you don�t undercut one of his soliloquies�he hates it when people break his flow. Other than that Sam is a great guy to work for and with. Much lower intensity quotient than Josh. Now, if you don�t have anything else to ask, I should really get back to the meeting I�m in.�
�Thanks Donna,� Bram said before hanging up.
Sighing heavily, Bram sank into the nearest chair. "What the hell have we gotten ourselves into?" he muttered before going back to work.
End.