Chapter 1575 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep113

• I went to the venerable Dean, showed him the work and asked him to start some paperwork he promised for Nancy's benefit. He replied that he had faith in me, so the life-changing papers I wanted him to draft were already working their way around Hightower Hall collecting signatures in the big fancy offices. Curtis had signed on so it would happen. It was great news.
• We had to make a few tweaks to the paper to make it publication quality, but I sent Nancy a note to say she did a great job. Then I let it distill in my mind for a week, reread it again, polished down a point that was sticking out, then I sent that version to Dryden for a final check. The next day, after his "thumb's up" I sent it in, with CC: to those directly involved.
• The thing Nancy had missed in the earlier proposal was that she listed on the paper as a college faculty member instead of staff. Her promotion was central to my conversation with the venerable Dean. I had been promised one "power exercise" each year and I let them know this was it. The final version of the paper I sent in listed Nancy as college faculty and, just to confirm her importance, it listed her as the presenter at the convention. This time Nancy did not miss that change.