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A Life in the Day of Nixdown Nixon - The Woody Back to School Unit

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35<strong>of</strong> be<strong>in</strong>g cynical but actually I just th<strong>in</strong>k that I have an<strong>in</strong>nately suspicious nature and I have sometimessuspected that Debs eng<strong>in</strong>eers many <strong>of</strong> her morecalami<strong>to</strong>us situations for her own personal selfaggrandizement.Deborah naturally denies any suchaccusations and our disagreements have occasionallycaused significant rifts <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> lute.At <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> last year when Mr Humphrieswas seek<strong>in</strong>g a successor <strong>to</strong> Lady Vic<strong>to</strong>ria he lobbiedJojo and I <strong>to</strong> fulfill <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> Red-shirt. For differentreasons we both turned down <strong>the</strong> position and weboth expressed <strong>the</strong> op<strong>in</strong>ion that despite Deborah’s fallfrom grace with Ms Law<strong>to</strong>n that we just assumed thatwould be forgotten and she would be <strong>the</strong> naturalcandidate. After all she is an unreasonably (andperhaps even unnaturally) gifted <strong>in</strong>dividual and it isactually her abundance <strong>of</strong> fatal flaws that make herso attractive and sometimes even endear<strong>in</strong>g.However, <strong>The</strong> Grand Master expla<strong>in</strong>ed that he fearedthat she would just be <strong>to</strong>o high ma<strong>in</strong>tenance and Ihave <strong>to</strong> say that I agreed with him. Eventually LadyVix was persuaded <strong>to</strong> stay on for a second term eventhough she has <strong>of</strong>ficially f<strong>in</strong>ished her sentence.Despite <strong>the</strong> Grand Masters concerns Vic<strong>to</strong>rialobbied for Debs <strong>to</strong> firstly be promoted <strong>to</strong> Capta<strong>in</strong> <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Red House and <strong>the</strong>n subsequently as her Deputy.I am forced <strong>to</strong> admit that Debs has proved mewrong and has done a smash<strong>in</strong>g job <strong>in</strong> both roles, soI am more than happy <strong>to</strong> endorse her when <strong>the</strong> timecomes. I just wish that she would s<strong>to</strong>p babbl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> myear about heart-rates and breath<strong>in</strong>g patterns.

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