I walk across tha floor. I can feel eyes on me.

“Hey,” I say.

Savage iz wearing a nice green tie.

“C.N. says they are definitely going to play in the PALM spinoff.”

Tod is staring at the screens.

“Do you know what they are going to do?”

“No idea.”

“What do you think they are going to do?”

“Beats the shit out of me.”

Savage looks at me for a moment.

“Ok, great, thanks.”

Tod iz still staring at the screens. I walk back to my seat, eyes on me again.

I sit down.

* * * *

trdrbear: Need to talk

nderivs: Now?

trdrbear: Now

nderivs: not a good time, can we do IM?

trdrbear is typing…

trdrbear: have u ever cheated?

nderivs: like on a test?

trdrbear: no on a boyfriend

nderivs: no

trdrbear: liar

nderivs: not lying

trdrbear: everybody cheats

nderivs: well not me. U?

trdrbear: no.

nderivs: liar.

nderivs: 🙂

trdrbear is typing…

trdrbear: so why did she do it

nderivs: it was easier

trdrbear: easier than what?

nderivs: easier than talking to u

trdrbear is typing…

trdrbear: am I hard to talk to?

nderivs: of crs not

trdrbear: so then?

nderivs: ppl just always take tha EZ way out

Trdrbear was quiet.

Not sure why I have to be this guy’s amateur fuckin’ psychologist. Jesus H Christ hiz wife cheated on him, big deal. Shit happens. He iz not tha best looking guy in tha world and he iz kind of all over the place and he chews with hiz mouth open, like I said, gross. I don’t know what it iz about guys. Either they want to get laid or psychoanalyzed. It’s no wonder I don’t date.

I actually didn’t want 2 have that conversation at all. I am in no mood. Tod iz pissing me off and I have had about enough of malez right now. I wuld say that I wuld rather work with a room full of girlz but that wuld b absolute chaos 2.

My more immediate problem iz that I have to deal with this spinoff and I am not really sure what I am supposed 2 do. Sure, I know all about how to price options but tha mechanics of buying and selling them iz kind of another story. Boone Dog usually handles tha orders and just haz me send tha emailz and deal with tha back office because girlz are better at getting thingz done apparently. Booner also haz safe handz. Some of these guyz are error machines, buy, sell, whatz tha difference, pissing off traderz left and right, but I have never seen Boone Dog make a mistake. U have to get a lot of thingz straight in ur head 2 trade options. Stock strike call put buy sell. It takes basic human intelligence which not a lot of ppl have.

“Hey, sweet tits,” says Robbie as he walkz by.

I feel my face get red and flushed. This iz really nothing new but for some unknown reason it iz botherin me today. Prob bc of what happened with Tod last night. That sort of changed my outlook on tha human race I think. You look up to somebody, u think u know somebody, and then they turn out to b a turd just like everyone else. Meanwhile CNBC is on and Maria Bartiromo, and they call her tha money honey, and she iz pretty but why why why?