Suddenly, I was in the San Antonio office, at a desk on the opposite side from where I'd worked in real life. I was going through some emails before heading to the other side to say hi to a few other people, especially KK since she hadn't been at our lunch. An Outlook invite came across my screen for a weekly meeting, Noon-6 a.m., to see who could come up with the best appetizer dish. Everyone from my team was on the meeting - including the one person that was instrumental in my no longer working there in real life - and had already proffered what they would make. The invite came from a new admin assistant that had started while I'd been away, so I was going to send her an email asking about the time of the meeting as well as correcting some other spelling error, but then decided that it would be better to go introduce myself to her face-to-face first. I saw that there was a mark on my laptop's mouse pad so I scratched it to try to get it off, but it turned out to be a bug and it got up and flew to the floor. I watched the praying mantis, horrified, as it crawled across the floor, turned to look at its scratched butt and continued walking toward the sliding door on the opposite side of the room. For some reason, I'd thought that when it looked at its butt, it would know that I was the one who'd done it and would come after me, so I was glad when it didn't. I went across the hall to the other office then, and before I could say hi to KK and introduce myself to the new admin assistant, I walked over to my boss's office and he said, "What are you doing here? You need to clean out your desks - both of them. You still don't have a job here." I was shocked at his abrasive tone and surprised - still - that he wouldn't give me a chance to explain or defend myself.

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