The bees are returning to the Hive??
Personally, I think that’s a Big Mistake, and I’m gonna keep my Mouthparts Mask on and keep keeping my Distance until I know, for sure, this Contagion is gone.
Still, I just got off VideoChats with my Girlfriend, ButterCup (who’s been staying with her Sister, Tweak), and my Illegitimate Nephew, Kevin. Both of them say they’re making plans to come back home to the Hive in the next, few days. I dunno what they’ll find there, excepting for a Hive that probably needs a good cleaning, not to mention a new Queen (the previous Queen left with a Swarm of her Loyal Followers, but the buzz is that most of them got really sick and died, and that they got swept up by a Night Janitor at the Motel they’d moved into). That’s truly tragic, isn’t it?
But worse than that, I actually got a call from my Editor yesterday. He told me I had to bee in his Office first thing this morning, so I went there, but I made sure I kept my Distance and I kept my Mask on - and I’m highly glad I did, beecause he was standing a hell of a lot closer to me than the Required 15.72”. I mean, who the hell knows where my Editor has been, ya’ know?
So I walked in and he said, “Bee, it has come to my Attention that our Publication has been totally Absent during this Very Difficult Time.”
“I noticed that,” I told him, beecause I’d noticed I hadn’t gotten a new Issue of the “Bee Times Gazette Journal Record…and Online News” in a very long time.
“I’m glad you did notice,” he said, “beecause I’m putting YOU on Notice that all that is about to change - and you are going to start carrying your Weight around here to make that happen. There is a Production Meeting scheduled for this Friday. You will bee there - or Else.”
Then he told me to get the hell out of his Office, so I did that.
Of course, he never told me HOW I’m supposed to carry my Weight around here. I’m mean seriously now - I need Specifics. Am I supposed to bring back my Insightful, Highly Entertaining Movie Reviews? Does he want me to start making my Brilliant and Informatively Enlightening Observations again? Has he suddenly recognised the crucial need for my “Dear Georgie” Advice Column to return? I suppose he’ll tell me what the hell it is he’s expecting me to Do at the Production Meeting on Friday. (I just hope everybody there wears a MouthPart Mask, ya’ know what I mean? It’s like Great Grandma Gee Gee says, “You can’t bee too careful, Dear.”)
Luckily, that gives me today, tomorrow, and the next day to finish watching the Newly-Released Re-Runs of my favourite Action-Adventure-Law-and-Order Crime Documentary, “Hive Patrol”.
So I’m gonna go do that.
Let’s all bee highly careful out there!
