Papers lay strewn about Hannah Fox's desk. She was a landscape architect designing a new park, and the project was far behind schedule. She had been in her office for the last several days, eating and sleeping at her desk; a report lay on her floor - stained from her cup-ramen two nights ago. Her body felt like tungsten. She had been listening to music the last few days, but her earbuds had finally capitulated shortly before sunrise, so she had to make do with the ticks of the clock. At times it was like music - she could almost hear the soft piano and the platter of rain in the lofi tracks that kept her sane in the prior days. Other times she would have punched it if she had the energy.
As Hannah's head drooped, she caught sight of the sorry state of her clothes. With a sigh she straightened her short, black pencil skirt and buttoned the white blouse she had opened earlier for the suffocating atmosphere, shifting with discomfort as the sweat that had saturated it clung to her skin. Her brunette hair hung about her shoulders, and she tried to organize it into a disheveled ponytail until she conceded that some of it would simply remain on her face.
She gazed at the report centered on her desk, opened past several pages she did not remember reading, and her eyes meandered to the first paragraph. While her eyes acknowledged the words before her, her mind was ferried along the river of her semi-conscious thoughts, "Brian and Todd got to go home last night, didn't they? That leaves me, Sarah, and Joe I think. Damn, they're too serious! At least Todd would come by and tell me his stupid jokes."
The current pulled her thoughts around a bend, "The decorating man is coming today isn't he? His name was... Mr. Miller. No, Mr. Moore. He was going to finalize what statues will be on display I think." Her fingers picked at the corner of the page and turned it, not realizing she had grabbed two. Her musings continued, "I wonder if I'll see him. Probably not, stuck here all day." A smirk tugged at the corner of her mouth, "Maybe on a bathroom trip?" Her eyes began at the top of the same page for the third time. "I'm stumbling down the hall and, what -" she sardonically chuckled to herself "- he catches me falling asleep as I walk?"