Sympathy for the Devil by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2014-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

I overslept the next morning, and hurried into work in a foul mood. My disposition didn’t improve any when I realized that the last article I’d been waiting on still hadn’t been sent to me. Goddamn freelancers. You’d think they’d be a little more professional when their livelihood depended on turning in quality work on time. Most of them were, really, but we had a couple of bad apples we nevertheless kept hiring because they were good enough that we had to overlook their chronic lateness.

After I’d cleared off my desk, I started roaming around the Internet, visiting the Fug Girls site, checking to see if a couple of items I’d spotted on the Victoria’s Secret website had been put on sale yet. It had been a few days since I’d logged into my blog, so I figured adding another private entry might be a good way to kill some time until the next piece of work came along. That was the problem with getting a magazine out — it was definitely a case of hurry up and wait. The second the freelancer’s article came in, I’d have to massage it and then rush it over to the art department so it could get laid out, but until then I didn’t have much to do.

But after I’d logged in, I found myself staring at the blank field where I’d planned to write about the breakup with Danny, and maybe Gina’s breakup, and realized I didn’t feel like writing about that at all. I didn’t want to write about relationships ending, not with things just beginning with Luke, all shiny and fresh and new.

Because I was restless, and because I couldn’t think of anything better to do, I started noodling with the layout of my blog. I chose another theme, then changed the background color and the font. That didn’t take me very long, though, so I started roaming through the other menus to look at all the options I hadn’t really investigated previously. Usually I’m a cut-to-the-chase sort of person when it comes to that sort of thing — I just want to get the account set up as quickly as possible so I can get things moving. But since I was trying to waste time anyway, I went into the account settings and clicked on the “manage logins” option. I didn’t even know what it really was for.

Basically, it showed a list of my previous logins, along with the IP address and the time stamp. It took me a minute to figure things out, because it was set up for Greenwich Mean Time, not local time. However, I hadn’t accessed my blog since Monday night, and the list of logins showed that, according to the account manager at the site, I’d logged in just the day before. What the hell?

I was very careful with my passwords. I didn’t give them out to anybody, and I had a group of about six I rotated amongst my various online accounts. And

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