Her mind drifted back to the first time she’d met Denise Heikkanen... 8 years agoHannah Sullivan sat in one of her classes at the Air Force NCO acad...my listening to one of her instructors’ drone on about critical thinking and applying it when you’re leading your troops. She had made the promotion list for Master Sergeant and was trying to get all the schooling she needed out of the way so there’d be no delay in her getting promoted when her date of rank came up. She was the only woman in the. He heard her pause. Maybe even today.“Starting next week, I don’t want to see any” her voice began to rise “of you EVER hanging out in front of the door like that again. If you get here before the bell rings, get your butts inside and sit down!”“Where in the rules does it say we have to?” a familiar voice asked.“This is my classroom, and I set the rules unless they directly contradict those of the school. And in this case, my rules are exactly in line with those.” She paused. “I want to make. You and I can’t support all our customers and still get other work done.”“Another CS grad?” she asked.“Not necessarily,” I said. “Just someone smart who can learn our software and do phone support. Having someone to answer the phones full-time will be a big help just by itself. A receptionist is an extravagance for us at this point.”Julia put in a call to Jamie and I went to find Elyse to talk to her about working up a salary for a support person and making sure that it would fit into the. ”“Yeah sure, no problem.” I took the bottle from her and kneeled down behind her. I popped open the cap and squeezed some creamy white goo all over my hand. “Uh - I might have squeezed too much.”“Oh don’t worry! I have plenty more back at my camp.”“Oh, okay. Are you here with your family?”“Yeah, are you here with yours?”“Yeah. I’m here with my parents and my older brother and his girlfriend.”“Awh, that’s so nice,” she said, cutely. I started applying the lotion to her back after rubbing it in.