In bed three days reading Sylvia Plath; the possible sideways self-harm comment

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, ~2300h

• When: 11 Nov YDAU, ~2300h, the 5-Woman room, during Gately's rounds
• What: Kate has claimed to be too sick for AA and has been in bed "more or less steadily for three days, reading somebody called Sylvia Plate." When Gately buzzes and checks the women's floor, she has "made a possible sideways comment about hurting herself" (n.245), forcing him to call Pat (unreachable), then the House Manager, to interpret the verbatim comment against her Suicide Contract — the House keeps "baroque procedures" for ideation ever since a resident hanged herself from a basement pipe.