Running the House by delegation: the memos, the machine, and whose call it is

texture · STANDING (YDAU); anchors 4 Nov (052) and 11 Nov (120)

• When: STANDING administration through YDAU; the curfew-Discharge beat anchors to the night of 11 Nov
• What: Day to day Pat governs through Staff, and the delegation is explicit. When a neighboring Unit's director demands the House's sign-thieves be found and punished, Pat hands Gately the investigation; she tells him outright that the decision to Discharge after a missed curfew is his call (after-hours Discharges are reported to Pat's answering device down in Milton, for her to hear first thing in the A.M.); she wages the House's running parking war with the Enfield Marine authorities by memo, insisting the complex is state- not city-owned; she requires Staff to preview donated cartridges for suitability before residents see them; her counsel-voice survives in resident memory as brisk recovery-aphorism (thinking people who are walking ahead of you are following you, she has said, is a pretty bad kind of D.T.s). The regime runs on trust and delegated attention — with the structural consequence that its worst nights (event 14) route to a machine.