location: city hall

[assistanting]

[Everyone from your city hall's parks and recreation department has some Really Important Thing to do that isn't being in the office right now, leaving former-intern-now-paid-employee April Ludgate to handle all of your ridiculous complaints, questions, and concerns about the parks system in your city.

Joy.

Maybe no one will actually bother her in this entire block of time.]

Three hours, god, hurry up and go faster.

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[quiteliterally]

April Ludgate. [ pointing! ] There you are. Are you taking questions today? How delightful.

[audits]

[Unlike April, Ben is actually making progress on his... Whatever it is. (There are numbers and ledgers, it probably matters, okay.) He chances a look over to her. She's alternately amusing and terrifying.]

You know, I've heard you can make the universe bend to your wishes if you talk to it enough. There was a mutant like that.

[Trouble is, he can never tell which one she's going to choose to be at any given moment.]

[fiscal]

Leslie said you were manning the fort.

[ It's your favorite ex-roommate, April. And today he's feeling generous because he's brought you lunch — from the Sweetums expense account. Yes, Andy had really good ideas about cutting the fat but he's not going to forget about on demand oyster bars and fondue carts and. It's really delicious, all right. He doesn't splurge that much, it's okay. And it's for someone else so even more in the clear. ]

But I haven't heard anything on the radio about burning parks, so good going so far.

hi bro

[shineonyou]

[ What's worse than a hapless intern? Being a high school volunteer. ]

Hey, uh... I'm new? I mean, new here. I'm working here... as a volunteer. Not really sure where I'm supposed to go.