The week had been full since the Claire Mensah piece settled. Olivia managing the incoming requests, the board member conversations still being scheduled, the Lumière Paris approvals still moving through their final stages. By Thursday morning the noise from Vanessa's failed interview and the blogs that had turned on her was still rippling through comment sections and publications but it had moved from something requiring my attention to something simply existing in the background, like weather that has passed but left the air changed.
The Harrington anniversary event was on a Thursday evening.
I was glad for the event. Not because I needed the distraction but because James Harrington was someone worth being in a room with and the Harrington Group's thirtieth anniversary was a legitimate
