Summary

Joan waves at a dancing Santa in a Santa Claus parade. She joins Reese for lunch in the cafeteria, who tells her he is unsure whether he is fit for medicine. Joan’s raise makes him feel like he is not good enough. Joan gets annoyed when he says that men feel more pressure in their careers than women. She tells him to “fuck right off” (79).

Joan says that the most people die during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. During that week, Joan finds a TV outside her apartment door. It Mark’s old TV. He is giving it to her because he is shocked that she does not own one. Mark helps Joan move it inside her apartment. Mark asks Joan which wall she wants the TV on since he will have to inform the “cable guy” (81). Joan...