So I just got back from visiting with my Editor who was Kind enough to save me from having to board that WTF Airline Flight to the Highly Unpleasant Detention Hive somewhere off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.  He was Curious about what I'd been Up To since he made it Clear that I now Owe him Big Time for my Continuing Freedom (he insisted that I go back to working for the Bee Times Gazette Journal Record...and Online News as a Special Feature Reporter, you know). I'm mostly Relieved.

"So what have you been working on since I saved your Stinger last week, Bee?" He wanted to know.

"Well," I tried to think of something fast, since the most I'd done for the last week or so was to hang out around some local Trash Cans and spend some time with some other Bee friends enjoying snacking on what was left in some discarded Coke cans and listening to the latest Gossip, so I told him, "I've been Focusing my Attention on gathering Background Information on the Controversies surrounding Her Insufferable Majesty Queen Darla's Regime so I can provide you with a Juicy Exposé," I said, but of course I wasn't completely telling him the truth at all; in fact, I might have possibly been Lying, probably, since I had mostly spent most the week just Hanging Out with some friends, as I just mentioned.

"Excellent," he said.  "Am I right in thinking that you're working on a Report about the Queen's plans to negotiate a Trade Deal with that Swarm of Murder Hornets?"

"Are you kidding?" I asked, "She's doing that?" I asked, then I started wondering if I still had any of those Murder Hornet Swatters I had sold awhile ago, just in case my Editor decided to make me set up an Exclusive Interview with those guys, which I hope he doesn't. 

"No, I am not kidding. And have you started to look into the Reports that, while you were Sleeping through the Cold Season, we lost something like 61.0987% of our Fellow Bees?"

"We did?" I was Highly Distressed to hear that - and I hoped he wasn't blaming me for that."

"Yes, we did," he said.

"But that's not my Fault, right?" I asked, hoping that isn't my Fault.

"I don't beelieve so," he reassured me. "but that remains to bee Seen. We need you to Investigate this Situation."

"Fine," I said. Geeeeeze... I hope I don't find out that losing all those Fellow Bees is my Fault. I don't think I could handle that, but quite Frankly, I Totally Wonder how the hell I could bee responsible for 61.0987% of our Fellow Bees Perishing over the Cold Season. I was Asleep the whole time, mostly, though as I understand it (as Potato my Sensory-Impaired Certified Emotional Support/Service LadyBug informed me), I do have a Tendency to occasionally Buzz and Fly in my Sleep, so who knows what the hell Happened when that Happened? I don't. But I guess that's why my Editor is insisting I Look Into the Issue. As much as I'm not into Self-Incrimination, it looks like I hafta' at least look into the Possibility that I'm Responsible for all that. It's my Job now, after all.

"In the Meantime," my Editor kept Buzzing at me, "I want you to Dedicate your Time today to cover the Festivities associated with World Bee Day today. I think it is important for the Bees who have to keep working in the Hive today to bee able to hear all about everything they missed."

I had no Idea that today is World Bee Day. I don't even know what that Means, but I'm hoping that maybee there's a big Party going on for us, or maybee we'll bee getting some Gift Cards or something. Then I wondered who it is that gets to Celebrate World Bee Day, beecause it doesn't seem to bee Bees, now does it?

"But," I asked beecause it needed to bee Mentioned, "doesn't everybody in the Hive have to Work today?"

"Of course they do," he said, "which is why your Report is going to bee so good for Circulation. It's like I always say, 'the Newspaper Buzziness is built on Bees wanting to read about what they Missed'."

I'd never thought of it that way beefore, maybee beecause I'd never heard my Editor say that beefore, so I said, "I've never thought of it that way beefore, but I'll bet you're Right. Everybody is Moved by what we write, aren't they? And that makes them even more Curious, and that keeps them Flying Around trying to find out more about what they Missed, which is great for Circulation and Overall Health. And I'll bet it also sells a lot more copies of the Bee Times Gazette Journal Record... and Online News, doesn't it?" I said. I knew my Editor would bee Impressed with my Innate Understanding of the Newspaper Buzziness.

My Editor just kind of stared at me with his Beady Compound Eyes for what seemed to bee a Long Time, then he suggested, "Get the hell out of my Office".  So I did that.

Today, on this World Bee Day, I'm gonna do my Best to go find out whatever it might bee that the Bees who have to Work (which is everybody) are Missing, and then I'm going back home to my ShoeBox to see if I can find one of those old Murder Hornet Swatters so I can Investigate whatever's happening with the Deal that Her Insufferable Majesty, Queen Darla, is trying to make with those usually-not-so-Friendly-or-Safe-to-Bee-Around Murder Hornets.

So I'm gonna go do that.