front desk

In early December, she was taking three classes and working eight hours a week at the front desk of the college counseling department — a position she got through the state’s welfare-to-work program.

At the motel — which was apparently not exactly the Four Seasons — she asked the person at the front desk which room Odom was in, got an answer and headed in that direction.

Years of that turned into a year-long stint at the front desk of a dog training facility in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

I recently did a panel with two doctors, and both of them said people are calling their front desk asking: “Is your doctor educated in menopause, and are they comfortable talking about hormone therapy?” which is everything we’ve been talking about for the last five years.

It’s not until she gets on her second bus that she chats with the woman she calls her “bus friend,” Zhanette Kazanzeva, who has just wrapped up a graveyard shift manning the front desk at a nearby hotel.