cinderella notes the proverbial stroke of midnight.

[strucktwelve]

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[strucktwelve]

As opposed to what?

I'm getting sacked, aren't I.

[maleficentia]

Well, the salaries they pay us, they generally expect us to stick about. I doubt they'll can you, however, so much as forget to ask you back.

[invisibyron]

So those salaries are... reasonable?

[strucktwelve]

Reasonably reasonable?

[maleficentia]

Generously tenable, certainly. They tend to be a bit more...forthcoming when it comes to their guest professors, as it generally takes a bit more to lure us them in, but they don't make paupers of the general faculty in even the most unkind of retellings.

[strucktwelve]

Well, crap. Well, can't say teaching was the fulfilling experience I was hoping it would be, anyways.

[maleficentia]

That's because you're teaching at Columbia, duckling.

[strucktwelve]

"Duckling"?

[maleficentia]

Would you prefer 'hen'?

[strucktwelve]

How about "Your Grace"?

[maleficentia]

I wouldn't hold my breath in wait for that one, if I were you.

[strucktwelve]

Killjoy.

[maleficentia]

Yes. In the job description, practically.

You declare that as though you're the first to assign me the designation.

[strucktwelve]

GASP. You mean I'm not?

I feel so dirty.