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[motherbored]

[There is a young girl sitting out at a table in a clearing somewhere with a laptop on the table and a sign that reads:

Technological diagnostics and repairs*

*Repairs and original inanimate state of object not guaranteed.]

[She seems to be drumming her fingers on the table in a bored manner]

Comments

[textbooktsun]

Not guaranteed, huh?

[motherbored]

It's the age thing, isn't it? That throws people off.

[textbooktsun]

Well you are just a kid. Even my students have almost a decade on you.

[motherbored]

College professor?

[textbooktsun]

That's right.

[motherbored]

What do you teach?

[textbooktsun]

Japanese Literature.

[motherbored]

I can honestly say I haven't worked my way up to that section yet.

[textbooktsun]

You're American, right? I think you can give yourself a few years.

[motherbored]

Depending on the stock here, it should only take a few weeks.

[textbooktsun]

Weeks? To learn a new language and catch up on an entire civilization's literature?

[motherbored]

The language thing is less of an issue than you'd assume and I didn't say I'd go through it in a few weeks, just that I'd work up to it. I have a few other things in my queue.

[textbooktsun]

That's a little better. Literature deserves time and respect!

[motherbored]

No one said I wasn't giving it that. I'm not going to apologize because I can read quickly--and thoroughly.

[textbooktsun]

Alright, if you can. And think about it after you read it.

[motherbored]

Oh, thank goodness you told me to. If you hadn't, I might've read the entire thing and not thought a single thing about it.