… and suddenly it was time to get up for work. \u00a0Dammit.<\/p>\n
Just before leaving for the Lab, I got a phone call. \u00a0I thought it might have been Kimberly and proceeded to freak out a little, but it was Skylar. \u00a0Skylar?<\/p>\n But seriously; I’ve recently had some bad experiences with women who can’t get me out of their mind, or calls to go out for food just before work, or – let’s face it – breakfast clam chowder.<\/p>\n The boss was excited by the results, but I don’t know if that’s because we\u00a0did<\/em> contact aliens, or that we failed to.<\/p>\n chapter 21 …<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boop Goes the Generator I didn’t sleep well, unsurprisingly. Kimberly’s rejection still stung, and I spent a lot of the night wondering what I had done wrong, what I could have done better. \u00a0Was I that bad in bed? \u00a0I thought we had fun. Or … well,\u00a0I had fun… \u00a0was she just pretend… … and … Continue reading “Jeanette, Chapter 20”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ross","category-jeanette","tag-skylar","tag-wormhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"11-15-16_8-34-40-am\"](\"http:\/\/darncats.ca\/images\/clanross\/1-20\/01.png\")
<\/a> I made pancakes, and they were goddamn delicious.<\/p>\n<\/a>Oh come on! \u00a0What the hell? \u00a0Maybe I’m just friggin’ clueless to the signals people send me, but I had no idea Skylar was interested. \u00a0I politely declined her offer, insisting that I had Really Important Things To Do at work today. \u00a0She seemed to understand.<\/p>\nI got into work this morning and had a good talk with Caitlyn, who made me feel a lot better about myself. Malcolm was grumpy about us standing around talking, but he can go stuff a turkey; I needed to vent a little.<\/p>\n Good old Robot never let me down either, and we’ve become close over these weeks. \u00a0We got to work right away on coming up with a Wormhole Generator.<\/p>\n<\/a>A WORMHOLE GENERATOR! \u00a0Okay, life is awesome again. \u00a0Oh Robot, if only I could take you home. \u00a0You’d never be a jerk to me.<\/p>\n I had to spend some time calibrating the thing, just so I don’t accidentally suck the lab into the cold vacuum of space. \u00a0Just as soon as I turned it on though….<\/p>\n<\/a> Malcolm Landgraab came running over and began to berate me on the dangers of technology and my recklessness with the fate of the planet and destruction of all humanity and blah blah whatever.<\/p>\n<\/a> <BOOP> He turned it off. We argued for a while about it.<\/p>\n<\/a> Seriously Malcolm, you’re out of line. \u00a0Who’s the senior researcher at this lab? \u00a0You want to play power games with me? \u00a0I JUST HAD TERRIBLE SEX WITH A WOMAN WHO DUMPED ME THE NEXT DAY!<\/p>\n<\/a> You know what? \u00a0Go clean something.<\/p>\n<\/a>Jerk. \u00a0Now, let’s see if we can’t call some aliens on this thing.<\/p>\n Well, I tried. \u00a0I\u00a0think<\/em> I got an answer, but it was really hard to tell.<\/p>\n<\/a>I made spaghetti that night. \u00a0I still had no answer to that question. \u00a0It may bug me for years.<\/p>\n