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Understandably.

Am not.

Well I was fast-tracked into Rossum; studied enough to get my doctorate but never actually did. I was sent to DC as soon as I was done in Tuscon.

I liked it. Well, obviously I liked it, because you were there. But I like the climate in southern California.

No you.

Who needs doctorates and internships when you get to do what we did? I don't regret skipping residency. I hate hospitals anyways. They're such downer places.

You were the bright spot of DC, definitely. [bluuushhhinnggg] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I tried to get people to watch that with me you know. No sense of irony.

We're going to get stuck in a loop with that.

Well, I don't know. Being a Ph.D. would have been nice, in it's own way. I wouldn't change any of it either, though.

I saw that movie! I always wondered what happened after. Did they regain their memories over time?

NO YOU! ...Yeah ok done.

The only time people call me Dr. Brink is when we're faking it to the public or when I'm in deep. So you're still not missing anything.

I think they were supposed to, that was the more romantic ending. Personally I was rooting for Elijah Wood's character. The science was all bogus anyways.

Thank you, Topher.

Well, Dr. Halverson sounds like some sort of pro-biotic cheese label. I just mean in the sense of knowing I'd done it. None of us go into programming to see our names on documents or the news. We aren't headliners.

Very bogus. Elijah Wood's character...ehn. I could have done without him. Instead of copying her boyfriend directly he should have tried to learn her in a different way. Besides, the main problem with the romantic ending is that the issues inherent in their relationship were never resolved, so they were going to just break up all over again eventually.

But you know you could do it, so why do you need to? The whole academic process is antiquated and run on politics based on who sleeps with whom and who you got to peer review your last paper! The world's not run by academics--look what happened to our current president! Man's got crazy companies nearly destroying the world with secret tech--bet he didn't learn that at Columbia!

No way, E-Wood was the man behind the gray matter curtain. One of us! Why reinvent the road when there's tracks there to follow, so to speak. I bet their cyclical romance is a metaphor for something. Circle of life stuff.

You remember the first time you didn't finish an assignment because you realized it didn't matter, they weren't paying attention to your work anyway because they expected that sort of thing from you? Maybe even resented it? The way it was kind of frustrating until you made it a game for yourself and not the rest of them?

It's kind of like that.

I'll bet he would have failed at it too. I mean, there's a lot to be said about natural progression versus...what he was doing, which was like reading an old discarded imprint and using it for a handbook on dating. If it worked that way, we'd get more permanent imprints being married off. But if only one person grows and the other doesn't, or doesn't know how, it gets messy or so I think.

Sort of? I actually spent a lot of my time doing other people's assignments for them for extra cash. I look back and consider it training for my current job making imprints. Well that and playing a ton of RPGs. But I kinda get what you're saying. Validation is validation, particularly if you get something personal out of it.

Are there really that many permanent imprints? They degrade over time and that's another kinky in the whole 'happy ever after part'. Honestly? After watching Echo, Sierra and Victor, I think we're deluding ourselves. They can grow. The imprint probably isn't the problem--we can make them be the perfect mate. It's the other side of the equation that's fail. So maybe it wasn't necessarily Elijah Wood's techniques that were wrong after all.

I wonder if there is a gender differential there. I mean, no one offered me money to do their homework, just a lot of things I didn't want or need from them.

So, yes, I would've liked it for me and no one else.

There aren't, for exactly that reason. I guess you have a point. Still, I don't think it would've worked.

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