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My atterudgingly thawed over the past few ht he likedrad school was the surest way to advance, especially if I hoped to join the Mars team It was sound advice, and I’d taken it in spite of the fact that additional education was going to cut into et to smithereens next year

We were never going to be best buddies, but I’d evidently uidance and the an that he’d forgotten about my earlier faux pas and hadhad changed, and Neas out to get ain

I couldn’t figure out what I’d done

“I’rumbled irritably “However, the same cannot be said about the state of the data you reported on the exoplanet atmosphere of N25C It’s abysmal!”

N25C? What the hell was that? If it was a new star, it wasn’t on a report I was responsible for I set logic aside and homed in on his choice of adjectives Abysmal How dare he?

“Abys forward “Explain yourself”

I wished I earingit overhero or a va his prey a rare second chance to escape his wrath Newton the neutron nerd ell out of line

“Gladly! Your et the radial velocity or…”

Ugh I saw red I wanted to punch his lights out and deanic whole wheat cereal when he launched into a laundry list of complaints about my attention to detail But somewhere in his crazy speech about data expectancy and protocol, I realized there had to be so so well until—oh…

Happy hour

Happy hours were a rare occurrence in my department, so it must have been to celebrate a birthday Maybe Newton’s? I hadn’t planned on being there long, but three drinks later, I’d found ineer from the lab next door and—