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Couldn't the offer letter say something like "contingent on passing a drug test"? It's a puzzler, since the library is playing legal hardball and leaving themselves a way out of employing a drugee... But it also means you're just left with an oral contract. I would say follow through with the travel, particularly if you were planning on spending some money on travel expenses in your job search. I wouldn't turn in your two weeks notice at your current job.

That has one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs And, it's one my friend lent to me on vinyl, so yes, I will be listening to that soon. Edit: It is now the fourth of February, and absolutely no-one else on the Shard is listening to music, and I must edit this post to avoid double posting. Tonight is a double feature: Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle (I will particularly enjoy Echoes)

Sometimes you don't like tea or cups...or something like that. But worry not! We may save your soul, yet!

I have two things to say Twi: Your parents do not care about reason or your desire. Any obstacle to their vision of how you should live your life will be ignored. You could show them a certified letter from Spokane that says, "We believe she should work in New Orleans!" And it would only be proof that they were about to hire you if you only wait and sign away your soul. It's like that sci-fi title: "No Truce With Kings", and your parents seem to think themselves royalty. You just let them know this is what you want, and if they don't like it, they can eat a bucket of raspberries, or something. Secondly: Shallan is great and superior to Wayne.

I have imprisoned him in my Fortress of Lies!

I do make it rain at the bookstores

I got this bs when I got my current job. It was a scam, I was being set up as a sacrificial lamb, it did not make sense, etc. No proof will ever be enough. You're smart, you can tell that this isn't a front for getting you hooked on heroin, and if you hear decent advise in all that madness, you take it. Trust yourself and leave your rabid parents to foam at the mouth

Does that mean you're going to take one of her socks?

It comes with the fantasy territory. I don't see what the issue is. It might be kinda silly, but frankly so is the entire premise of the genre as well.

This last year, I found Tyelenol was a lifesaver for whatever terrible cold was going around.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. On vinyl, no less! (This is from the re-issue "A Nice Pair", so I'll also be listening to Saucerful of Secrets soon).

Then I think you should be fine. The worse that may happen is that the rest of us set the bar too high for you.

If you do not like them, you'll just lose all your friends and bring dishonor to your family. No big deal

Congrats, Twi! And ask your mom of her minister's certification is actually a declaration of insanity, because I don't think she should own guns or vote.

Looks like I've completed three of these, and read three others besides. I'm currently reading The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell which is just fantastic. I'll probably bring the Sartre book around with me and whittle away at it bit by bit.

Boooooo! *throws tomato*

Oh, Anthony Powell...it's been too long, welcome back to my life! Didn't think I would find a scene involving the lack of porridge so amusing.

Well, you know what they say: A broken clock is right twice a day!You can also get a good idea of a person's generation based on how confusing the previous statement is to that person.

Some people just aren't creative!

Just remember, life isn't a competition! We all make it to the finish line

You know, there's such a thing as "creative non-fiction"

Didn't absorb nearly as much Stormlight this Saturday as last weekend, but I got some nice corn mush! That is the secret to a happy life: corn mush.

That happened to me with Ernest Hemingway.Also, that spoiler shouldn't be in this forum.