"Oh. Um. Er ... I'm fine. Thank you. Er ... Mister Carpenter. Sir."I asked her to tell me what she was doing, and she did so. She did so in such a way...that I actually understood, and in the process her manner changed to one of confident competence. When she finished, I thanked her for such a clear exposition. She blushed, and I smiled and left."I want to promote her," Gerry told me when we got round to her. "She's that good. Within a month of her starting, other staff were taking queries and. Of course they did not know the details and all I told my mom is that it was over and done. I told her that Jennifer and I would never get back together and at that time I really meant it.With my college over for the summer I went home for a week and worked with my uncle on repainting my Nissan Pathfinder, which we had been totally restoring over the last year and a half, and we also finished restoring my old 1980s Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle. It was good for my mental state to have some. ”With that, Taylor nudged Whitaker away from the door and to the elevator. She went with it, but gave him a dirty look.“What the hell was that?” She asked when they were out of the room.“We got what we needed. What were you going to do, ask her if she’d seen him hanging around with a bunch of Muslim guys with long beards acting scary? Might have just of well asked ‘Do you think he was a terrorist?”“It was a valid question.”“After everything she said, what did you think the answer would be,. " I'm not surprised," Krissi said. "Some universities seem to think that if everybody has a different opinion than the average citizen, that qualifies as diversity. It turns out, of course, that most of the ones who think that are either socialists, or very left-wing." As if there's a difference," Devlin said. "My experience is that they're Marxists of different stripes, though for the life of me I can't tell the difference between a Maoist and a Trotskyite."Krissi shrugged. "There isn't much.