From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Rachel wrote:   
      
   > -Midnight in the A.B.G-O shack-   
   > The door burts open with a gust of scorching wind. Sand swirls in and   
   > scatters across the floor; a moment later, Rachel stumbles in, dressed   
   > in tattered black  and clutching the Articles, Journalism, and Letters   
   > and two thick binders to her chest.   
   > "I'm back," she says. "I've done it. Two theses, ninety-seven pages, a   
   > degree with honors in English, and a degree in Creative Writing."   
   > Robbie looks up slowly from the newspaper, still dated April 3, 2004.   
   > "It's been awful," he says. "Did you bring cigarettes? Martha's pipe   
   > gives me nightmares about Jung."   
   > Rachel slumps down at the table, knocking over one of Kelwin's   
   > crutches. "Couldn't find any," she says. "Haven't seen another living   
   > person for days. I thought I saw some vultures picking at Bayle's   
   > remains, but it turned out to be a giraffe."   
   >   
   > So, yeah. I graduated. And am taking a year off to fill out grad   
   > school applications and study massage therapy and kinesiology. Got me   
   > an honest-to-god adjunct faculty job, too, starting in August,   
   > directing the Writing Resource Center at WWC (for now, I'm being a   
   > webmonkey--English syntax is wonderful prep. for CSS commands). And   
   > I've got enough time not only to read the copy of Sartor Resarus   
   > that's been sitting on my shelf since December, but to post here   
   > again. Hooray.   
   >   
   > /Rachel   
      
   Welcome back and congratulations.   
      
   I don't know if this place is a snuggery, a shack or a shebeen, but I've   
   found some more of those china mugs. A little dusty but nothing a good   
   rinse won't cure. Fancy a well-earned pint?   
      
   Speaking of Jung (and of rinsing the mugs), I think the abgosynch may be   
   on its way back to working order: Just now I Googled the word "shebeen"   
   and what should come up but an ad for a bar at 16 Rue du Pot de Fer,   
   Paris. See   
   .   
      
   /M   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)