Is a college degree worth it? An experiment (Concluded, with results)

Truffle is getting handier. I learned that her lack of handiness was probably to blame for her frequent electrocutions.
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Please don’t hurt yourself, sis…
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Duck got promoted again. Engineering Technician. S82/hour, 8 hours 4 days a week. She rules at work. Cross her at your peril.
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Bargain finally made it to Britechester campus! And acquired a shirt.
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The three single and lovin’ it, close-knit, techie siblings all hate Love Day. They started the day by grousing about Love Day to each other over their coffee. Angela called Bargain for a date, he put her off, she came over instead.

I really think we should just be friends.
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Happy love day? Uh, sorry, my timing stinks…

No problem, yes, I agree! Happy love day and everything
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Five minutes later
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Angela, maybe we should see less of each other in general?

That evening they went to the spice festival. There was a cute guitarist playing.
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Truffle and Kiyoshi got talking. “Don’t you hate Love Day?” she asked. “I hate Love Day so much! It’s annoying!”
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“Uh, yes, of course I hate Love Day too…”
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Truffle listened to Kiyoshi’s next set intently. Meanwhile, the curry hurts Bargain’s face.
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Mortimer isn’t having such a great Love Day either.
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The next night Bargain and Duck went out dancing with Miko and Truffle’s servo friend Zeus. (Truffle was at home sleeping off a cold.) Servos are funny dancers.
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They dropped in on Yuki afterward since she lived in the neighborhood.
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Yuki went on about her love of music.
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Bargain claimed to love music too. Which wasn’t exactly a lie. He did also perhaps claim to love playing the guitar. Which was only a lie if you considered that he didn’t have a guitar (yet) or have ever played it before (yet). Here he is retroactively trying to make that true…
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They compared notes over coffee the next morning.
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And then Miko invited Duck out to the flea market. They didn’t really participate much in the flea market.
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“OK, now I need to learn to sing right away, can you help me?”
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End of term 1! Grades are in! Not sure what happened with that B minus there, Bargain… otherwise they did great.
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They threw a fun and awkward party for the end of term.
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And maybe they’ve found some love interests after all.
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