Chapter 1586 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep124

• "The thing is, I am set for life now. But staying at that job longer had serious costs attached, I was headed for a burnout but I pulled out in time. It is easy to think you are okay until you smack into something serious and then find it is too late. I know too many folks in jail or the loony bin because they just wanted a little more money they could never enjoy, and a little more of a rush for the sake of a rush. I left too early - before I got that first rush from crossing the line - instead of too late. I had enough money. Plus I wanted real challenges with real power and real 'do good' rewards. That sounded mercenary, but call it Che Guevara or Marquis Lafayette types or mercenary. This particular job appealed because the President was willing to work for me, basically to misbehave to save his name. I will have real power to change things without the burnout. It fits me."
• "Back to Nancy..."
• "Yeah, can we stipulate a few things instead of doing 20 questions? We share a room here with 2 beds. I like her. But we are not exclusive and she knows from day one that I am not the 'settle down and make babies' type she thinks she wants. She had a boyfriend, the last of a string on worthless townies. He gave her a ring, then made the choices so he wound up shot in the back about a month ago. He had tried to rob her when the hole he dug got too deep. That bullet cleared her schedule, and she still needed a guy, so... She made a legitimate contribution to the paper - Box Jenkins was all her doing - and we are working on others, she has also has some things in the hopper with Dryden. You and I agree that she is PhD material. But she has a problem with leaving town so the usual steeplechase route to a PhD is not her thing. She can clear obstacles, and run distances, but can't go the distance at a big school with the usual course. That sticks her on a non-career time clock. Are we agreed so far?"