posting 20050826

Enough thinking, I decided. I grabbed the first file.
"'Abrogate -- to annul, or repeal,'" I said. "Your son knows what it means,
of course. That's why he looked so surprised when I used it. It's sort of fu
nny, because I didn't use it to mean anything -- it was just the first word
that came into my head. But his reaction says to me that you didn't really c
all me over here to express your concerns about your son's career. You had m
e come over here to fire me. Right?"
"Man, your alien dog was right," Van Doren said. "This is the weirdest night
of my life."
"There's a comment that works on a whole bunch of levels," Miranda said.