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xp_communicationTo: [Vale, J.]
From: [Carlysle, V.]
CC: [Bishop, L.]
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Jessica (Jess? Jessie? Which do you prefer?),
I was going to write this in "professional voice" but I've been using it with people all day and it's driving me up the wall to listen to myself so just pretend I'm being annoyingly slick and professional, aye? Anyhow, as far as your inquiry about whether or not we're hiring, Lucas and I would love to have more help around the office. We've got a temporary full-time person, the two of us and someone I like to appropriate to help when I need her expertise. It can be both very, very excruciatingly slow around here and insanely chaotic depending on the day/week/lunar position/time of day/weather...
With Sarah recovering from everything that happened in Genosha she's mostly not working at the moment. We don't know what her plans are once she does come back, whether she will want to move up to take on more hours or not but we're pretty sure we can find something for you two to do even if you both want full time hours.
You'd be looking at general coffee making, answering phones, making appointments, transcribing notes, running errands and that sort of thing. We'd probably look at training you to be able to do some basic screening of clients to help us prioritize appointments and eventually allow us to met with fewer clients so we can be doing the investigating out in the field and in turn take on more cases than we can with our current set up. That would be a few months off at the least, of course. There's always the possibility of field work but we're a little worried about safety with you going catatonic when you have visions. If that's something you do want to do then after a number of months of doing reception/assistant stuff we can talk about the possibility and see what we can work out.
You would need to go through a whole finger printing process which we need to send off to the State Department along with my most favorite thing ever (paperwork) and you'd need to understand that every single thing that happens with clients or cases is strictly confidential and we both can and will hand you your ass for violating our clients' confidentiality.
That is what we can offer you to help you fill your time. Let us know if you're still interested.
-Vanessa
From: [Carlysle, V.]
CC: [Bishop, L.]
Subject:
Jessica (Jess? Jessie? Which do you prefer?),
I was going to write this in "professional voice" but I've been using it with people all day and it's driving me up the wall to listen to myself so just pretend I'm being annoyingly slick and professional, aye? Anyhow, as far as your inquiry about whether or not we're hiring, Lucas and I would love to have more help around the office. We've got a temporary full-time person, the two of us and someone I like to appropriate to help when I need her expertise. It can be both very, very excruciatingly slow around here and insanely chaotic depending on the day/week/lunar position/time of day/weather...
With Sarah recovering from everything that happened in Genosha she's mostly not working at the moment. We don't know what her plans are once she does come back, whether she will want to move up to take on more hours or not but we're pretty sure we can find something for you two to do even if you both want full time hours.
You'd be looking at general coffee making, answering phones, making appointments, transcribing notes, running errands and that sort of thing. We'd probably look at training you to be able to do some basic screening of clients to help us prioritize appointments and eventually allow us to met with fewer clients so we can be doing the investigating out in the field and in turn take on more cases than we can with our current set up. That would be a few months off at the least, of course. There's always the possibility of field work but we're a little worried about safety with you going catatonic when you have visions. If that's something you do want to do then after a number of months of doing reception/assistant stuff we can talk about the possibility and see what we can work out.
You would need to go through a whole finger printing process which we need to send off to the State Department along with my most favorite thing ever (paperwork) and you'd need to understand that every single thing that happens with clients or cases is strictly confidential and we both can and will hand you your ass for violating our clients' confidentiality.
That is what we can offer you to help you fill your time. Let us know if you're still interested.
-Vanessa
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:20 am (UTC)All I want is a nice, profitable excuse to be outside of the mansion now and then. Plus you get to know when you're getting a phone call or an angry customer with roughly five minutes of a head start, if not more. Sometimes.
So what I'm trying to say is that if this gets me out there I'm totally ready to do your coffee and arrange your papers. I'm pretty smart, if I can say so myself, so you can bet I'll be more or less aware of what's going on. And if I get a handle of this crazy power of mine I'll surely let you know. That might take months too though.
What bothers me is that I can't get there on my own, but I'm sure there are ways to work around that.
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:28 am (UTC)Getting here might be easier than you'd think, actually. Garrison drives into the city daily because he works for the FBI. So does Terry when she's in town but she's in CA right now. Clarice and Kurt (when he's in town) can both teleport and could possibly be persuaded/bribed. I can also talk to Adrienne since I think she's spending most of her nights at the mansion these days and she comes in daily to work here. She usually rides her motorcycle but I'm sure I can convince her to grab a community car from the school or some such. In short: There are ways.
But the important thing I'm getting here is...you're only unreliable useful for warning us about guys pissed off we revealed their affairs to their wives. You're going to have to make damn good coffee to make up for that. I mean, what use is an unreliable precog, after all? :)
Anyway, since I'm bringing you back to the mansion tomorrow we can figure out days and hours while you're here in the city. If you want you can even hang around the office for a bit to see how things are around here and Angel can either take off for the mansion or also hang around or whatever she prefers.
Is there a reason you're looking for excuses to run away already?
-Nessa
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:54 am (UTC)I might try and convince Clarice to do her thing. I don't think I want to exploit her though; I sorta like the girl already. But there are ways! This is good.
Hey, I can also see the far off future, so I could tell you if you're going to end up somewhere you don't want to, provided I'm around. It's pretty flaky stuff, like everything related to the future, but my visions are a lot less open to interpretation than most, for what I've learned. And I'm learning control alright!
I'll have to train myself in the art of coffeemaking. Turn myself into the ultimate coffeesmith.
I like Angel too. It would be cool if she wants to hang for a bit there, but yeah, it's up to her.
Well...this girl over here is convinced that I'm crazy, or at least wants to think that. I don't know. I was weird to her a while ago alright, but it's...it's completely overreacting. Now, I know Genosha hit people hard, and Sarah told me some stuff so I can't really say I don't understand her being touchy and stuff but. I can't deal with it, and my visions and my life being upside down.
The city, I know it better, and I like it better there, so yeah.
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:45 am (UTC)Don't worry about your flaky powers. I mean, hey, bonus points if they work and they're useful but Adrienne can read the history and future of objects. If we need someone reliable we can exploit her. :) We promise to like you even though you're a really shoddy precog. Or at least to not dislike you for it. And I mean that from the bottom of my blue little heart.
Maybe I should con Laurie into coming into the city and educating you...
We're generally pretty flexible around here, all things considered. There's a corner in the back of the office with bean bag chairs for loafing if she wants to be a slacker and chill while you check things out. And Angel's a pretty cool kid.She was my student for a semester back in the day.
Ah, drama. I don't blame you for jumping ship on that. New place, powers being funky (or so I assume since why else would you be up here?), reunited with your twin who has made basically a whole life you're not part of for once, and random crazy chick... A job's a way better idea.
-Nessa
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Date: 2012-06-20 06:20 am (UTC)We'll totally exploit her though. I like her but some things just have to happen. Sorry Adri.
The blond that was complaining a while ago? She didn't seem to be getting over anything.
I'll persuade her. I'm pretty good at this stuff. Maybe it's that people can't properly thing when I'm all over the place demanding stuff and being bossy, or I just tend to be generally right. Or both.
Funky is a way to put it. Sometimes after a particularly strong and long vision I have a hard time remembering I'm not Future Jessie anymore, and that everything is going to fade again. Have I explained to you how it works?
And Layla's not crazy. I think she has too much in her plate right now, and my awesome is throwing her out of balance.
....okay, she's kinda crazy, but still! I would like to know if we end up friends or not. There should be a way to steer my visions in some particular direction.
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Date: 2012-06-20 06:31 am (UTC)Don't lie, you just want more time to do your hair, don't you?
Laurie had a tough time. She went through a lot of the stuff your sister did, actually. Her boyfriend's in town now, though, and that's helping a little. Still, I think she can be convinced. Especially if I tell her I've eaten nothing but take out since getting home. This maternal need to feed me real food kicks in and you can't stop it. I bet it's still good leverage even now. Besides, friends get friends out of the damn house.
Eh, I think Angel can keep up with you being a bossy, demanding spastic ball of energy. That is more or less her shtick, honestly. At least it was a few years ago.
No, you haven't. Though I'm interested to know how your precog works. I used to work with both of the precogs who are here in the city at Snow Valley and when the cranky/stoic German is in town he very likely even counts as a friend. The different ways similar powers express themselves is always fascinating. Plus, knowing more about the whole catatonic thing is useful for purposes of you not breaking your head open in the office.
Oooh her. Yeah, I don't know her. She's too new for me to have any sort of experience with. Sometimes people are just kinda...off, you know? Hopefully it works out and all. Or you come to some sort of truce at least.
Have you talked to Marie-Ange? I'm sure your powers don't work exactly the same way but I think she's got ways of directing her visions (which are highly symbolic and rather annoying to try to decipher generally). A direct translation may not work for you but maybe it'll give you somewhere to start with experimenting. I'd offer to help but I've never been a precog before.
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Date: 2012-06-27 08:44 pm (UTC)My hair is awesome and it deserves lots and lots of time.
I'll keep an eye on her just in case she gets worse. Or wants to cook. And noted on Angel, I always liked having nice people giving me power over them (half kidding).
Well, it's pretty simple actually, which I guess makes people confused, because when you talk about seeing the future they all think that's this really obscure and complicated pile of crap that falls from the sky. And I guess more precogs would agree with them. But not me, I'm a special snowflake. Long story short, whenever I see the future I live the future; imagine that suddenly you are not you, but you a month ahead in time, but you don't remember being the you from a month behind, so you are totally into whatever Future You is doing, and you know what Future You knows, and you think the way Future You thinks. And then you are you again, and sometimes you just remember parts of what Future You knew, and sometimes you aren't sure if you are You or still Future You and the world is going to fade, but you always remember what you did and how you did it, just not how you were thinking or something like that.
The bad side is that I can't see other people's futures, so if I'm not somewhere in the future, I can't see it.
Kinda blows when you want to think you have free will, huh? Since I can tell what's going to be happening in a month, although I have changed it sometimes, it never changes too much. So there are parameters.
Well, all I know about her thing is that is vague and gives her headaches, but I should probably meet her. Precogs should watch each others' backs and what not right?