"Noor, they're just reports. You don't need to grade them. Just make sure the information seems to be there before you pass them on to me."
"Director Skinner, I know this is outside my pay grade, but...I'm losing my mind. I have a three- and a four-year-old. Nothing they do makes me this crazy. Not even the time they flushed my phone."
"You can flush a phone?"
"Apparently, yes. Please, it's like wading through the output of a creative writing class. Please, please could you have a word with them? They can paste that stuff into their blogs. Tell them to start blogs. They'd like blogs."
"Donna, tradition is, the new hire gets the X Files reports."
"Are you saying this is some kind of hazing, sir?"
"No, no, it's just...fair. Nearly everyone in your position comes to me about Scully and Mulder's reports. I worry about the ones who don't. Scully and Mulder are... They're excellent agents. But they're both pointlessly over-educated, and they encounter a lot of...unusual situations. Writing is one of the ways they blow off steam. I'm not sure I want to know what else they do. From the number of FOI requests we get, I think they even have fans. There's an art student in Chicago who keeps sending us mini-comics she's doing for her senior project."
"Those things in the break room? I thought they were religious tracts."
"Not for real religions. Dave filled in and mailed one of the coupons and now he's a minister for the Church of the Jersey Devil. He can perform weddings."
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"Director Skinner, I know this is outside my pay grade, but...I'm losing my mind. I have a three- and a four-year-old. Nothing they do makes me this crazy. Not even the time they flushed my phone."
"You can flush a phone?"
"Apparently, yes. Please, it's like wading through the output of a creative writing class. Please, please could you have a word with them? They can paste that stuff into their blogs. Tell them to start blogs. They'd like blogs."
"Donna, tradition is, the new hire gets the X Files reports."
"Are you saying this is some kind of hazing, sir?"
"No, no, it's just...fair. Nearly everyone in your position comes to me about Scully and Mulder's reports. I worry about the ones who don't. Scully and Mulder are... They're excellent agents. But they're both pointlessly over-educated, and they encounter a lot of...unusual situations. Writing is one of the ways they blow off steam. I'm not sure I want to know what else they do. From the number of FOI requests we get, I think they even have fans. There's an art student in Chicago who keeps sending us mini-comics she's doing for her senior project."
"Those things in the break room? I thought they were religious tracts."
"Not for real religions. Dave filled in and mailed one of the coupons and now he's a minister for the Church of the Jersey Devil. He can perform weddings."
"I will keep that in mind, sir."