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40 lines
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<date 13790926>
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<from interlocutor.prime@escanaba.actual>
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<to archival.control@imprimatur>
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<Subject: Random Crewmember Logbook Entry Retrieval Program 002>
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<id: PO3 Goodman, Samantha R. / logdate: 13771217>
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+++BEGIN TRANSCRIPT+++
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Fifteen days. It doesn't seem like that much time. It really isn't
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compared to this trip. We've been underway now for 86,721 days
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objective time, 33,203 subjective. That's a long time, but nothing
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compared to fifteeen days with a malfunctioning food replicator.
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Fifteen days ago, I came out of stasis to find that the food
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replicator would only produce tapioca pudding. It doesn't matter
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what meal entry you input, tapioca pudding is what you get.
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Fifteen days is 45 meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner...
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tapioca pudding.
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I've been told that the last twelve shifts have been unable to
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find the fault in the food replicator. The technicians think it
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may be a software fault, but none of our software specialists are
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due to be woken from stasis until we arive at Iota Persei.
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Operations.prime has deemed this to be a low level priority and so
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no software specialists will be taken out of stasis to repair the
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food replicator. I still have eight, twenty-five day shifts left!
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I pass my other shift members in the passageways without comment,
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without eye contact. We move more as if we are animated corpses,
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pretending to be the living as we carry out our day to day work
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routines. The miasma of dispair is palpable in the recirculated
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air currents of the ship.
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I've been dreaming about it lately. I find myself half submerged
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in an ocean of tapioca pudding. I'm slowly sinking in the sticky
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sickly sweet pale maggot colored morass. It slowly oozes in to
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my ears, my nose, my mouth, smothering me. It fills me with its
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cloying saccharine gooey decay, slowly devouring my very soul.
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There is no escape.
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+++END TRANSCRIPT+++
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