The Clock Is Ticking

So good to see Tai again. I remember her first appearance. She cracked a joke: “Dewey Decimal System? Do we ever!”

Philip D Jones

Sooooo, she is basically taking the standard librarian exam...

Shawn K. Younkin

Probably Spookybot is Anonymous.

I have decided that Claire is taking the library special forces exam, in which she is charged with cataloging texts in untranslated ancient languages, devising LC call numbers for branches of knowledge that do not yet exist, telling which blue book with kind of swirly letters in the title a long-dead patron was looking for, tracking down the reclusive author Anonymous and finding out their real name, and parachuting into a burning library to retrieve a crucial archive. So far as she knows, this is the exam everyone takes. They won't let her know till it is time to activate her.

I still think it's a hypothetical conversation

Mooster

Oh, there are plenty even after school. I graduated a long time ago and have a certification exam at the end of the month that's 6 hours long with a break.

Tinwhisker

Of all the fugue states that Tai has experienced, mid-exam fugue is her least favourite.

Dean Reilly

What kind of monstrous exam is long enough to need a meal break?!?

Patrick Jackson

At first I thought the apple in Clare's hand in the first panel was a chunk of her hair...was worried for a second there !

Those are cute shorts on Thai

Bagge

This is the first time 'tall' has been in the same sentence as 'Tai' without being preceded by 'not (very)'.

gatherer818

And teh fiddling ain't bad either.

BobC

Fiddling while the exam burns. It burns so good.

BobC

Claire needs to take a nap when she gets home

Dylan T

I couldn't tell that Claire was sitting down at first and my first thought was DAAAAAMN TAI'S TALL

I love Claire’s hair at this length.

Will Weaver

aw baby

I'm just amazed she gets a break in the middle of an exam, to be honest. Unless it's a break between two different exams, then that makes sense. Poor Claire, I hope she does well. I enjoyed exams but they were still a headache to sit through. So many hours. So many horribly uncomfortable chairs...

Samantha Yeaman

"...do you smell toast?" "CLAIRE NO."

J.M. Hall