I hate being alone with my boss as we have nothing in common.

The mediologist busies himself with the forms of media like Marcel Proust with his petites madeleines, or Sigmund Freud with his slips.

It feels inevitable, he boohooed. Of course it was inevitable – he used to tweet at least six times an hour, endless say-what-you-see drivel.

The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.