[ In before both of them go on a (mild) clothes shopping spree in their respective separate cities following this conversation, it's fine.
...As for the inquiry, well. That might be a smidgen (which he'd insist was only that amount) of actual interest in getting to know more. He doesn't have very many friends. ]
PhD candidate? I didn't know you had to be a candidate before you received one.
[ That said, Ganymede knows jack about those but he assumed people get 'em automatically after they go to school for them. ]
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...As for the inquiry, well. That might be a smidgen (which he'd insist was only that amount) of actual interest in getting to know more. He doesn't have very many friends. ]
PhD candidate? I didn't know you had to be a candidate before you received one.
[ That said, Ganymede knows jack about those but he assumed people get 'em automatically after they go to school for them. ]
...Do you like tutoring?