Celebrate Spooky Season with me! This is my favorite time of year, so I'm celebrating with an ihp marathon - Black Autumn IV: Nothing To Fear.  I'm running an episode a day and concluding the series on Halloween with FIVE NEW EPISODES! Enjoy! Counseling Session: Hastings, Christopher:Dr. Palmer: Agent Williams asked that I see you— Ruby, not Blake, to be clear. Said that you were having 'bouts of erratic behavior'.[Researcher Hastings is silent.]Dr. Palmer: Christopher?Rsr. Hastings: You and I both know that this is as confidential as the recipe for bread. I don't want to say anything that could compromise me.Dr. Palmer: What do you mean?Rsr. Hastings: I'm trying for my doctorate. I have my thesis mostly written.Dr. Palmer: I… wasn't aware. Congratulations.Rsr. Hastings: It sucks. It sucks, it sucks, it fucking sucks. Piece of goddamn shit, goddamn fucking—Dr. Palmer: Have you been sleeping well? Or at all?Rsr. Hastings: I've been trying to write the damn thing for weeks, doc. I have all the data I need, all of the charts planned out, the basic layout is there. I… I don't know how to write it. And even if I do, it's going— it's going to be trash, I know it is.Dr. Palmer: Have you tried for a Foundation doctorate before?Rsr. Hastings: No. I have to have at least eight years in the Foundation. This is my ninth.Dr. Palmer: Have you been getting any help with it?Rsr. Hastings: I… I have to do this myself.Dr. Palmer: Says who?[Rsr. Hastings is silent.]Dr. Palmer: I got my doctorate over thirty years ago. I had a half dozen people help me find resources and research, people who I still consider very good friends. It's okay to ask for help— god knows that Partridge would love someone else with accreditation in his department.Rsr. Hastings: He… he would just stare down his nose at me if I asked him.Dr. Palmer: Have you asked him?[Rsr. Hastings is silent.]Credit to original author http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/ihp Black Autumn IV Hub located