Eileen Morsink's Links
You have not known fear until you're at a job interview, and your future boss looks you directly in the eyes and says: "I have read some of the stories you publish online under the pen name 'Jean the Party Captain.' Can you explain your motivation in making them available anonymously and for free?" I spent the whole rest of the interview answering every question with way too much honesty because I thought I was going to get rejected anyway. She hired me instead.
She's awesome, and I will not tolerate anyone bad-mouthing her.
I had very high standards for my teaching assistant. The most important criteria I had were "should not be a spy for any Earth government or corporation," "should know English" and "should be willing to live in a space ship for half a year," but I was also hoping to find someone whose morals were compatible with my own, so that the diplomats wouldn't immediately be confronted with an Earthling who thought that their planet needed more war or something like that. To my delight, Eileen met all of those standards and even already knew a little bit of Interlang!
If I had to choose any one of the diplomats to decide the fate of humanity, I'd pick Amata ten times out of ten. That's not why they're here, but you know, it's comforting to know that despite our flaws, Amata still thinks we're 'really cool.' Plus, they did me a huge personal favour for no other reason than that they believed it was the right thing to do. That kind of action tends to build trust.
Gonna be completely honest here: when I first met Eileen, I thought "if all Earthlings are this patient and avoid conflict like this all the time, my assignment on Earth will be quite boring." I'm pleased to report that I was completely wrong. Including about Eileen, they sure didn't "avoid conflict" when they disagreed with anyone on the First Contact team who they weren't being paid to have pleasant conversations in English with.
No, I do not want to kiss NovaTriesStuff on the mouth. She's a lot of fun to watch and would probably be equally fun to hang out with, but what you must understand about my romantic fan fiction is that the 'aliens' in Interstellar Journey were played by attractive human actors with unusual makeup, whereas Nova is a real space alien whose saliva is actually venomous. She said that on stream once if you don't believe me.
So apparently one of the subscribers to my streams is actually Pal's old teaching assistant. Neat! I hope they enjoy my content!
He's very friendly, and doesn't rub it in your face that he can do math really fast. Just don't let him cook "experimental Earth cuisine" for you and you'll be fine, he does not know which ingredients go well together or how many ghost peppers is an appropriate amount to put in a pasta dish. Apparently, this is not how he killed some kind of space pirate king that one time.
The first human friend I've made. Thanks to them, I have concluded that despite the similarity between a hotdog and a donut, their habit of dunking a hotdog into their coffee is significantly less socially acceptable than doing the same with a donut. Would it make a difference if the sausage was vegan? This will require further investigation.
Not only does she give me all sorts of experimental alien technology, she also inadvertantly answered my question about how a centaur would wear pants. The website that she created is one of the funniest things I've ever seen - and once you get over the way it looks, it also teaches you Interlang. I'm a big fan!
Thanks to Eileen, I understand the Earth Internet SO MUCH BETTER! They also try out all of my experimental technology without complaint. I might have only known them for a few months, but I would help them commit a bank robbery (figuratively) (platonically).