[economics wasn't her strongest point at school, but she finds the system here fascinating. and hilarious because people like obscenely rich reality TV stars would actually have to do things like comb the beach for shells, sea glass, and fossils]

It would probably be hard, there used to be these order forms in my dad's old comic books where if you send them a dollar, they'd sell you a grow your own crystals at home kit. But those ads were also next to the ones for x-ray glasses, so I never took them seriously. Though, maybe I should have?

[and she looks a bit alarmed, as though she said something wrong]

No, I mean, you're fine. Do you have any current projects?