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Oh. My. God.

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I am married to Richard Dawkins …

Your result for The Doctor Who Companion Test…

Romana II

 

 

You are Romana II. While you still retain all your knowledge from the Academy, your time spent traveling with The Doctor has mellowed you a bit, and you and The Doctor now get along quite well. The Doctor also greatly enjoys your company – you’re smart enough to keep up with him, but are no longer the brash young know-it-all of your previous incarnation.
Unfortunately, all that mellowing has also caused you to become a bit more dependent upon The Doctor than you might like – you seem to be getting captured by monsters more and more these days. Still, you know how to enjoy yourself, and will probably stick around for the time being.

The CIA is hiring!

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And I don’t mean the Church in Abingdon.

According to their vacancies page, “This includes Clandestine Service Officers to be on the front line of human intelligence.” Along with people like Einstein and Hawking? These will be recruited into the National Clandestine Service, the service so clandestine it – um – has a name with “clandestine” in the title. In this field they’re basically looking for people to recruit traitors in other countries, but strangely they feel the need for a sexier sounding job title.

Open Source Officer (Foreign Media Analyst) looks fun, but on closer inspection they have a different understanding to “open source”. I could reasonably go for Publications Officer, Librarian or Graphic Designer. I have a certificate to say that I successfully completed the LRQA Internal QMS Auditor Course but, even so,Contract Auditor would just be too scary – all depends on what you mean by contracts, eh, nudge nudge wink wink?

Of course, this all leaves aside the needlessly picky requirement of being a US citizen. I bet I know more American history than most Americans, and if Hollywood is anything to be (and has it ever let you down?) the CIA can employ both Brian Cox (Scottish) and Russell Crowe (Australian) so I could probably swing it.