"How much longer until you graduate, again, anyway?" Mindy asks. She's positive that Elle has told her a dozen times before, but she's less versed in law school dynamics than medical. Even that varies from place to place and universe, and she'd been confused enough while she was there. "I feel like all of my friends are in college and I'm a working stiff."

One that loves her job, but still. Mindy misses learning, sometimes. It's not like she can exactly go out of town for conventions on the latest breakthroughs in laparoscopy these days.