"No one there is doing the kind of research Professor Seidel is doing on nondeterministic polynominal timelines..."

Squee! That is such delicious technobabble! I want to do research on nondeterministic polynomial timelines! (And I hate science. Seriously, I think the hardest part of writing Fred is coming up with semiplausible-sounding pseudoscience.)

I love these slices of Fred's life; they fit so well with what we know about her, bringing out what's so great about her character.