Disclaimer: Don't own Gilmore Girls. Sorry.

A note or two: I started this story before Rory went to college. Now I'm gonna do a really evil thing.. I'm gonna skip introducing Rory to college in my own story. We know she's at college, and in the next chapter everything that's happened so far this season has happened (although next episode she goes on a date - that does NOT happen in the story). Also, this is going to be a relatively short story (although I may draw it out, because I like short chapters, they give you lots of stopping places), so you won't have to be disappointed over me skipping all of that because I'm going to try to keep it moving relatively fast. That said, here we go:

Jess burst into the first office he saw on campus.

"I need a job here," Jess announced.

"Here-Yale-here, or right-here-here?" asked an aging balding man sitting behind a desk.

"Somewhere on the campus."

"Now?"

"No, in twenty years," Jess said sarcastically.

"Do you have any teaching experience?" the man asked seriously, as if he might actually offer this young interruption a teaching job.

"I can teach someone to screw up their life," he muttered.

"Excuse me?" asked the bald man who hadn't heard Jess' remark.

"No, I don't have any teaching experience," said Jess in the exasperated tone he often used.

"Good," said the man, "because I'm the head of the custodial staff here." Jess shrugged and the man smiled for the first time since Jess entered the room.