Tofu and Turnips -X-Files

Challenge: Include the following words in a story: melange, knavery, velleity, intrepid, querulous, chartreuse, turnip, foreboding, saturnine, and pragmatic.

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It was Saturday night, and Mulder was sprawled on his couch, engaged in a fierce internal debate - Chinese takeout, or delivery pizza? Chopsticks versus finger food, General Tso's chicken versus extra sausage and bacon, fortune cookies versus... hmm... He was still trying to figure out the pizza equivalent of fortune cookies when his phone rang.

He flailed one arm toward his desk, but the phone was just out of range of his fingertips, and he only managed to send a pile of books, papers, and other miscellaneous items flying. A pile that, until a second ago, had actually been organized, at least by his standards.

"Shit," he muttered, dropping his feet to the floor and leaning forward to grab the phone out from under a few old newspaper clippings. ("Bigfoot sighted?" asked one headline, while another read, "NIH refuses to comment on disappearance of top researcher.")

Yanking the phone cord to untangle it, Mulder put the phone to his ear.