This happened the other day around 4:00 in the afternoon. It was oddly slow in the coffee shop. My (extremely lucky) co-worker is sitting outside on her lunch break.
A woman comes into the shop on her cell phone. I look at her and smile as to acknowledge her and let her know I’m ready whenever she is, but not interrupt her phone call, which I’m really hoping she will finish before letting me know what she’d like. She is standing there on her phone, looking at the menu, not making any indication whatsoever that she is ready to order.
So, trying to be polite (how dare I), I began cleaning the espresso bar, so I won’t just be standing there awkwardly, but still be facing her. I look down briefly to wipe under the bar, and I look up (literally about five seconds later) to see her looking at me like I’m making her wait, phone still to her ear, but pulled away from her mouth.
( This is where it gets good. Well, bad. Really bad. Cut for looong interaction of suck. )
I think this might be one of my most degrading experiences ever with a customer. Ever.
A woman comes into the shop on her cell phone. I look at her and smile as to acknowledge her and let her know I’m ready whenever she is, but not interrupt her phone call, which I’m really hoping she will finish before letting me know what she’d like. She is standing there on her phone, looking at the menu, not making any indication whatsoever that she is ready to order.
So, trying to be polite (how dare I), I began cleaning the espresso bar, so I won’t just be standing there awkwardly, but still be facing her. I look down briefly to wipe under the bar, and I look up (literally about five seconds later) to see her looking at me like I’m making her wait, phone still to her ear, but pulled away from her mouth.
( This is where it gets good. Well, bad. Really bad. Cut for looong interaction of suck. )
I think this might be one of my most degrading experiences ever with a customer. Ever.
Title: Super Ianto
Author: __justaday
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Summary: Post-its between Jack and Ianto.
I'm not sure how many may have seen these but I hope you like them! I made this batch before leaving for France while I should be sleeping. Comments muchly appreciated, especially since it's been, um.... 7 months sinch the last lot??? YIKES!
The others are here in case you want to have a look through them all! :)
xxx
Author: __justaday
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Summary: Post-its between Jack and Ianto.
I'm not sure how many may have seen these but I hope you like them! I made this batch before leaving for France while I should be sleeping. Comments muchly appreciated, especially since it's been, um.... 7 months sinch the last lot??? YIKES!
The others are here in case you want to have a look through them all! :)
xxx
This morning the ancient laptop that Ted was using to access his email died a loud, sparkly death. We are attempting to fix the problem, but there will be AT LEAST a 48 hour delay on finding another temporary solution.
In the meantime, please direct any pressing inquiries to BPAL’s customer service or to Ted’s pm box on bpal.org.
Thanks, all!
In the meantime, please direct any pressing inquiries to BPAL’s customer service or to Ted’s pm box on bpal.org.
Thanks, all!
Title – Pauses (1/2)
Author – songspinner9
Rating – PG-13
Pairings – Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Disclaimer: The BBC owns Doctor Who and Torchwood. I'm just dabbling, 'cause the writers left these great, big holes in the storylines...
Summary: In between Day Two and Three, our heroes have to go to ground, and Ianto's not quite finished with what he began...a fill-in piece for what happened before Day Three. **SPOILERS FOR CHILDREN OF EARTH, a.k.a. Season 3**
Constructive feedback is always appreciated!
http://songspinner9.livejournal.com/120
Author – songspinner9
Rating – PG-13
Pairings – Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Disclaimer: The BBC owns Doctor Who and Torchwood. I'm just dabbling, 'cause the writers left these great, big holes in the storylines...
Summary: In between Day Two and Three, our heroes have to go to ground, and Ianto's not quite finished with what he began...a fill-in piece for what happened before Day Three. **SPOILERS FOR CHILDREN OF EARTH, a.k.a. Season 3**
Constructive feedback is always appreciated!
http://songspinner9.livejournal.com/120
Jesus Christ, people. If you're not into BDSM, please do a little research before writing hardcore BDSM fics, okay?
A brief primer:
( Cut for BDSM talk. )
In short, Wikipedia is your friend.
A brief primer:
( Cut for BDSM talk. )
In short, Wikipedia is your friend.
So if you wanted to make someone mad, how would you do it and why? Also what worlds might it might sense in, magic or technology one?
I have a fic idea for Tiwa that's coming into focus but I just need an explanation for something she fixes and madness is complicated. Help?!
I have a fic idea for Tiwa that's coming into focus but I just need an explanation for something she fixes and madness is complicated. Help?!
- Mood:
creative
Doctor ordered: Two doses of Maxalt-MLT. Two doses of Antivert. Keeping an eye on fever. Keeping an eye on everything. Taking a nap. Things are okay.
If I don't go tonight I have assured transportation at 8 am tomorrow to the Emergency Room, where I will be poked and prodded and tapped and scanned and we will find out what the hell is going on here.
...leave me cute macros and links to look at between tests? (I think I will need a lot of hot chicks and hot dudes to look at after that tap) Much appreciated!
If I don't go tonight I have assured transportation at 8 am tomorrow to the Emergency Room, where I will be poked and prodded and tapped and scanned and we will find out what the hell is going on here.
...leave me cute macros and links to look at between tests? (I think I will need a lot of hot chicks and hot dudes to look at after that tap) Much appreciated!
- Location:the fact this has a detect button next to it is badtouch
- Mood:
determined - Music:the killers: mr. brightside stuck in my head
Dear Dumbass in scrubs who isn't a nurse and misplaced her brain,
Ok, I understand that "Assisted Living" facilities don't have a complete medical staff on hand, but they do have to have someone who can take vitals and hand out pills. Don't tell me in a snooty tone that "we don't do vitals here because we're assisted living." You just told me the doctor is in, why didn't he take vitals? Didn't he see the lady clutching her stomach and crying in the medical office?
"Well I don't know, when I came on shift they told me she needed to go to the hospital, that's all I know."
Do you know anything about her? "Only what's on the paperwork." Did you ask her questions about how she feels? "She doesn't speak much English, only Spanish and Portugese."
Lady, I don't speak a word of either and I figured out what was wrong with her through basic hand gestures and 3 word sentences. She has lower left quadrant crushing abdominal pain. Well Renal Insufficiency + Constipation + not having pooped or peed in over 5 days = FUCKING ABDOMINAL PAIN!
And don't you dare tell me to "please not take a blood pressure in the hallway so not to disturb the other residents." The fact that this lady is crying and you haven't done a damned thing to help her is more important than the other residents, who are by the way walking by without bothering or talking to us. I am not leaving until I take a good set of vitals, you know, that thing that you "don't do" here?
No love,
Ari, the fed up EMT
Ok, I understand that "Assisted Living" facilities don't have a complete medical staff on hand, but they do have to have someone who can take vitals and hand out pills. Don't tell me in a snooty tone that "we don't do vitals here because we're assisted living." You just told me the doctor is in, why didn't he take vitals? Didn't he see the lady clutching her stomach and crying in the medical office?
"Well I don't know, when I came on shift they told me she needed to go to the hospital, that's all I know."
Do you know anything about her? "Only what's on the paperwork." Did you ask her questions about how she feels? "She doesn't speak much English, only Spanish and Portugese."
Lady, I don't speak a word of either and I figured out what was wrong with her through basic hand gestures and 3 word sentences. She has lower left quadrant crushing abdominal pain. Well Renal Insufficiency + Constipation + not having pooped or peed in over 5 days = FUCKING ABDOMINAL PAIN!
And don't you dare tell me to "please not take a blood pressure in the hallway so not to disturb the other residents." The fact that this lady is crying and you haven't done a damned thing to help her is more important than the other residents, who are by the way walking by without bothering or talking to us. I am not leaving until I take a good set of vitals, you know, that thing that you "don't do" here?
No love,
Ari, the fed up EMT
Transformers writers--especially Transformers Animated writers, because this seems to be where the biggest problems come up--please remember that the Transformers are not all the same size. The animation is a little inexact, and a lot inexact in the original cartoon, but you can generally get what size they are by watching.
For example, Bumblebee's about uke height to Prowl, with the top of his head somewhere around the region of Prowl chest. However, that does not make him standard uke height to the rest of the cast. He's far shorter than Prime, he's barely up to Megatron's knee. Similarly, Bulkhead is large, not just pudgy, so his size is a factor in his interactions with others.
And on a related note, why would Megatron 'sparkbond' with Bumblebee if that means one of them will die if the other dies? Why would Megatron bond with anyone for that matter, let alone someone who could cause his death if Blitzwing accidentally sat on him?
For example, Bumblebee's about uke height to Prowl, with the top of his head somewhere around the region of Prowl chest. However, that does not make him standard uke height to the rest of the cast. He's far shorter than Prime, he's barely up to Megatron's knee. Similarly, Bulkhead is large, not just pudgy, so his size is a factor in his interactions with others.
And on a related note, why would Megatron 'sparkbond' with Bumblebee if that means one of them will die if the other dies? Why would Megatron bond with anyone for that matter, let alone someone who could cause his death if Blitzwing accidentally sat on him?
Title: Five things John didn't realise Dean knew.
Rating: PG-13; Gen.
Notes: through the link to the journal. mentions of canon character death.
Disclaimer: not mine. at all.
Summary(and link): Dean knows John as well as he knows Sam, and John never knew that
- Mood:
chipper
I LOVE THIS STORY! IT ROCKS!" La La Land girl "Hey, fellow writer! I've gotta say, that was amazing! I love the story." Alexis Brewley "Very interesting..." Pala-and-Papipa "love it!" iloveme5895 "Her story is absolutely fanstastic." Miss Tear-Chan
This is annoying enough on the rear cover of a paperback. As a summary on Fanficnet? Major fail! It may convince us you have a big fat ego, but it won't entice us to actually read your fic.
- Music:The Cars, "Cruiser"
As many of you have probably noticed, Amazon has algorithms that go through the text of a book, pull out statistically improbable phrases (i.e. word combinations that don't occur often in the other books it has the text of), and list them on the book's page along with various tags and key words.
Well as it turns out, Amazon has the full text to The Romance of Lust and other masterpieces of gleeful, shameless, unapologetically urple Victorian porn. Needless to say, the list of key phrases could fill up six![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
weepingcock posts all by itself:
( So utterly NSFW )
Well as it turns out, Amazon has the full text to The Romance of Lust and other masterpieces of gleeful, shameless, unapologetically urple Victorian porn. Needless to say, the list of key phrases could fill up six
weepingcock posts all by itself:( So utterly NSFW )
Hallo there! I'm feeling a bit deprived of Boffle fic, as I haven't read any new Boffle fic in quite a while that I didn't write. So I have a question:
What sort of bribery do I need to resort to in order to get someone to write some Tony/Control fic, or anything Boffle-related? Or do I just need to ask really nicely?
I'd be willing to write or make icons for anyone who did so, if that sort of thing would help.
So! Does anyone have any creative urges? Does anyone want prompts or plot ideas? I'd love to encourage more fic!
What sort of bribery do I need to resort to in order to get someone to write some Tony/Control fic, or anything Boffle-related? Or do I just need to ask really nicely?
I'd be willing to write or make icons for anyone who did so, if that sort of thing would help.
So! Does anyone have any creative urges? Does anyone want prompts or plot ideas? I'd love to encourage more fic!
Hey folks. I need someone to beta something for me. It's nowhere near finished (almost finished with Part 1 of what is at the moment supposed to be a four-to-five-part story), but I would like to get some feedback before I soldier on with the rest of it. I have the entirety of the plot sketched out, but you don't need to see that, and so some things may seem unresolved/unclear in the bit I've got fleshed out right now, but that's fine and not really what I need the beta on.
The main character is Pudge Rodriguez, and I'm a little concerned about his conversational (not internal) voice. Pudge is canonically semi-fluent in English. I would say that he has an excellent understanding of conversational English and a moderate-to-good handle on speaking it-- he has a very thick accent and a tendency to drop plurals and revert to present tense, but he has almost no vocab issues and can respond without hesitation in conversation. He'll give interviews in person and only occasionally goes through a translator, usually for more official statements. He definitely doesn't need or use a translator around the clubhouse. I would say, just to reference some guys I've written relatively recently, that his command of English is worse than Jorge Posada's, but better than, say, Daisuke Matsuzaka's.
So what I would like someone to do is go through what I've got so far with a critical eye for Pudge's conversations with the other characters. Does he 'sound' OK? I don't really want to try to straight-up write his accent because I think that would end up looking way over the top, but I also don't want to write him as speaking Standard English, because he isn't and I fear that would be whitewashing the character.
It's about 9500 words right now. There's one NC-17 scene, nothing that would require a warning though, just, yanno, smut. There is one scene where Pudge's English suddenly seems a lot better; this is a scene with him and his wife, I would ask the reader to assume that they are speaking Spanish together (if this also doesn't work for you, please let me know!).
Someone (or several someones) want to take a crack at it? Of course any other beta-y thoughts you had on the characters, story, writing, etc. would be deeply appreciated, but it's the conversations specifically that I need someone to concentrate on.
The main character is Pudge Rodriguez, and I'm a little concerned about his conversational (not internal) voice. Pudge is canonically semi-fluent in English. I would say that he has an excellent understanding of conversational English and a moderate-to-good handle on speaking it-- he has a very thick accent and a tendency to drop plurals and revert to present tense, but he has almost no vocab issues and can respond without hesitation in conversation. He'll give interviews in person and only occasionally goes through a translator, usually for more official statements. He definitely doesn't need or use a translator around the clubhouse. I would say, just to reference some guys I've written relatively recently, that his command of English is worse than Jorge Posada's, but better than, say, Daisuke Matsuzaka's.
So what I would like someone to do is go through what I've got so far with a critical eye for Pudge's conversations with the other characters. Does he 'sound' OK? I don't really want to try to straight-up write his accent because I think that would end up looking way over the top, but I also don't want to write him as speaking Standard English, because he isn't and I fear that would be whitewashing the character.
It's about 9500 words right now. There's one NC-17 scene, nothing that would require a warning though, just, yanno, smut. There is one scene where Pudge's English suddenly seems a lot better; this is a scene with him and his wife, I would ask the reader to assume that they are speaking Spanish together (if this also doesn't work for you, please let me know!).
Someone (or several someones) want to take a crack at it? Of course any other beta-y thoughts you had on the characters, story, writing, etc. would be deeply appreciated, but it's the conversations specifically that I need someone to concentrate on.
Title: Someone Else's Tragedy
By:![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
estelofimladris
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness
Rating: PG13, I guess
Spoilers: Children of Earth
Summary: While witnessing an accident, Jack reflects on the events of Children of Earth and how the Doctor, his hero, never came.
Notes: I'm not sure what to think of this one. Its rather dark and a very different perspective than I would normally take with Jack, but it just sorta came out. Please r/r! Thanks!
( Fire. )
By:
estelofimladrisCharacters: Captain Jack Harkness
Rating: PG13, I guess
Spoilers: Children of Earth
Summary: While witnessing an accident, Jack reflects on the events of Children of Earth and how the Doctor, his hero, never came.
Notes: I'm not sure what to think of this one. Its rather dark and a very different perspective than I would normally take with Jack, but it just sorta came out. Please r/r! Thanks!
( Fire. )
I work in a drug store.
Dear customers,
We're happy to provide baskets for you to use to make shopping easier. However, when you are finished with them, they do not go:
-on the counter
-in front of the counter
-in the aisles
-on top of the carts in the cart return
-right by the gate that we use to get to the registers (I love tripping over them. Really.)
-the Tastykake display (seriously, what did the Tastykakes do to you, besides provide you with delicious awesomeness?)
They go where you picked them up - in the vestibule, in the little contraption that says "Baskets for your shopping convenience."
Yours,
Nebs
Dear customers,
We're happy to provide baskets for you to use to make shopping easier. However, when you are finished with them, they do not go:
-on the counter
-in front of the counter
-in the aisles
-on top of the carts in the cart return
-right by the gate that we use to get to the registers (I love tripping over them. Really.)
-the Tastykake display (seriously, what did the Tastykakes do to you, besides provide you with delicious awesomeness?)
They go where you picked them up - in the vestibule, in the little contraption that says "Baskets for your shopping convenience."
Yours,
Nebs