Here is the proverbial person you haven't seen in a long time ( Read more... )

Valerie; couch; tea; copy of Lysistrata.

Need we say more?

Valerie's behind the bar for a moment, tying her apron on and chalking her name up on the Specials board.

Your server is: Valerie

Then, emerging with her tray in hand, she starts her rounds around the bar proper. Waitress on duty; feel free to flag her down.

Valerie's claimed a table near the bar, notebook at one hand and tea at the other. While she waits for her interviewee, she's flipping idly through a copy of Macbeth.

[tinytag: assasins, paul varjack]

It always comes back to money ( Read more... )

Technically, Valerie's supposed to be on waitress duty tonight.

But she didn't sleep well last night -- not well at all -- and she's not exactly in the mood ( Read more... )

[In the staff hall:

With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends
Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears
Such hideous cries that, with the very noise,
I trembling wak'd, and for a season after
Could not believe but that I was in hell--
-Richard III, I.IV

Warnings for language and violence.]

[tinytag: thy kingdom come]

Your server is: Valerie

Waitress on duty; feel free to flag her down.

A year ago, bar time, there was the promise of more pleasant conversations in the future. Today, Sarah Jane can't imagine time being any more pleasant than her past week. Although she had been stuck in a hospital room, although her belly hurt horribly whenever the pain medication wore off, and although she couldn't see her husband and her ( Read more... )

Your server is: Valerie

Valerie chalks her name up on the board, dusts her hands on her apron, and heads out on her rounds. Waitress on duty; feel free to flag her down.