Oops. I've been posting on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, but I never managed to type up something over here on Dreamwidth/LiveJournal. I should probably fix that, huh ( Read more... )

I'm sure some of you have already seen this before, but I just stumbled across it earlier today. There's an abandoned webcomic out there called A Year In Waiting.

To quote the "about" section: These hastily-sketched comics tell the story of the 13 months I spent as a waitress. Some are funny, some are horrifying; all are true to the best of my ( Read more... )

I've officially been at the new job for over six months now. And they haven't fired me or anything. \o ( Read more... )

As pretty much everyone on LiveJournal has probably noticed by now, they've made some changes to the cut tags. Which, fine, it's another case of "if it's not broken, why fix it?" that they seem to do so well with, but it's not that big a deal, right? Right? Well, as long as you're not one of the many (many, many, many) people whose browsers are ( Read more... )

I've had a couple of questions in some of my recent work-related posts, so I thought that I'd throw together another quick post for those of you who've never been lucky enough to work in the restaurant business. Hopefully this will be of interest to at least some of you.

( Some helpful hints and information. )

Seen on Not Always Right:
(Retail | Atlanta, GA, USA)

Me: "Hi, how can help you today?"
Customer: "Are you a lesbian!?"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Customer: "You've got real short hair. I heard that women with short hair are lesbians."
Me: "So, was there anything I could help you with?"
Customer: "You can answer my question! Are you a lesbian or not?!"
Me: ( Read more... )

I ended up getting to go home early (as in, ten minutes after the dinner shift started) on Wednesday, and I've been off the last few days. While I haven't accomplished what I was hoping to get done on the fannish front (reading many back issues of Fables, Green Lantern, and Justice League International, as well as re-reading most of the current run ( Read more... )

Pretty much all the symptoms of the walking pneumonia have disappeared by now, save for the occasional hacking cough (mostly right before I'm supposed to take my meds for it). Oh, and - you know - the fact that I still can't hear very well out of my right ear ( Read more... )

Well, I made it back to Tennessee ( Read more... )

Since apparently a few people have missed my previous posts on the subject and were somewhat confused earlier...

Today was my last day working at the Restaurant of Doom™, because I turned in my notice. I'm in the process of packing up all my things because, at the end of next week, I'll be moving to Maryland - just outside of Washington D.C.