I do, in fact, want fries with my existential despair

[cleolinda]

Today: Spent the morning rereading one of my favorite Victorian source books (Inside the Victorian Home), paying particular attention to the food served at formal dinners and the means of serving it, which at the beginning of the century was à la francaise, and then (from France, ironically) à la russe. Then went out for a burger. As you do

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[cleolinda]

I laughed so hard when someone was giving Serious Writerly Advice and SPECIFICALLY pegged "dryly" and "grimly" as overused. Because maaaaaan, am I guilty of that. So I try to work on that now.

[particle_person]

Anne McCaffrey overuses "drolly."

[aranel13]

And 'facetiously'.

[dramaturgca]

This week wasn't a good writing week for anyone, I don't think. I know I spent three days staring at the blank screen that needs to be an MA essay draft in two and half weeks, utterly unable to type anything.

Also, on the subject of idiots at restaurants, I was at Edo (a teppan grill fast food thing here) about a month ago, I ordered my food, another guy ordered behind me, they did most of the prep on my order, I asked for extra sauce and the grill guy went "Nope, men first" and finished the man behind me's order before coming back to mine. I was flabbergasted.

[dramaturgca]

I was so shocked I literally could not get words to come out. Like... Really, did you just SAY that?

[cupcakery]

That is definitely an ex-fucking-scuse me moment.

[laurelin_kit]

Wow, that dude at Five Guys sounds like an incredible douche.

[cleolinda]

I KNOW RIGHT! It would have been annoying enough if he'd been all like, "Nah, I'm kidding, go on ahead." BUT HE DIDN'T! I seriously started to wonder if he was drunk. At 11:30 in the morning.

[laurelin_kit]

"YOU CAN GO AHEAD. YOU TWO. AND YOU, THE GIRL WHO HAD A CRAPPY WEEK, YOU CAN STAND BACK HERE. AWESOME. THIS IS PERFECT."

[cleolinda]

There is also the slight subtext of them being very pretty and me being much heavier.

On the other hand, there's the subtext of one of them having a small child and the other one being visibly pregnant, so... comes out in the wash, I guess.

[randomdiversion]

from totally the sidelines...steampunk=squee, vampires=squick.

[cleolinda]

Well, it's way more vampire than steampunk, so... oops.

[lylassandra]

If they don't sparkle, we're game. =P

[cleolinda]

Absolutely not. Moreover, I promise no anachronistic, self-conscious jokes about sparkling, either. Because we here at Cleolinda Industries are better than that.

[cupcakery]

Okay, has the jackass quotient seriously gone up this past week, or something? I saw a truly hideous occurrence on the bus when the bus driver wouldn't allow a pair of women with strollers on (while he called them 'girls') because an older man (yes, he would be considered 'elderly') didn't want to move three inches further back and take a seat on one of the non-fold-up benches. Seriously. It was three inches in space difference between the seats.

[dramaturgca]

I had an asshole bus driver yesterday! He wouldn't start the bus until my bag was "out of the aisle" (it wasn't in the aisle, it was between my feet) because "it's a busy bus" (less than 20 people the entire time I rode)

[keleri]

A streetcar driver refused to let me on the car before it pulled up 20 feet to the proper stop. In the intervening time it started raining and I got completely soaked.

On another occasion a streetcar driver made us all step in vomit because he couldn't stop 5 feet back for some reason.