I'm tougher than you, faster than you, better than you...I work in inhuman temperatures, and I like it that way. I don't have to sleep every day if there's work to be done now; you get the work done. Only got a couple hours' sleep last night, and you've got 18 more hours of work ahead of you. Good...You can sleep later...I bought into that mantle ( Read more... )

Hi, you're really here! I honestly didn't think you'd show up. I have this tendency to forget that people I know, like you, exist unless they're right in front of me. I also tend to go into my hidey hole a lot, so if somebody doesn't yank me out I'm liable to stay there. But wow...you're here! How are you ( Read more... )

And yes, I question my sanity every single day.

Yeah, well, it's another season of LJ Idol and I can talk a good game about not playing but we know I'm lying through my teeth

Seriously, we'll see how far I go with the madness that's my life right now.

I was the best dishwasher at culinary school. I was proud of that because I had the tightest system of anyone when it came to the deluge of pans, bowls, utensils, plates and spoons, measuring cups, the blade to the Robot-Coupe, that damn 20-quart stockpot. Put your stuff here, not there. Group all your shit together, especially the silverware. ( Read more... )

Breezy warm spring night, moon making shadows just beyond the bedroom window. Time? She shifts and looks at the clock, 12:41. He lays curled into her, his breath warm and slow against the crick of her shoulder. She closes her eyes ( Read more... )

“Corey? Corey! What are you doing?”

“Oh, Jules, you gotta see this. Watch. You take a cotton ball, pull it apart, squeeze both of them like so to get to smaller compact balls, soak one in a capful of your nail polish remover, but wait, wait, you gotta see this --”

SOUND: Click of lighter and immediate whoosh.“Look, it's just like the YouTube, ( Read more... )

There you are in the middle of a ten-day work week. You keep getting called in because coworkers keep banging out and you chase money so saying no isn't an option. Your schedule is all over the place thanks to their absences: Is it really 6:30PM, Mr. Time Clock? You mentally calculate making/eating dinner (1 hour minimum), feeding and walking ( Read more... )

The only house - a cottage, really - Deb and Jeff could afford squatted on a winding road with a small beach which followed the shipyard's shore ( Read more... )

In those days there were smocks, not aprons, hairnets, not caps, the oven a long hole in the wall where shelves revolved over flame. My second day, Shelly introducing me to cookies. “What's your name again? Oh, that's right, I should've remembered. OK, see how they're set up, six across, four down? Don't pick up each one individually. Grab ( Read more... )

There's this guy, Ted, who recently transferred into our department here at work. Nobody knows anything about him other than he was in Logistics, which is in the other building ( Read more... )