Okay, a question for my fellow wisdom teeth surgery veterans: is your jaw supposed to start hurting six or seven days after the surgery takes place? Because that's what's going on with me, and it is damn frustrating to go back on the painkillers (even if it is only ibuprofen) now after I've been off them since Thursday. I have a checkup on Thursday, at least, so we can see what's going on there.

And Friday is my last day at woooooork homg

And I've had two pretty awesome shifts in a row. You'd better believe I'm knocking on wood for a third one tomorrow night.

I lurve you all and am off to find ice cream for my aching jaw. Have to supplement the painkillers somehow.

Where? Home Feelings? sore Theme? X-Play Similar? argh, job, waitressing

Work tonight was absolutely insane. Note to certain coworkers: if you're a ceiliac (or however you spell that) and have not been eating right to begin with and are highly allergic to most of the ingredients in energy drinks, please don't drink them. They'll make you sick enough to go home and leave your poor partner in the lurch and make me switch sections in the middle of the night, which is off-putting as hell. It isn't often that I see Derek, who is generally a pretty easygoing guy, go completely nuts like that. Then again, it isn't often Derek's section partner utterly abandons him right in the middle of Friday night rush. |D

It was a $60 night in patio/yellow, and Kelly handled me jumping the patio ship pretty well, though, so I shouldn't be complaining.

I'm having my first chai latte ever. It's made from a mix, because I'm desperate and Marianne was making them. I can see why orelle_peredhil is hooked on these things.

And finally, even though I know it's over in your time zone:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY nalina! ♥~

LOOK HAVE SOME SPARKLES AND CONTINUE BEING AWESOME PLEASE

I'm going to bed. |D

Where? Home Feelings? tired Theme? So What - Pink Similar? friends, job, waitressing

I was at work for seven hours last night. I was supposed to be cut first. SOMETHING IS WRONG THERE. ;;; I made a good deal of money and got home at eleven pm. Here's hoping the late return doesn't happen again tonight...knock wood.

Though seventy dollars in a shift ain't bad. |D

I've discovered I like having a constant schedule, which means for some reason that I am looking forward tto school, because at least then I know where I'll be at what time. Having everything up in the air during summer drives me nuts. |D We have family over now, we're having more family over on Sunday, we're having a good amount of guests (which means I'll be giving up my room, argh) in about a week or so, and the latest addition to my schedule is getting my wisdom teeth out this coming Wednesday, so I'll be incoherent and on House drugs (i.e. Vicodin) for a few days after that.

I still have to pick out a novel for Lit Theory. Can I just say I am bitterly disappointed at the lack of analytical criticism on Good Omens? Because that would have been perfect. As it is, now I'm looking at Life of Pi.

...and people wonder why I'm not active in RP. |D

Where? Home Feelings? busy Theme? Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi Similar? classes, college, family, job, waitressing

Called dual hiatus today, and of course am posting more than ever. Why does that always happen when I call hiatus?

DC shirts are getting marathoned on Sunday. That iron and I are going to be real good friends if I have my way about it.

Shift today was a bit disappointing - nobody wants to sit on the patio when it's hot outside, and today it was hot outside. Les (my manager) told me he watched a few hostesses try to lead parties out on the patio, and they'd hit the doorway and turn around, refusing to sit there. Basically, everyone else got utterly swamped and my partner and I were twiddling our thumbs going, "Tables please :D" And I get to do it all again tomorrow, twice!

Even better, Les asked me tonight if I'd be willing to pick up a Sunday shift this week, since evidently he's having trouble getting Sunday nights covered. Sunday is the one day a week I request off because of church and because it's family day. "Les, I got my stitches out on Wednesday. I worked a double that day, a double yesterday, dinner tonight, and a double tomorrow." That's seven shifts in four days. 8D

"...oh. Enjoy your Sunday." So now I have con prep time, yaaaaay~

...I have two paychecks to pick up from work. Why have I not done this yet.

Best Buy somehow decided today would be a good day to send me a $20 gift certificate. Sadly but not surprisingly, my first thought was, "I wonder if they still carry EBA." Ladies and gentlemen, I don't even have a DS. There's something wrong up here. XD

And (because I'm blathering anyway) I've discovered that I really don't eat well while I'm at home - at least not dinner. I'm terrible with fixing myself meals when I come home from work, we've hit a dry spot so far as leftovers go, there's not a lot that will make a quick meal (and like I said, I hate fixing meals as it is), and there's virtually no instant meals in the house: no ramen (because I'm the only one who eats it), no Lean Cuisine (which I practically live off at college but there's no room in the freezer here), no pot pies (no freezer room)...basically, I come home and eat cereal or various odds and ends. I either need to start eating at work (which costs moneys, bawww) or convince Mom to get something I can make while braindead and bone tired.

By the way. Blip.fm. Attack of the Show promotes it as a sort of musical Twitter that links to your actual Twitter, your LJ, and just about everything else. Anybody want to join up with me?

AND FINALLY. I know I'm a few hours past the cutoff, but I do have to say it because she's awesome:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY lynxgriffin!

Where? Home Feelings? tired Theme? It Had Better Be Tonight - Michael Buble Similar? comic con, eba, friends, home, job, rp, waitressing

So I leave for a double shift in five minutes. |D Getting out some thoughts before then.

Stitches are out, but wearing a bandaid at work still weirds out my coworkers. Felicia's a bit squeamish, I've discovered. XD

Probably calling hiatus tonight in both RPs - sporadic posting but no promises. Con prep really needs to happen now that I'm stitchless, and I have a double today, dinner tomorrow, double Saturday, lunch Monday. Tshirts and choreo need to happen, and they won't happen with all that going on. |D

In other news and total whiplash, I'm looking for a smaller RP to join in a few months once DC is over. I want plot, but I also would like a slice of life aspect...basically, is there a game out there that's a good fit for an Agent or two? Sarah and I are thinking ahead.

AND NOW IT IS TIME FOR WORK AND SO I LEAVE.

Where? Home Feelings? busy Theme? Run Away (The Escape Song) - Oingo Boingo Similar? comic con, job, rp, waitressing

Including my face, evidently. That was embarrassing. |D

...Let me back up.

I was having an incredible shift at work today - good pace, nice tables, whole nine yards - until I cleared that empanada plate. Brought it back to the dish pit, went to clean it off, and dropped it. It broke in half, ricocheted off the edge of the dish pit, and sliced my hand open.

My first reaction was to swear, run it under the faucet, and ask the hostess who just happened to be in the kitchen to please take chips to table twelve because I hadn't gotten there yet. At that point, I thought I'd still be at work.

One report to the manager, several phone calls, two hours, and four stitches later, I'm home with an enforced break until Thursday night at the earliest and a left hand wrapped in Coban. |D The cut's on the outside of my hand, about an inch long, but it bled like mad. Empanada plates are dangerous things, it seems. Typing will be slow for a while and pictures will be provided to the not squeamish upon request. :D

The blood on my face was spatter, by the way. Evidently I jerked my hand back when I got cut.

...so BEFORE the epic bloody mess that was my work shift today, I was thinking about RP - characters and my time constraints, mostly.

I did have a huge long list of pros and cons and thoughts and dramatic inner monologue, but that was before typing became time consuming and painful. :D So.

Basically, so far as Daisychain goes, I think I'm dropping Silver. I had his journal open for a good while last night and had a terrible time tagging with him, and it's been that way for a while. He's lost most of his CR, and I'm just having hell on wheels keeping him active. It's probably time to let him go. Stella, Guin, i'm sorry - he just didn't stick around for me.

That said, I've been bitten by the app bug and seeing how long it takes me to work up either an Aja Killian muse or a Foxx muse. So far, Foxx is winning, if only because she doesn't require a trip to the library.

On the Paixao front, I'm likely going to do a canon update for Rosette. It'll make her easier to play and give me a reason to jump start the character. Brainbreak always works so well for that. |D

As a final and random note, is anybody good at editing audio? Because I have a non-urgent favor to ask if you're willing. :3

Where? Home Feelings? Ow. >: Theme? Always Be My Baby - David Cook Similar? eba, job, paixao, project daisychain, rp, sonic, waitressing

I have five minutes before I'm technically supposed to be in bed and I still have not finished my glass of zin. Probably not gonna happen.

Work today was insane and I don't have the damndest clue as to why. It was absolutely dead during lunch and most of dinner, and then we got this pop from nowhere that lasted for a few hours. Given that yellow had already gone home, my partner and I wound up staying after red (the last cut section before closers go home) in order to do our sidework, yellow's sidework AGAIN (because we got tables in yellow section), and roll 100 silver apiece. Such is the woe of being in blue on a busy night.

I SAW TWO FIREWORKS ON THE WAY HOME. TWO. WHOO YEAH FOURTH OF JULY.

In other news, I've found out just why they're scheduling me so much. Evidently we rank servers based on an average of five criteria: PPA (how much we sell per person), GEM scores (how well we're scored on our online survey), Secret Shops (just what they sound like, probably getting phased out soon), Attitude (what it sounds like), and Reliability (what it- come on do I really need to say it). At the moment, I am tied for sixth place (technicall I'm in seventh because Amber Rose is before me alphabetically) out of thirty or forty servers. People with higher scores are obviously doing better and therefore get scheduled more.

I AM TOO GOOD AT MY JOB, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THIS IS WHY I NO LONGER HAVE FREE TIME. OR SLEEP.

Most of my tables tonight were pretty good, though, and I walked away with about $70 in tips on $500 in sales, which is a better percentage than I've been making lately. Also, I have tomorrow off. My goal is to get work done on DC shirts. |D

AND HERE'S THE BIGASS LIST OF STUFF TO DO BEFORE COMIC CON, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I NEED ONE FOR SOME REASON.

- Finish shirts
- EBA routine (cut song, finish choreo, practice, quit changing the choreo dammit it's fine the way it is)
- EBA costume (microphone, hat)
- Bad Horse Singer costume (everything but the vest, oi)
- Find out if any other Singers will be there. Possibly meet with them.
- Flonne costume (leotard, earrings, find out how long shipping takes)
- Schedule (find out what panels are there, figure out which ones to attend)
- Sleep, because that sure as hell won't happen at the con 8D

...Yeah this has gone on far too long. My zin is gone. It's bedtime.

...I really miss my paid account. Icooooooons where did you go?

Where? Home Feelings? tired Theme? Up on the Roof - The Drifters Similar? comic con, eba, job, todo list, waitressing

What the hell is in the water around here. I have no idea what happened or why, but a week ago just about everybody became a terrible tipper. We get a metric ton of verbal tips (high praise and ten percent of the tab) and a metric ton of people who are outright cheap. Fifteen and twenty percent tips are about unheard of.

And it's not just me, either. It's the whole restaurant. I should talk with servers at other restaurants, see if it's the same there.

I worked for six hours tonight and came home with $45. That's a bit more than 10% of my $427 in sales.

It's been $60 tips off $650 sales, $40 tips off $497 sales...and I'm not doing anything differently. I'm still making money, yes, but the amount of money I'm making is not proportionate to the amount of ass I'm busting making sure these tables are fed and happy. Needless to say, it's frustrating.

That, and I went in today on my day off because we were expecting a rush, and said rush never came...yeah. I work tomorrow and Tuesday too.

And then on Wednesday amorsinseramada comes down and life gets awesome. :D

In the meantime, I'm off to DC to go write some incredibly depressing stuff involving J. Why are all my muses so ridiculously headstrong, especially when they're in trouble...? |D

Where? Home Feelings? frustrated Similar? argh, eba, job, project daisychain, roommate, rp, waitressing

I figure I'll keep y'all in the loop in the five or so minutes I have before I crash out. XD

I don't have Wednesday off this week. It's weird, but I'll work with it (though it's in red section arrrrgh).

Saturday's double in purple made me go argh. It was less than productive, though it did net me some monies (though not enough for a double on a Saturday, really).

And one of the cooks asked me to hang out, which was...interesting. Not sure what I'm doing about that one yet.

I have fic that is poking around in my head. Oh, EBA, why have you taken over.

Paixao tags are going a loooooot faster than they used to. That's awesome in terms of the game, but giving me trouble in keeping up. Time to reevaluate, I think. |D

The Mythbusters marathon tonight was all sorts of awesome, though.

And I've discovered I love Wipeout. The show makes me lawl. XD Given that, I have a very important question for you all:



WHERE'S THE POLE?

Nothing in that show made me laugh harder than that chick, I swear. I think she made it all the way to the Wipeout Zone, too.

And speaking of crazy shows, MXC is on DVD. Do want. :D

I should get a paid account again. I miss my icons.

All that said, I would just like to say my Flist is absolutely awesome. :D And now it's bedtime.

Where? Home Feelings? complacent Similar? job, lawl, paixao, rp, tv, video, waitressing

I have discovered that the Monday night dinner rush is not unlike the Spanish Inquisition: unexpected.

It's also not unlike the non-Monty Python version: brutal, and with a sudden end.

Though I do wish I'd had a comfy chair.

And guys? Don't stiff your waitress, especially after she's busted her ass for you in a visibly busy restaurant. If you don't have enough money to tip, then please don't go out to eat - you'll be taking up tables and time we could use to actually make money for ourselves. We have to make a living too.

I had a table tonight - mom, dad, squalling small child - that kept inquiring how much everything was. When the tab came - $25.41 - they handed me a $25 gift card and admitted that they "hadn't expected there to be tax," so they "didn't have any cash." Instead of recommending they use a credit card - which I should have done, though I doubt they had one of those either - I covered the gorram $.41 myself (not sure if I was being "too nice" or just sleep deprived). Of course, I got no tip. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable restaurant behavior.

The other table that stiffed me...well, I have no idea why. They seemed pretty satisfied to me.

But! The night was not a bust. Other tables were considerate and patient (especially the table that asked me to break a $100 bill for a $35 tab) and several kitchen mistakes were made, so I got fed. We make some awesome chimichangas, I tell you what. The manager then told us all he was buying us beer, since we were half staffed (Monday night, remember) and we all kept our cool and did well. I forewent the beer - I was already tired and figured that was bad kismet when I was the one driving me home - and he bought me dessert instead, so now there is Kahlua Ice Cream Pie in the freezer for dessert tomorrow, which is my day off. Oh, yes, the night was not a bust at all.

Also, there is more EBA fic to be had - check en_ecrivant. Wonder if I should start putting these up on dA. Thoughts?

Where? Home Feelings? sleepy Similar? eba, job, waitressing, writing