3 things: Shakespeare, writing, and work
Oct. 27th, 2012 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. A thought that struck me on my way to work this morning: Iago (from Shakespeare's Othello) as precursor of modern internet trolls. Discuss similarities and differences, paying particular attention to goals, motives, methodology, and misogynistic tendencies.
*silly*
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2. Jade/Dave/Terezi crossdressing porn is now at 7,150 words. Jade and Terezi are making out a little -- unexpected, but also good, because that was the weakest leg of the triangle in my mind and I want this to be a proper triad, not two separate het relationships with Dave at the hinge. Plus any excuse to make trolls be a little bit alien is a good one. (Incidentally, I am using the same troll anatomy here as I used in "Milk and Honey" and also "The Fire in Which We Burn," because it's more interesting if the two species don't match up very well at all and have to work around the differences.)
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3. I don't know if it was the weather or just the approach of the weekend, but today was weirdly busy at the smoke shop. A fair amount of that was instant lottery tickets rather than anything with a decent profit margin, but even so, our lottery customers had been largely absent earlier in the week, so their return is (while annoying) a welcome development.
We also received the normal Friday Elmira Distributing delivery, plus deliveries from Gesty (tobacco accessories) and J&R Santa Clara (cigars). In two out of three cases, we were billed for items that were not in the deliveries, so I had to call the companies and report the discrepancy. That is always a pain. Also I was working with MS and BW, who continue to not get along much at all -- plus MS has been starting on Zoloft the past few weeks and has been experiencing some unfortunate side effects, so she was understandably not in the best shape or mood. So it was a somewhat wearing day all around.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Of course, tomorrow I am working 9am-5pm, so I really ought to get to bed soon. (I hate morning shifts. There is a reason I am usually the closer, not the opener! But I suppose in this particular case it's a reasonable trade-off for having time to catch a bus to the grocery store and back once my shift ends, which I could not do if I were stuck downtown until after 9pm. Bus schedules do assume the average rider keeps a diurnal schedule, after all.)
*silly*
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2. Jade/Dave/Terezi crossdressing porn is now at 7,150 words. Jade and Terezi are making out a little -- unexpected, but also good, because that was the weakest leg of the triangle in my mind and I want this to be a proper triad, not two separate het relationships with Dave at the hinge. Plus any excuse to make trolls be a little bit alien is a good one. (Incidentally, I am using the same troll anatomy here as I used in "Milk and Honey" and also "The Fire in Which We Burn," because it's more interesting if the two species don't match up very well at all and have to work around the differences.)
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3. I don't know if it was the weather or just the approach of the weekend, but today was weirdly busy at the smoke shop. A fair amount of that was instant lottery tickets rather than anything with a decent profit margin, but even so, our lottery customers had been largely absent earlier in the week, so their return is (while annoying) a welcome development.
We also received the normal Friday Elmira Distributing delivery, plus deliveries from Gesty (tobacco accessories) and J&R Santa Clara (cigars). In two out of three cases, we were billed for items that were not in the deliveries, so I had to call the companies and report the discrepancy. That is always a pain. Also I was working with MS and BW, who continue to not get along much at all -- plus MS has been starting on Zoloft the past few weeks and has been experiencing some unfortunate side effects, so she was understandably not in the best shape or mood. So it was a somewhat wearing day all around.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Of course, tomorrow I am working 9am-5pm, so I really ought to get to bed soon. (I hate morning shifts. There is a reason I am usually the closer, not the opener! But I suppose in this particular case it's a reasonable trade-off for having time to catch a bus to the grocery store and back once my shift ends, which I could not do if I were stuck downtown until after 9pm. Bus schedules do assume the average rider keeps a diurnal schedule, after all.)
