whyyyy money. and a meme.

You know what sucks? When you get done with work at 2:30am (12 hours after you started being on your feet non-stop) and start doing your checkout and start realizing that somewhere, something's gone terribly wrong. As far as we could tell, it was nothing I did, and I'm pretty sure I know who fucked it up, but I walked out with NINE DOLLARS in cash tips after a VERY busy night, knowing I made more than that in tip off my last tab alone, and I really was having trouble not just bursting into tears. I'll probably get some of it back once our manager sorts things out, but a lot of I just won't, because there's not going to be a way to account for it.

So I'm going to go make myself a drink and take a shower and eat birthday cake (courtesy of my dad turning 61) for dinner.

And also do a meme:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

From mine and Katie's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol fic, which is at almost 12k words, thanks to being largely fueled by our frustration with the fandom to provide lots of clever spy shenanigans or awesome team interactions. So we're writing our own.

"[...] .But, it’s just-- Ethan was a big part of why I became a field agent in the first place. After the thing in Shanghai with Julia, I just kept thinking, how what I was doing wasn’t just on the computer or in the lab, that it was people’s lives, and I’d known that before but it hadn’t been real like that, you know?”

Will nodded, thinking about the first time he’d run up against it, the feeling of living something he’d only read reports about before. He’d read the report on Shanghai, as well as Ethan’s personal statements about Benji’s “invaluable assistance and integrity” in an operation that neutralized a highly-placed traitor and saved an innocent civilian life.

“I didn’t know that was why you started training for the field,” he said.

“Well, basically. I hadn’t thought about it before then. [...]"

I'm kind of sad this missed the best parts of this conversation, and instead hits the exposition paragraph I am plan to fix, but damn is it fun writing Benji dialogue. ♥