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inmyriadbits ([personal profile] inmyriadbits) wrote2012-06-09 03:55 am

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. ♥

[identity profile] spatz.livejournal.com 2012-06-09 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs* Dude, that is bullshit. I am a witness to your awesomeness.

♥ You really did miss the best parts of that scene! Though I like the quote from Ethan, aww. Ahaha, I just read down and lol'd at the "I don't know, what does Ethan Hunt do on the internet?” bit which I don't think I'd seen before. *dies*

[identity profile] inmyriadbits.livejournal.com 2012-06-10 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs back* It's okay; it looks like it should all be fixed pretty easily once my manager can get to the receipts on Monday. *shrugs* It's not like I'm starving or homeless without it, or anything. :)

I know! It's kinda weird how that turned out. And haha, how did you miss that line? But to be honest, I'm really not sure what Ethan gets up to on the internet when he's not trying to contact mysterious arms dealers via obscure Bible quotations. It could be anything. I don't blame Benji for wondering!
celli: a woman and a man holding hands, captioned "i treasure" (awesome!)

[personal profile] celli 2012-06-10 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
...hello. I wish to subscribe to all your newsletters.

[identity profile] inmyriadbits.livejournal.com 2012-06-10 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
:D And I haven't even quoted anything from the amnesia/handcuffed-together action sequence yet....

[identity profile] gingerwall.livejournal.com 2012-06-11 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
*mega-hugs*

You seem like you are handling that situation way better than I would have, probably by going into a Hulk-like rage and then melting into a puddle of tears and person-goo.

[identity profile] inmyriadbits.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I was too tired to Hulk out, but there were a few stress-tears before I went all Vulcan on that nonsense. :)