Manny stirred the sweetened condensed milk into her so-called coffee. She was somewhat ashamed to use coffee crystals, and she never did it in front of guests, but it was cheap and fast. She really only cared that her coffee was cold and caffeinated. The pizza called to her, figuratively. She was pretty hungry at this point, but she held off a bit ( Read more... )

Manny waited. She was good at it. She'd be waiting for a long time. She'd wait longer. Okay, maybe it wasn't a long time, but it seemed like forever. Sooner or later the pizza would cool and she'd be able to eat it. Yes, thing were all going according to plan. Maybe she could make a beverage while waiting for the pizza to cool. She'd show them then ( Read more... )

Ah, the damn editor in my head ( Read more... )

There's a girl from a village, not too far from swampland. Her family has been farming there for generations. The story starts with a messenger arriving to announce the news from the University researchers that a Meteoroid is approaching and is going to collide with their landmass on whatever the planet they live on is called. The mages of the ( Read more... )

To be entirely frank, I was not entirely invested in getting the promotion. I figured I'd apply, see where it got me, and take the interview experience. I started working at Sierra Summit in October of 2000, it was my first real job. In early 2002, I applied to be a Blue Shirt (the student manager position). Part of the application process was a ( Read more... )

I don't like taking pills. I compromise on vitamins. Yes, they're pill shaped, but they're just nutritional supplements, they don't really do much of anything. I try not to take aspirin or Ibuprofen unless a headache is bad enough to entirely prevent me from functioning. However, I've run into another problem recently; my insomnia is getting worse ( Read more... )

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But I kind of wish I could dance as well as cookie monster.

There are seers. For a price, they can tell you about the future. It's not about profits, the material cost, and physical costs, of divination are steep. In the great days of the Universities, now mostly passed, the universities would fund their own prophecies (via donations from alumni, tuition from students, and the money earned from services ( Read more... )

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For 18 years I've had a song in my head. I've never heard it when I haven't been holding a trombone. I don't know what it sounds like if it isn't being performed by a 6th grade band, but quite frankly, I don't even remember what it sounds like even then. But when I'm walking, Dazon (From the Ballet of Fancy Free) is one of the songs I might just be ( Read more... )