.31o x yeah, obsessed again
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karriezaiOkay few things I wanna cover, better list them first because when I get into one I might forget the others.
* Summer class
* Extreme work suckage
* How writing goes
* Another urge to make a website
School is easy. Basically I had my first summer class this morning. It's small. The teacher has the craziest chalk board writing--by that I mean that she writes fast as hell, but it's all very neat and straight, the letters bold and easy to read. The class is going to be easy--it's like geometric concepts up through 8th grade with an emphasis on ways of teaching them. Which is nice. I'm only concerned about getting bored or deciding I can afford to miss too many classes.
Also, since I'm in summer classes, I can go to the gym! I'll have to make use of that. I've been seriously slacking lately.
Saturday I was scheduled as a double. It was excruciatingly slow in the morning; busy outside because of the bike wash, but almost no one on the inside. Then shift change comes around and we realize that there were five doubles scheduled on a seven floor, meaning two doubles would have to stay all night. I decided right then that if I had to stay all night, I'd quit. I'd stay; I didn't want to screw over the other girls because it's not their fault. But I'd quit.
To make matters worse, one of the two scheduled night girls didn't show up. He still only kept two doubles; there was a trainee there, so he counted her as one of the four closers, where he wasn't going to before.
He cut the three doubles who got to go home around 9:30 or 10. (Another messed up thing: at other Hooters, officially scheduled doubles get priority for going home first, where pick-up doubles don't. The two doubles who stayed? The only officially scheduled doubles. I count Steph as officially scheduled because she agreed to stay for the officially scheduled double, Amanda, because she felt ill. I think that deserves being counted as officially scheduled. Anyway, two of the other doubles only did the bike wash that morning and they were still counted as doubles. They didn't even have to wash bikes! Like the bikers would risk letting them mess the bikes up. They just stood around looking pretty.)
That was a long aside. Anyway, after he sent the other three doubles home, we got this huge rush. Instead of making a three floor for the three girls actually working tables, he put up a four floor and gave me two sections. Well, I couldn't handle it. It got too busy. I had two large parties and two smaller ones, plus other tables on the side. I ended up crying on the floor. Most of my tables felt badly for me and still tipped, even if it wasn't a great tip (understandable, I couldn't give good service, there was just too much going on). Only one table got pissed and didn't tip at all. I'm angry about it, but at the same time, it's kind of like... "Oh well, they're assholes. It'll come back to them in the end." I apologized to them several times and explained how busy it was, but they just said, "That's not my problem."
So I told Shawn, the night manager, that I was quitting. And he told me that he didn't want me to. Told me I'm a valued member of the team, told me that Jordan looked like he was going to work toward being less of an asshole because the manager who taught him everything he knows finally got canned because of his way of handling things. He asked me to at least think about it some more before deciding. I agreed to, but only because I haven't found a job yet. I intend to look harder. And, realistically, a night that bad probably won't happen again. My shifts might suck the normal amount, but not like that. I did put up swap requests for my Friday and Saturday night though. If they get picked up I'll only work Saturday morning. I doubt they'll get picked up but it's worth a shot.
So yeah. Saturday I worked 16 hours, opened and closed, cried on the floor... I made $245, but that was not enough to make up for all the shit. Steph made nearly $300 and felt the same way--not worth it--even when she was decidedly less upset than me; she only had a single section of tables, even helped pick up a few of mine, though she was extremely busy as well.
I so need another job.
I got through pretty much everything for Somnion. I haven't posted it here yet, though. It's fairly rough but still gives me a better idea of my world--what the buildings are like, the governments, the coinage, all stuff I'd kind of glazed over in the writing because I wasn't sure how I wanted to do it.
Still working on Eysuria. There's so much more there, and I know even less about it, so I've slowed down quite a bit. But I've gotten a lot of stuff down for World's End, and nearly all of the races are down, and I've come up with some great names where I was lacking before.
I went through my notebook from my second semester of college and read a lot of old ideas I'd forgotten. Pretty exciting. I fell right back into the state I was in while writing, super excited about these short story ideas and more. Which is great, although it does give me yet more ideas to falter back and forth between. Meh.
Also had writing community ideas in that notebook--
So I still have![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
wisereaders up, although I probably won't pursue it. I had prosecamp and proseclinic but I deleted them when I made wisereaders; kind of a shame because I was going through the ideas I'd written down for them and they were good ones.
I've had so many ideas. I want to combine them, really. I have the forum I made for a multi-world roleplay site; I would have pursued it if Morgan had been interested, but she wasn't that into it, so I let it drop. It's here. As of posting this it's still set up for the multi-world roleplay, but I'd change it for the idea I'm sort of cautiously playing with now.
The idea is... the name would be Stories. It would be largely a writing community, but I would incorporate a roleplaying section as well as something for other forms of art.
I would incorporate the wise readers idea just as a small part of the finding a beta reader section or something like that--just to give an idea of one way to look at others' writing.
My prosecamp and proseclinic ideas were for a double-sided community. One place for writing challenges, one for critique by members, writing advice, and guides. Prosecamp would have been challenges; each month there would be one challenge a week based on some overarching monthly theme. One challenge would revolve around character, one plot, and one setting/worldbuilding--with one random one, probably the first one. Each week there would be a winner, and then either a monthly winner would be chosen based on all the challenge responses put together, or there would be a separate monthly challenge. Or both, I mean, if we wanted.
Whether it would be just original or incorporate fandom... I mean, I'd probably have to include fandom. There are so many fandom writers, and then there are people like me who are more comfortable posting fanfiction than original fiction for obvious reasons.
So tempted. I've just stopped doing stuff like that in the last year or so because it always tanks and I'm tired of working so hard on something just to abandon it. Sometimes I get bored... other times I'm super into it, but I can't get anyone else interested, so I leave off due to lack of members. The ironic thing about that one is I'll leave, go back a month later, I find that random people have joined in my absence. Lame.
Um so yeah. Danny's nearly done listening to Mistborn. The first one, that is. It's exciting. He didn't like it much at first, and he still thinks it's kind of slow I think, but he really likes the characters now. He said if we can find the other two to download, he'll listen to them too.
He came to visit me on my crap work night. I really appreciated it. He can be so sweet. And he brought Dennis and Heather, and Dennis tipped me $20 on a $30 bill, which was also really sweet and made me so appreciative of our roommates. We have our issues at times but we're all really great people.
* Summer class
* Extreme work suckage
* How writing goes
* Another urge to make a website
School is easy. Basically I had my first summer class this morning. It's small. The teacher has the craziest chalk board writing--by that I mean that she writes fast as hell, but it's all very neat and straight, the letters bold and easy to read. The class is going to be easy--it's like geometric concepts up through 8th grade with an emphasis on ways of teaching them. Which is nice. I'm only concerned about getting bored or deciding I can afford to miss too many classes.
Also, since I'm in summer classes, I can go to the gym! I'll have to make use of that. I've been seriously slacking lately.
Saturday I was scheduled as a double. It was excruciatingly slow in the morning; busy outside because of the bike wash, but almost no one on the inside. Then shift change comes around and we realize that there were five doubles scheduled on a seven floor, meaning two doubles would have to stay all night. I decided right then that if I had to stay all night, I'd quit. I'd stay; I didn't want to screw over the other girls because it's not their fault. But I'd quit.
To make matters worse, one of the two scheduled night girls didn't show up. He still only kept two doubles; there was a trainee there, so he counted her as one of the four closers, where he wasn't going to before.
He cut the three doubles who got to go home around 9:30 or 10. (Another messed up thing: at other Hooters, officially scheduled doubles get priority for going home first, where pick-up doubles don't. The two doubles who stayed? The only officially scheduled doubles. I count Steph as officially scheduled because she agreed to stay for the officially scheduled double, Amanda, because she felt ill. I think that deserves being counted as officially scheduled. Anyway, two of the other doubles only did the bike wash that morning and they were still counted as doubles. They didn't even have to wash bikes! Like the bikers would risk letting them mess the bikes up. They just stood around looking pretty.)
That was a long aside. Anyway, after he sent the other three doubles home, we got this huge rush. Instead of making a three floor for the three girls actually working tables, he put up a four floor and gave me two sections. Well, I couldn't handle it. It got too busy. I had two large parties and two smaller ones, plus other tables on the side. I ended up crying on the floor. Most of my tables felt badly for me and still tipped, even if it wasn't a great tip (understandable, I couldn't give good service, there was just too much going on). Only one table got pissed and didn't tip at all. I'm angry about it, but at the same time, it's kind of like... "Oh well, they're assholes. It'll come back to them in the end." I apologized to them several times and explained how busy it was, but they just said, "That's not my problem."
So I told Shawn, the night manager, that I was quitting. And he told me that he didn't want me to. Told me I'm a valued member of the team, told me that Jordan looked like he was going to work toward being less of an asshole because the manager who taught him everything he knows finally got canned because of his way of handling things. He asked me to at least think about it some more before deciding. I agreed to, but only because I haven't found a job yet. I intend to look harder. And, realistically, a night that bad probably won't happen again. My shifts might suck the normal amount, but not like that. I did put up swap requests for my Friday and Saturday night though. If they get picked up I'll only work Saturday morning. I doubt they'll get picked up but it's worth a shot.
So yeah. Saturday I worked 16 hours, opened and closed, cried on the floor... I made $245, but that was not enough to make up for all the shit. Steph made nearly $300 and felt the same way--not worth it--even when she was decidedly less upset than me; she only had a single section of tables, even helped pick up a few of mine, though she was extremely busy as well.
I so need another job.
I got through pretty much everything for Somnion. I haven't posted it here yet, though. It's fairly rough but still gives me a better idea of my world--what the buildings are like, the governments, the coinage, all stuff I'd kind of glazed over in the writing because I wasn't sure how I wanted to do it.
Still working on Eysuria. There's so much more there, and I know even less about it, so I've slowed down quite a bit. But I've gotten a lot of stuff down for World's End, and nearly all of the races are down, and I've come up with some great names where I was lacking before.
I went through my notebook from my second semester of college and read a lot of old ideas I'd forgotten. Pretty exciting. I fell right back into the state I was in while writing, super excited about these short story ideas and more. Which is great, although it does give me yet more ideas to falter back and forth between. Meh.
Also had writing community ideas in that notebook--
So I still have
wisereaders up, although I probably won't pursue it. I had prosecamp and proseclinic but I deleted them when I made wisereaders; kind of a shame because I was going through the ideas I'd written down for them and they were good ones.I've had so many ideas. I want to combine them, really. I have the forum I made for a multi-world roleplay site; I would have pursued it if Morgan had been interested, but she wasn't that into it, so I let it drop. It's here. As of posting this it's still set up for the multi-world roleplay, but I'd change it for the idea I'm sort of cautiously playing with now.
The idea is... the name would be Stories. It would be largely a writing community, but I would incorporate a roleplaying section as well as something for other forms of art.
I would incorporate the wise readers idea just as a small part of the finding a beta reader section or something like that--just to give an idea of one way to look at others' writing.
My prosecamp and proseclinic ideas were for a double-sided community. One place for writing challenges, one for critique by members, writing advice, and guides. Prosecamp would have been challenges; each month there would be one challenge a week based on some overarching monthly theme. One challenge would revolve around character, one plot, and one setting/worldbuilding--with one random one, probably the first one. Each week there would be a winner, and then either a monthly winner would be chosen based on all the challenge responses put together, or there would be a separate monthly challenge. Or both, I mean, if we wanted.
Whether it would be just original or incorporate fandom... I mean, I'd probably have to include fandom. There are so many fandom writers, and then there are people like me who are more comfortable posting fanfiction than original fiction for obvious reasons.
So tempted. I've just stopped doing stuff like that in the last year or so because it always tanks and I'm tired of working so hard on something just to abandon it. Sometimes I get bored... other times I'm super into it, but I can't get anyone else interested, so I leave off due to lack of members. The ironic thing about that one is I'll leave, go back a month later, I find that random people have joined in my absence. Lame.
Um so yeah. Danny's nearly done listening to Mistborn. The first one, that is. It's exciting. He didn't like it much at first, and he still thinks it's kind of slow I think, but he really likes the characters now. He said if we can find the other two to download, he'll listen to them too.
He came to visit me on my crap work night. I really appreciated it. He can be so sweet. And he brought Dennis and Heather, and Dennis tipped me $20 on a $30 bill, which was also really sweet and made me so appreciative of our roommates. We have our issues at times but we're all really great people.
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3/6/09 17:43 (UTC)As for the story communities -- I'm in if you set one up. Sounds like a lot of fun. I actually have been in contact with a business guy who was looking at writing communities for amateur writers. I'll keep you updated on what he's doing.
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3/6/09 20:27 (UTC)I'm still just playing around with it, but I do have one mostly set up. I haven't adjusted the layout much, so there are boxes on the side that would later have content in them but right now only say "stuff goes here" or whatever, but the actual forums are mostly up and running. I could use any advice you have to give, actually. There's... I think one forum you wouldn't be able to see at all as a guest, but the rest is pretty much what you see is what you get at the moment. And if you want to create an account so you can poke around I'll validate you. But I'm not committed to running the thing yet. I'm just poking at it, seeing what I come up with.
http://stories.ipbfree.com