I just woke up! Not having to get up at 5AM to go to work totally rules.

Scary-Crayon update coming soon! It's gonna rock! STAY TUNED!

...how one minute you'll have a customer beaming at you and enthusiastically praising your customer service and then, the next minute, a customer will be snarling curses at you and swearing never to set foot in the store again until Hell freezes over.

Wow. I know I've dissed Tom Wolfe on the site before and even mentioned him in How to write a 50,000 word novel in a month, but I had no idea just how bad I Am Charlotte Simmons was in this respect. I mean, I skimmed the novel at work and was left cringing, but the passages in this article just drive my point home in HARDCORE fashion. For all of the cheap tricks I used to squeeze 50,000 words out of my novel, I don't think I ever used the same word four times in succession. Bloody bloody bloody bloody hell. (more...)

Seriously, it's freezing! A woman who came by the office to check out one of the computers shook my hand and said, "Cold hands, warm heart?" I just chuckled, but I was tempted to kill her, slice her belly open, and curl up inside her carcass for warmth. Yes, it's that bloody cold in here.

That's right, OpenOffice.org! My resume has been PDF'd! See? PDF'd!