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Lateshift's totally inappropriate at the office.

Secret Bat-Fairies
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07:53 / 21.12.07

It's late, and I'm watching the Office with the Accomplice.

Everyone? Decadent?

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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08:14 / 21.12.07

DD, reporting for duty (and watching The Simpsons).

Still pretending like I'll any minute now start the website work.

Secret Bat-Fairies
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08:26 / 21.12.07

What's the website, DD?

We're onto Project Catwalk, I think, or something else. Bunch of middle-aged sailors yammering at each other around a table with neon going in the background. The Accomplice claims they're crab fishermen. They might be related to Kelly Osbourne, I'm not sure.

Distant cousins?

Are you still with the grandparentals?

08:30 / 21.12.07

I am making tamales. It's something that once started, you can't stop till it's finished. I swear, it's the most commitment I have ever shown to anything in my entire life.

I really, really love tamales. Really.

When I first tasted tamales it was like a craving I had had my entire life was suddenly satisfied. Ahhhh....I am test tasting my first one right now. This is the first time I have made them on my own without the expertise of my Honduran amigo. I think she will be proud.

How's everyone else doing? Lateshift still on?

Secret Bat-Fairies
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08:33 / 21.12.07

I'm recovering from somebody yanking two of my wisdom teeth out of my head yesterday, but I'm doing all right. Will feel better tomorrow when I can zip downtown and grab some comics.

You know, I don't think I've ever eaten tamales before, Papess.

Whoa, it's weird calling you Papess now. Suitnames flow like sands through the hourglass....

08:39 / 21.12.07

Ouch! Wisdom teeth! I am not looking forward to having mine yanked with all the horror stories I have heard.

Tamales rock. If you ever get the chance to try them, do. There are different kinds, like the Mexican ones are diffent from the Honduran tamales. I think El Salvador and Guatemala, Cuba and Guyana, all have variations.

Papess does remind me a bit of Papers...in name only, however.

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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08:39 / 21.12.07

Still on-visit. I've been suckered into slapping together a website that is, decidedly, not worksafe. It's a favor, which means no pay, but it's kind of a so we never have to work together again, I'm fulfilling all I ever owe you and more favor. Text and cheapo html.

It is kinda fun to work on NSFW material for work, though. Yes, I'm like twelve years old.

Now I want tamales.

Secret Bat-Fairies
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08:42 / 21.12.07

Will there be lots of poopy jokes on this NSFWsite?

My wisdom teeth really weren't that bad, Papess, and everyone's reaction is different. They only froze my mouth rather than any kind of full-scale anaesthesia; but I only had my top two out. When do you have to get yours done?

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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08:44 / 21.12.07

If it makes you feel any better about it, my extractions have been almost universally super-easy on my end. I tended to not even need the take-home painkillers.

So there is some hope.

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
(prev. Decadent Daytripper in Love)

08:48 / 21.12.07

No poopy jokes. But have you ever tried to write captions for porn pics that aren't, um, mean?

(Yes, I was told the first-draft text for the pages was 'too nice.' It might help if I didn't know at least one of the women in the pictures, but, even if they were completely unknown to me, well, mean is mean is mean. Also, I'm not allowed to use 'ZOWWEEE!' as a caption.)

And people sometimes wonder why I dislike owing anyone favors.

08:55 / 21.12.07

I am glad there is hope. Mine haven't fully come in but i THINK there may be complications.

Decadent and Sentence, you are both invited for tamales if you happen to be around the neighbourhood ever.

Funny porn quips? What heck are you up to, Deca?

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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09:06 / 21.12.07

I have been convinced to put together a website o' porn - sorry, no, it's not porn, it's 'tasteful adult entertainment' - for an old acquaintance. Someone who once, in the past, earned their own law: Always work for X, because he always pays and it'll never see distribution. That law's now invalidated and old favors are being called in so that I'm supposed to arrange pics, establish links, and so forth until the site looks passable. And supply text in terms of captions, catchy slogans, and hypothetically a steady inference that painful things will be happening to the models any minute now, for your presumed het male asshole pleasure. I think I'll just skip over that last bit, like mumbling offensive words in a song.

I'll consider it a success if I can stop myself from making fun of the target audience, but still, y'know, actually make fun of the target audience a bit. And then I officially retire from this sort of thing.

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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09:23 / 21.12.07

Ack! I killed the shift.

And it was so young, so full of promise and hope.

People, shift! or I have to start working again.

09:41 / 21.12.07

I am still up. I wish I was sleeping, but the shrimp tamales have to get done. Cooking for a party of sixty is mind-blowing.

Maybe I am fried, but I don't think I understand, Deca. Could you provide a brief example of your comedic stylin'?

Dcdnt Dytrppr n Lv
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10:03 / 21.12.07

To give a slight example, without getting annoyingly graphic here, I've decided to run with some narrative intertextuality, so a page of two girls (who are, according to the notes I have here, supposed to only be together because there isn't a guy present) have just broken up with their boyfriends, who happen to have the same name as the two guys in, coincidentally, another set focusing on three guys, despite the name of the site, et cet., being all different and supposedly separate. And the captions build as people are introduced, so there's a sexy plumber... and then, wow, a sexy locksmith... and suddenly a guy in a black suit at the door, asking if they want to talk about Jesus.

If I can't do it right, I'll do it ridiculously. With biblethumpers.