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1. Work Bites:

Boss comes up to me as I'm busily working away, picks up my hand, I glance up at him, he writes in ink on my palm and points at it. I stare at the blue ink (which took two days to come off by the way) that states in bold letters - "time sheet". In my defense - I got in at 8, it was 9 am, and I was busy.

I wonder later, when a memo comes around about workplace violence, if this qualifies? Most likely not, since the Momster burst out laughing when I told her about it over the phone.

Me: Hello.
Co-Worker: You can speak.
Me: What?
Co-Worker: You actually can speak, you never talk.
Me (bewildered, guessing she's probably pissed because she said something to me and I was oblivious to it): okay, I tend to live in my head. And to focus on the multiple projects I'm doing, I shut everything else out...it's not personal. People call me aloof - but I'm just in the ...
Co-worker: Oh...I get it, you're in the zone?
Me: Yep. It's not meant to be rude, I just am not aware...I'm living in my head.

Sigh. Being an introvert in an extrovert world is a pain in the buttocks.( Read more... )

2. Been thinking about story tropes that pull at me...lately I've an itch that I can't scratch in this regard, so have been reading a seemingly endless array of badly written contemporary romance novels - to the point that I'm contemplating writing my own or rewriting my third finished novel ( insane tangent about writing )

Anywho...tropes that grab me in the romance genre - or itch can't be scratched.

( ten tropes )