this is part of the bit I’ve had to throw out.

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this is part of the bit I’ve had to throw out. it might get recycled but for now, as i set it aside, I just wanted to share these two tiny snippets. 

“This thing is really, really, a hunk of garbage,” Poe said, looking around in a state of unimpressedness so profound he was hanging onto the copilot’s chair for dear life.

“I know,” Rey said. “It should be fun. It always adds a certain element of spice to a journey if you’re never sure whether you’ll be abruptly exposed to hard vacuum at any particular point.”

“Hard vacuum is my favorite kind,” Poe said.

and

“I can fly anything,” Poe said, looking around the interior of the ship, “but that’s the kind of thing a man says to himself about cool shit, and never really examines when it comes to the actual hunks of junk that apparently still operate in this galaxy.”

“Don’t think I’m not still jealous that you got to fly a TIE fighter,” Rey said.

“Straight into the ground,” Poe said, giving her a jaunty finger-gun gesture, “and don’t you forget it.”

This morning there was another component to the beep!

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A video posted by @bomberqueen17 on Jan 22, 2016 at 5:55am PST

This morning there was another component to the beep! It’s faint, but it was perfectly in rhythm. Turns out it was the print dryer. Can you hear it? A fascinating little concert. (at Delaware Camera)

Man, who here remembers that time my boss told me I

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Man, who here remembers that time my boss told me I didn’t need any raises because I have a sugar daddy*? I haven’t had a raise since he decided that, and hadn’t in some time– four, five years now– and I just overheard a coworker (during an hour-long personal phone call) mention her income, which is nearly $4/hr more than mine, and I’m just feeling real icky at the moment.

* newer readers may wonder, does B have a sugar daddy? Well. I have a partner of 15 years that I supported through college and with whom I have joint finances, who currently earns literally four times what I do. Is that sugar daddy???
Part of my old boss’s issue was that he was a devout Catholic, of course, and therefore since my dude and I aren’t married our relationship can only be based in sin. Dude also used to scoff at how much I hated children since I didn’t have any. So.

Anyway. I wish I hadn’t heard that, I didn’t need that information.

Why do I only have talents that aren’t worth money.