Truth or Fiction
Feb. 17th, 2005 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebMy life has been kind of uneventful for journal writing, but it has still been interesting because of my friends and my (borrowed) books. So, here's a game for you to play. I'll describe a situation, and you try to guess whether it happened to someone I know or whether someone made it up. (Answers will be at the bottom of this entry.)
1. On her very first day of work, after talking to her boss a few minutes on the phone, she told him, "I have important people to talk to," and hung up on him.
2. Trying to come up with a good breakfast idea, though she had nothing to cook with, she defrosted the bread and served it with jelly, calling it "toast tartar."
3. Because temporary employees have such high turnover, and because parking would be at a premium for the next six weeks, a new policy was instituted requiring the permanent employees to park in a lot located across the highway and take a shuttle bus. The shuttle bus was to run every thirty minutes, and employees would not be paid for the delay.
4. A group of people are going to try to support each other in their efforts to each write an entire novel in one month. Their strategy will be to focus on quantity, not quality.
5. Her mother had Alzheimer's and got the bed in the trailer. She slept out in the broken-down car out front, which she liked to think of as "The Annex."
In personal news, I have slowly been replacing the contents of my lost purse, I am learning to crochet from an informal class, I am blowing my nose a lot because I have a cold, and we invested in a new clothes drying rack.
Answers:
1. Fiction. (Stephen Bury's Interface) No, she did not get fired.
2. Fiction. (Lemony Snicket's The Slippery Slope)
3. Truth.
4. Truth. (See National Novel Writing Month. It's worse than that: see the 3-Day Novel Contest)
5. Fiction. (Stephen Bury's Interface)
Journal entry of the day - Oh, the ANGST and oh, the DRAMA, from Bad Hair Days, where you learn about doggie love for a toy named Cow. "Oh, the parting, it is such agony! Can Cow come on a walk? Can Cow go to the vet? Can I put Cow here, in your lap, next to that plate of pizza you were trying to eat, while I just sit over here and wash my butt for a while? I know you won't mind, because it is Cow."
1. On her very first day of work, after talking to her boss a few minutes on the phone, she told him, "I have important people to talk to," and hung up on him.
2. Trying to come up with a good breakfast idea, though she had nothing to cook with, she defrosted the bread and served it with jelly, calling it "toast tartar."
3. Because temporary employees have such high turnover, and because parking would be at a premium for the next six weeks, a new policy was instituted requiring the permanent employees to park in a lot located across the highway and take a shuttle bus. The shuttle bus was to run every thirty minutes, and employees would not be paid for the delay.
4. A group of people are going to try to support each other in their efforts to each write an entire novel in one month. Their strategy will be to focus on quantity, not quality.
5. Her mother had Alzheimer's and got the bed in the trailer. She slept out in the broken-down car out front, which she liked to think of as "The Annex."
In personal news, I have slowly been replacing the contents of my lost purse, I am learning to crochet from an informal class, I am blowing my nose a lot because I have a cold, and we invested in a new clothes drying rack.
Answers:
1. Fiction. (Stephen Bury's Interface) No, she did not get fired.
2. Fiction. (Lemony Snicket's The Slippery Slope)
3. Truth.
4. Truth. (See National Novel Writing Month. It's worse than that: see the 3-Day Novel Contest)
5. Fiction. (Stephen Bury's Interface)
Journal entry of the day - Oh, the ANGST and oh, the DRAMA, from Bad Hair Days, where you learn about doggie love for a toy named Cow. "Oh, the parting, it is such agony! Can Cow come on a walk? Can Cow go to the vet? Can I put Cow here, in your lap, next to that plate of pizza you were trying to eat, while I just sit over here and wash my butt for a while? I know you won't mind, because it is Cow."