life is a city

be_hospitable is officially open!  be_hospitable is my blog about the hospitality business, and my experiences in the hotel and guest service industry.  It will be tongue-in-cheek and hopefully funny.  It will be annoyed.  It will be cynical.  So hopefully I can stop posting here about what a terrible day I had at work because of the dumbasses who stay at my hotel :)

Feel free to friend the blog if you're interested in reading my posts, but the blog will not friend back.  The only mutual friend the blog will have is me, but all posts will be unlocked forever and ever, so you don't need an add to read it.

The following are some videos of King Harrison, a guy I met when I used to staff.

( if it was up to me, i could have figured you out )

Here's what I hate the most about my job: I hate the person that I am when I'm working here. I'm mean, and tough and I have to say no all the time. And people ask me for ridiculous things or pick fights with me over stupid stuff and I get frustrated with them and then I'm mean to them, which sure, is gratifying for a moment, to make someone feel like an idiot (especially if they are an idiot), but I always feel bad later. Even if you're right, it's wrong to make someone feel stupid, to cut someone down.

And what's worse, I get frustrated and high strung and then I snap at the people I work with, and that makes me feel like an even worse person. I hate being a bitch.

Also, I hate that I care about the hotel and the company so much. We bust our asses to bring in money and let people yell at us because they stayed for cheaper last time, and why do I care if we make our revenue target? Nobody's giving me a bonus. It's not like there's anything going into my pocket. We just got yelled at for actually enforcing the coupon policy - I'm sorry, I thought the goal was to make money. This is a business, and all we're trying to do is keep its head above water, but why? I don't get rewarded for it, at all. Nobody even says thank you.

So anyway. That's my work rant for today.

I'm feeling very uninspired lately. Here are some experiments (full sizes and matching icons behind the cut).





( paper and pen to remember you with )

Okay.  So apparently the Twilight fandom is on the brink of total explosion because of this revelation in a French article from a few days ago... speculation is that Kristen Stewart (KStew, for those of you not acquainted with Twilight-speak) and her boyfriend of forever Michael Angarano (Oregano - they met when they were in 'Speak' together, one of my favorite movies, about 3 or 4 years ago) have broken up.  Or gone on a break.  Or something.

And of course we have all long-since belived that KStew and Robert Pattinson (RPattz) have had something going on.  Without question on Rob's side.  And KStew was just resisting because she was with Oregano.  And to be totally and subjectively honest, their body language really says it all.  He is so in love with her.  He bought her a $1500 Taylor guitar for her 18th birthday, among other evidence.

And the whole fandom is waiting for Sundance with baited breath because if Oregano doesn't show up, that means he and KStew are not together.  And if RPattz does show up, it means he and KStew are together!  And everyone's all, "SHHHH, pretend we don't know anything, just keep it quiet or we'll scare them off like deer and they'll go hide on their respective continents and all our hopes and dreams will be dashed!"

I am loving this.  It's just like high school all over again but more fun because everyone's older and cooler and under the influence of something interesting.  This is so much fun :D

Ugh, I have to calm myself down.  Have to get up in the middle of the fucking night to make it to work before 7 am.  I hate my job.

A small collection of some of my favorite secrets from ljsecret. I did not make any of these; I picked them because they spoke to me, or I particularly related to them, or I just thought they were beautfully made.



( Please enjoy more of people's deepest and darkest secrets behind the cut. )

• 10:06 is tired. Needs a day off. Oh, and a better job, while we're dreaming, please. #

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I put together a little playlist for Patty, and then I got bored and decided to make some artwork for it.  I don't know if anyone else will be interested in my taste in music, but I enjoy it, so I thought I'd make it available to share.

Warnings: Behind the cut there are spoilers for the entire series (in my commentary), and tons of massive graphics.  This post will eat your dial-up. Inside the zip file, most songs are MP3 but some are M4A.

Credit for the textures I used in the graphics goes to graphic_sl,and ownthesunshine. Photo from edwardandbella.net.



( and so without further ado... )

• 11:45 is listening to Radiohead, Augustana, Damien Rice and Semisonic, and working on her cover materials. Must get them in the mail today! #

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• 20:36 is suddenly suspicious that all the CDs she wants are free on her Russian website. A Christmas miracle...? #

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