so_what_do_you_do sab he asked me and i said: i'm an artist and a dramaturg for a theatre company and a sculptuer and a photographer and a painter and a graphic designer and a web designer and a web mistress and a wordsmith and a grammangel ... and that's all i can think of at the moment, but if you give me five minutes, i'll probably come up with some more. why, i asked, what do you do? oh, he said, i'm in middle management. and i blinked. it honestly didnt occur to me that when he said 'what do you do' he was asking 'what is your paid job?' and i think that it's telling that it never lept to mind to answer his question with - "im a photoshopmonkey for an online directory" and THAT knowledge i will take into my meeting on monday with my bosses and HR: you may care desperatly about this company and about your job but i have a life filled to overflowing with things that arnt your petty concerns and pathetic and blind loyalty to a juggernaught in pinstripes. do what you like to me. i'll just shurg and find another job. my job does not sustain me like it does you. my art is my life and you are all nothing more than annoying mosquitoes buzzing around my head. 040403 ... minnesota_chris will you wear combat boots too, sab? 040404 ... jennyanydots i love what you do, sab. I do all those things too. but i don't get paid for it. that makes me feel content. 040404 ... sab i'm suited up for war they just don't know it yet. and yeah, the combat boots today are my knee high docs laced tight. [she_walks_softly but she carries a big gun] sab has grown up, since last they tried this grown up grown wise and grown more claws and teeth and i tire of the children screaming. 040404 ... minnesota_chris I'd like a picture of you, standing atop some corporate desky thing, wearing combat boots, or some similar black chunky heeled things. Riot grrl expression. And take the picture really low, so it looks like you're 15 feet tall. I'd really really like that. 040407 ... misstree i second this motion! but somehow a white babydoll dress and stripey socks under the boots replaced the paint-stained overalls. and you have heavy weaponry in one hand and you're winking. a second picture would be you squatting down and aiming at the camera, which is at about desktop level, with a cheshire_grin. final picture would be you with stains and smudges all over the dress, camera wider shot to show the havoc that has been wreaked on the office; leather chair torn open and unstuffed, papers scattered everywhere, desk upside down with the wastebasket sitting on one side ('cause it's got drawers on both sides) with three-foot flames, and you sitting on the other, smoking a pilfered cigar and looking tired and smug. maybe wider shot could show the poor suit that's either tied up or missing most of his head in the corner, almost an afterthought detail, slightly out of focus. suitjacket has been slipped on over the babydoll as a trophy. yup. sabbinator, you've been a busy busy girl in this brain o' mine. 040407 ... The Small Details Don't forget all the gratuitous dripping blood stains and bullet holes. Cue heroic music. Fade to black. 040407 ... ☺ what do i do? you ask me what i dont do and you'd get an answer.......... for the simple reason, i cant do anything. im just a fuck up as you like to say. 040407 ... sab my darling, darling children, what a gift you have given me!!! i have sent the request off to a friend of mine who can draw spectacuallry. if he manages to find the time, i will give you all with the results. but thank you. you've made an old sab very, very happy. much repesct to your imaginations 040407 ... jenny wants a dot i know what you do that no one else can do. put a cute little flying dot next to your name on blather. that is a secret sweet cookie, and i'd like the recipe. 040407 ... .☺. sweet. 040408 ... silentbob I do nothing. I do nothing. 040408 ... minnesota_chris I'm tired of saying I'm looking for a job, working temporary jobs, etc. I just tell people I'm semi-retired. 040418 ... kookaburra i do homework for a living...literally. if i didnt do homework, my parents would kill me 040418 ... uow i do nothing 040911 ... iNsEcUrE_GoTh_GiRl "why? so you can pretend like you're interested?" 040912 what's it to you? who go blather from