Tremendulent!

Okay. It was a bad week. Work was stressful and annoying. And the little five year old voice in my head that was saying 'Please, please can we write fic now? Please, please, please?' I had to keep saying 'No! Mommy has to work now and pay bills.' (Yeah, let's not look into my subconscious too closely.

But the following conversation I had on the phone with someone this week wins the WTF?! award. Some background info: My non-profit is currently organising an exhibition for sustainability, so I've been in marketing mode for awhile. And, I'm an American currently living in Wales.

Me: Hello, xxxx company. How can I help you?
English Guy: Yeah, hi. I was driving and saw one of your signs for your exhibition.
Me: Yes?
EG: Well, it was very badly placed. I had to park my car and walk 20 yards to look at it when it could have been put closer to the roundabout and there's no information on the sign at all. It just says the name of the show, the date and the town name. It was terribly, terribly inconvenient.
Me: Well, I'm very, very sorry. I'll have a talk with the people who placed the sign.
EG: I'm coming to the show, but it's certainly no thanks to anything you've done.
Me: Again, I'm very sorry. Can I give you our website address?
EG: I just have no idea where xx city is. No one has ever heard of it.
Me: Well, actually it's the town where the national agricultural show has been taking place for several years. It's in Wales.
EG: Well, I've never heard of it. No one in my office has ever heard of it and what an American is doing living in Wales, I just don't understand.
Me: *bzuh?*

The guy wins the award not only for his WTF-ery but also for the most bizarre non-sequitor I've ever heard.

I'm going to bed.

PS. I'm currently seeing Naomi Watts as Nurse Chapel. See my icon? She's even in scrubs!

I have a question for all the writers/readers on my flist. Do any of ya'll have a good example of flashback used in either lit or fic? Or let me know how you feel about flashbacks. Some people can't stand them and I'd love to know why.

I've hit a bit of a block and am having trouble finding a seamless way of inserting flashbacks. I know I've seen good examples, but am drawing a complete blank.

Halp?

Virtual slices of pie to anyone who can help a girl out.

Okay. I'm fairly sure I can't write this, because the amount of information I retained from high school physics is sketchy at best, but...

Wouldn't it be an interesting one-shot if someone were to write Sheldon from Big Bang Theory calling up Dana Scully from the X-Files to discuss her thesis: Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation, which she wrote while in college?

Discuss.