Your Face Is Turned, 7/9

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My wailing and prostration to the gods of vertical transit have paid off! I got to ride in the fancy new elevator yesterday afternoon AND this morning!

In other news, Chapter Seven of Your Face Is Turned has been posted. Only two more to go...

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Here's the thing.

This afternoon, coming back from lunch, I got stuck in an elevator that would only go back and forth between the Lobby level and the 2nd floor, and wouldn't open at either one.

I KNOW, RIGHT.

I don't know how many of you guys have been exposed to that kind of rapid accelerate-decelerate directional change, but apparently it makes people stupid, since nobody would press the OPEN DOOR button when I asked them to until I elbowed forward and did it myself and OH LOOK, when it hit the Lobby level, the doors opened.

On the other hand, not many people have the kind of boss where they can turn to him and say "You're being psychotic, stop now" and he will.

BossBoss is a lovely detail-oriented man but when he's nervous about something he keeps trying to set up more safeguards against the invisible inevitable explosion happening, and sometimes those safeguards are insane. At five minutes to quitting time, I am not going to rewrite our security protocols, and he needs to go home and have a drink, and it's nice that I can tell him so.

That's why they pay me the moderately-sized bucks!

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AND ANOTHER THING.

Heroes action figures are officially the funniest action figures, because of the accessories they come with. And I say that as someone who once built a Visible Woman model and put the accessory-included foetus on his keychain where it remained for many years*.

Claire, for example, comes with a removable head you can swap out for a "wounded head" (also included). Sylar, even more amusingly, comes with a hat, a removable hand that shoots glitter, and A SPARE BRAIN.

I showed this to BossBoss today and he said he didn't want a spare brain, he wanted brains he could hand out to other people who needed them.

* Eventually supplanted by a model of Henry VIII's helmet, which in turn was replaced by a monogrammed keytag with Ellis Graveworthy's initials on it.