Employment AMA; text: Graced

[miss_brilliant]

EMPLOYMENT AMA
Preferred Alias: Amanda Perry

Worst Job(s) Held: Every bit of consulting work I did before I was discovered by the military for businesses and projects I had absolutely no interest in. They all sort of blurred together.
Best Job(s) Held: Consulting software engineer for a project designing a new generation of FTL drives.
Fantasy Job(s): I guess probably still an astronaut.

Current Job(s): Nothing here yet, the last job I had was a consultant and show designer at a planetarium.

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[miss_brilliant]

I didn't think you were really that concerned about my moral fiber. But when I realized just how different my dreams of working with the space program were from my reality, I did have to realign my thinking in ways I'm not sure I've always liked. And it's possible I've had far too much time alone to consider that.

Heroic cape? [yes, that's what gives her pause. This is probably a sign she's been hanging around him a little too long]

Well, yes. I guess the kick I got out the first phone call when they asked me to come help with the drives is proof of that. I'd been very much on the sidelines up to that point, and going back to that was harder than I thought it would be, especially after I had my hands on the ship's defenses. It wasn't easy going back to the daily grind like nothing had changed.

[pillz]

[and maybe kavinsky's been hanging around amanda too long, because— because, there's a part of him that wants to comment idiotically that he'd thought she was a gimp, so what the fuck is hands on about? but he doesn't say anything. joseph kavinsky, demonstrating basic human decency. you're welcome, world!

(not really.)

(he can get over the bar if you set it so low he can basically roll over it.)]

well speakin of going to some weird shit
wat is ur new dream baby girl
we got a lot of weird machines & worlds 2 save here. i dunno if any of them r > drives
but shit
ur nerd rage gotta be good 4 somethin

[miss_brilliant]

[if she were bothering, she would have clarified that yes they hadn't been hers...but they also had been. She'd let herself forget that she was controlling another woman's body so completely that she'd actually been shocked when Nick had forced her to look in a mirror after she kissed him. But that's another moral quandry she hasn't been letting herself think about. She kept telling herself waivers had been signed so that made her drunk impulse all right. And maybe it did. She knew the woman she'd been living through had a wedding ring, at any rate, so she probably wasn't the only one who had tired to get a few moments of happiness from a pretty grim situation.

Because that made it better, that they'd probably both used each other's mouths for more than the functions of staying alive. Amanda knew it didn't, but it was a good rationalization]

Yeah. Of course, even if circumstances were different I'd be interested in exploring the possibilites of the technology here. I don't think it's matter of it being greater than what I've done before, although the scale of what we're apparently trying to do certainly is.

Of course I want to throw myself into that, in whatever capacity I can. But I'm used to jumping into already established teams, not spearheading anything myself outside of tinkering with private projects. I really don't have any idea where to start.

cw sexual vulgarity

[pillz]

same here
only spearheding i do is puttin my dick in somebody
guess that a good excuse 2 sit @ home wit some tequila & fuck around wit chess while bein tragically hung up on some guy
which should b our fuckin national sport, u ask me
or
option 2
we could go out 4 a drive
u want ur car back? u think taht would b a good distraction

[miss_brilliant]

[if she could accurately depict facepalming in text, she would]

I really wish I could say you're exaggerating, but depressingly I think you're the one person who has the best idea of how pathetically hung up I really am.

You know, that's actually a legitimately good idea.

[pillz]

dont sound so fuckin surprised, woman
what givez

[miss_brilliant]

I think it's more that I'm still surprised that sounds more appealing to me than programming at the moment. It really wasn't a hobby I expected to take up, much less like so much.

[pillz]

basic logic baby girl
when u stuk it feels good 2 go fast
lol
guess even when u aint, fasters good
fast is power
& nobody likes powerless

[it's the basis for all phallic overcompensation ever, really.]

[miss_brilliant]

True enough. That's probably at least half of my attraction to space travel, anyway

Part of me sort of hates to admit that the car is actually far hotter than most of the aircraft I worked with.

[if she'd actually used 'sexier' in conversation with him she probably would have had to hide under her bed for at least three days]

[pillz]

thats the fuckn spirit


hey hey
hey baby do u want me 2 dream u a airplane ;(

[miss_brilliant]

Well. Supposing we could find someone to teach me to do something with it instead of just letting it sit there looking pretty, sure.

[really, now that she thinks about it, once the shock of getting the car wore off she might have proposed it back in Eudio. Maybe]

[pillz]

fuck yes baby
tahts the spirita
well break chamapigne over her face