Census Like Me

Ever see Dead Like Me? Every morning, Mandy Patinkin’s crew of reapers would gather at a pancake house and receive the assignments of souls they had to take that day. Meeting for the census job at McDonalds is sort of like that. Except for the soul-taking, of course.
The first day, we had far fewer assignments than the crew leaders had expected, so I wound up with only one (which I won’t detail—giving out details about who we talk to is absolutely verboten and also illegal. Which was good—more time for other stuff, and I spent the evening working at home with TYG—but somehow I wound up with more wasted time and less eHows done than I’d planned (you know how it sometimes is when your schedule gets disrupted) and I think my take for the day was less than if I’d sat at home doing eHows).
The lessons: Take that lunch break! It really does refresh the mind. And if I’m midway through an eHow and decide it’s unworkable, in hindsight it’s better to save it for the next day before making a final decision (waking this morning, I’m thinking it might have been salvageable).
On the plus side again, Fire From Space, the fourth Applied Science story, is looking really good, and I’ll have no trouble getting it in on deadline. Though it turned a little darker and more noirish at the end.