x_dj: (bongo bongo bongo!)
Mark Sheppard ([personal profile] x_dj) wrote2006-09-07 03:13 pm

omg hi

I have a blog for work? Coolest job ever. I should customize it so it's all pink and shiny impossible to read like MySpace. That'll get me a promotion, right? Sweet.

So the PTB told me that I should say hi now so nobody goes all wtf later when they see some strange person post. I'm Mark Sheppard, and I'm Snow Valley's pretty face at the front door receptionist/office bitch. That'd be my charmingly sexy voice you hear when you call our main number. So hello, all. Pleased to meet you.

I would also like to take this opportunity to pimp my one true everlasting love forever and ever amen, Silver. The only nightclub in the state of New York that caters especially to mutants. (At least, I think it's the only one. If it's not, then it's definitely the best.) I'm there just about every night, being the music man and all. Everyone who says hi here gets a free drink. But only if you're over 21. If you're not, then only if you smile sorry, no can do. We love our liquor license very much and couldn't stand to see her leave. It'd leave me heartbroken and then I wouldn't be able to do my job here and then I'd end up begging for boxed wine on the streets, and no one should ever have to drink boxed wine.

[identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You hate boxed wine? I like you already.

I hate to spoil the surprise but if you make your journal bright pink and horrible it will just magically revert itself to something else, very likely. Have you met our server admin?

I am Marie-Ange, by the way. Amanda may... or may not have mentioned. Or Remy. He may have. No matter, I am one of your co-workers. Which is just as awkward to say here as any other introduction. It would be easier if I just came down and met you - besides, I have to show you where the good coffee is.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Take a look at my neck. It's very much white. (Kind of olive, actually. Got some good Italian blood in me.) But not red. Ergo, no boxed wine.

I've only had the pleasure of meeting Amanda, Wanda, Remy, Betsy, and Sarah. Amanda CC'd me in an e-mail last week, but I don't remember who replied. So maybe I do know people.

Mmm, coffee, yes please. Where do we keep the Bailey's?
xp_daytripper: (waifish)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Angie was in on that email and the clubbing trip. Things were a bit busy for you that night, so I couldn't do proper intros and all. She used to be the ever-patient soul who roomed with me at Xavier's.

And thank the powers that be that I don't have to answer the phones any more. Talking nice makes my throat hurt.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had worse jobs. Ever work retail in NYC? Ugh. I don't remember where I buried all the bodies.
xp_daytripper: (english and proud)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I worked bar in New Orleans. *grins* Although the manifestation kicked in before Mardi Gras, so I was spared the lemmings tourists.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think any mutant power could help you there. Except maybe super speed, but that'd just get people drunk faster and they'd demand more drinks and it wouldn't end.
xp_daytripper: (i believe in magic)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it meant more I ended up at Muir Island with my brain trying to crawl out of my ears, so not so much of the need to tend bar. My boss told me to go get help when I passed out for the second time in two days.

And help there was. All manifested and working out just what the hell I can still do as we speak. Excuse the giant dusty books piled around my desk...

[identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I would be the aforementioned sysadmin. Doug Ramsey, at your service. I'd have come by to introduce myself in person, but I've been hip-deep in database servers. So you get welcomed via laptop.

If you need something computer-related, I'm your guy.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Not red?

[identity profile] x-medusa.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Greetings Mark. I do not understand a lot of what you wrote, but congratulations on your new job at Snow Valley.

I almost forgot that the drinking age in the U.S. is 21 and up. Is the club open to individuals 18 years of age and older for enjoyment purposes?

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
21 to drink, 18 to dance and seduce 21 year-olds for buttery nipples :D

[identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, Mark. Good to officially-meet you.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You too ^^

[identity profile] x-cable.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, Mark. They did warn you that the journal system is shared with a school full of mutant teenagers and assorted crazy types, yes?

I would be Nathan. I teach at the school. I'm also one of the assorted crazy types, depending on what day it is and how much coffee I've had.
xp_daytripper: (just a kid)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course we did. *innocent*

[identity profile] x-cable.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah. You threw him into the deep end and muttered something about sharks as you fled the room, didn't you?
xp_daytripper: (beach 2)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe? *grins*

Actually, I did warn him that there were younger kids who could read what he wrote. I didn't want too many tricky questions next bus trip.

[identity profile] x-cable.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, but the tricky questions are always the most fun...
xp_daytripper: (hopeful)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-08 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
That's what Pete tells me. And then he laughs. A lot. He's finding the whole thing way too funny.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'll write my next entry about what goes on doesn't go on in the dark corners in Silver.
xp_daytripper: (slutty)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
No making me have to give the 'where did I come from' talk - I'm sure I'd scar the students for life...

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I wrote myself a little Post It and hung it up on my monitor to remind me so I don't speak too filthily. I'm not sure how well I did. It's been so long since I was a teenager.

[identity profile] x-cable.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of our teenagers swear like troopers. Although you'd be liable to shock the ones that don't, so maybe the post-it isn't such a bad idea.

[identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we still have that language filtering system?
xp_daytripper: (working)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* For the little ones, you mean? Yeah, I think that's still in force - Doug writes good code. ;)

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I thought Dr. McCoy wrote that software?
xp_daytripper: (determined)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-08 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
If McCoy wrote it, kudos to him instead. I'm pretty sure Doug and Kitty maintained it, though, considering McCoy wasn't exactly around for much of the last three years and had a lot of other stuff going on when he was.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm quite sure he did. Doug wasn't here when the system went up as I recall. Kit was but I don't think she was quite up to programming it then.
xp_daytripper: (lazy)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-08 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
The journals went up back in 2003, yeah, but I thought the filter was brought in later? I seem to remember backreading to some fuss about John swearing in his journal and the little kids reading it.

*shrugs* Whatever. It's not really important, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I certainly have better things to do than to argue it, and I'm sure you do too.

Upshot is, there's a filter program for naughty words so us rough types don't traumatise the littlies.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. Just homework that I'm avoiding. What kind of professor gives homework on the first day of class? My social justice professor, that's who.

It was brought in later. But I'm pretty sure it was Dr. McCoy who wrote it.

Could be wrong of course. I've been here too long.
xp_daytripper: (cheerful)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-07 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*snorts* You're two years older than me. Positively ancient, that is...

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
It was a long time ago :P It's been more than three years since high school, and that's 14% of my life.
xp_daytripper: (dressed up)

[personal profile] xp_daytripper 2006-09-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Only one year for me. Yeah, late bloomer and all that. *grins* Worth the wait, though, don't you think?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hello, Mark. I'm Terry. Not anyone particularly special I'm afraid. Just a college student.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say that you having red hair is special, but it looks like Xavier's is a conglomeration of redheads. Plus, I've seen weirder colors. I saw this one guy last week who was like a human black light. He'd dyed his hair white so he could make it glow.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, there you go then. Unremarkable as mutants come.

What is it that you do?

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a force manipulator (little f, although big F would be sweet). Electromagnetism is my bitch.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
How so? Which part of the spectrum? Are you a magnekinetic or is it visible light?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Both? You're in good company. We've a magnekinetic at the school...wait, no, Forge insists that she's a magnetopath--something about generating fields herself.

I'm mostly just loud myself. Good hearing too.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
My power is kinda complicated. I manipulate different parts of the spectrum depending on my mood. Sort of. But I make an awesome human strobe light.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
We're used to complicated mutations around here.

Handy feature, that. Useful for your work. Alison--she used to teach music here--she could do the same thing. Absorbed sound and converted it to light. Karolina radiates light too but not strobelike. Just pretty colors.

[identity profile] x-blink.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
hola!

silver is sweet. totally awesome. but I don't think it's the DJ, I think it's...no wait...it is the DJ!

anyways, I'm Clarice and I live in Maryland and show up whenever I feel like it here or there. or somewhere in between ;)

if you make your journal all obnoxious and spazzy then I will glitter you. because THAT IS MY JOB!!! (to be obnoxious and spazzy. AND to glitter people).

[identity profile] x-rahne.livejournal.com 2006-09-09 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Hi, I'm Rahne, and I'm the real bitch (I turn into a wolf). We're used to seeing strange people post, but you're right, it helps if we know them. Nice to meet you.

[identity profile] x-blink.livejournal.com 2006-09-09 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
*spittakes*

I can't believe you said that.