Woman Fired For Writing Romance Novel At Work
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — A Sioux Center woman has been fired a job at an industrial equipment manufacturer for working on a romance novel on company time.Tanja Shelton began working at Sioux Automation in Sioux Center in August, where she had a desk job as a production control scheduler. After a few weeks, her supervisor, Cindy Altena, noticed Shelton was typing almost constantly.
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I’ve got 22 pages and 7,240 words on this new project. 1773 of those I got Saturday. (and we had company all day Sunday through this morning, so that slowed me down, of course – only 150 yesterday, f’ex) I’ve really gotten a kick out of doing the research for this story. It’s spread over a long period of time – from 1959 to 1966. I’ve found music, I’ve gotten pictures of clothes, furniture, appliances, cars, hairdos. I’ve grilled my in-laws, the Harlan County Extension Service, the Harlan County Chamber of Commerce, and the Harlan Tourism Commission for information about downtown Harlan in that time period.
Although the research has its pitfalls. I’ll find something neat and catch myself reading about it and clicking through links, and next thing I know I’ve wasted an hour of writing time. :smash:
I have a stuffed dog that’s an AM radio. No joke. I got it when I was very small, and it runs on a 9 volt battery. The last time I tried (a couple of years ago), it still worked and still picked up a good, strong signal. Its just a small, brown stuffed dog. Nothing special. Except that it has a radio in its belly. :D
I was telling Thomas this one on the phone the other night, and we laughed ourselves silly.
Christmas 1993, I drove down to pick Thomas and Tayler up for their two weeks of Christmas with me. We stopped at the brand new Danville Wal-Mart Supercenter to poke around, pick up a few more things for them for Christmas and things they needed while they were with me. They were little then; Thomas had just turned 4, and Tayler had turned 2 in the Spring. So, I’d dumped them into a shopping cart – no way was I walking across the lot with those two hooligans – Thomas was in the basket, Tayler in the “kiddie seat”. We crossed the way and went up on the sidewalk.
Now the way this Wal-Mart and it’s “out front” was designed, there was like 20′ of side walk between the roadway and the building. We’re walking down through there toward the doors, and a woman is walking a bit behind us, and Tayler goes, “Mommy, are those great big alligators going to eat us?” I was like, “What honey?” I looked at Thomas and he looked at me like, ‘I dunno’. Tayler said, “Mommy, are those great big alligators going to eat us?” The lady behind us almost burst out laughing and caught herself. “What alligators, Tayler?” And he pointed to the wall. To these tall, green pointy things wrapped in wire and propped against the wall. “Phillip Tayler, those are Christmas trees!” “Oh.”
We all four were :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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