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Credit card troubles or couldn't find anything good today?

More like identity troubles. No high end clothing store will touch me.

Is this like that scene in Pretty Woman where ~~Julia Roberts~~ Vivian goes into a store only to get that snotty lady's attitude?

*blinks and chuckles a little* Did you just call me a hooker?

*facepalm* No? Or at least that wasn't my intent. I was just asking if they were just being superficially discriminatory. You don't look like any hooker I've ever seen.

Well, I never thought Julia Roberts looked like much of a prostitute either but I'll take that as a compliment. *Sighs and smirks* Sadly no. They have very valid reasons for not wanting me associated with their establishments. It just sucks because I was good at it and the only job available to me is one I never really thought I'd get back into. *Scrunches her nose* And no it's not prostitution. Not even the Hollywood kind.

*laughs, then straightens up* Pretty as you are you shouldn't get into that business anyway. Maybe modeling? That's something attractive people do in LA right? Not too many pretty faces where I live.

*Blushes* Well, I live in New York but I don't see modeling in the cards for me. Pretty or not, I'm only 5'1". What would I model? Osh Gosh Bgosh? Thank you though. So where do you live?

I always thought that the height (and weight) thing was silly. Women come in all shapes and sizes and colors, so why do all the models have to look like I need to feed them? As for where I live, San Jose, so I usually just see college co-eds wearing logos on backsides. *cringes*

New York? Don't they always need cabbies?

Agreed but thus is the nature of the machine. There are plus sized models though. A few of my favorite work the plus sized side. The industry is really only heightist. Not that I blame them too much. Tall people do wear clothes differently and they pull off runway struts better too. There are reasons for all of it. It just sucks when you're short. I heard that men's magazines don't have those sorts of restrictions but I really don't think I'm cut out for that sort of work. San Jose? That's in California right?

Heh. You're funny. Besides, that doesn't work when you don't have a license.

Yeah it's in California. Northern half of the state. A little ways from San Francisco.

The way people drive there, I honestly wonder if you'd even need a license. *smirks*

Well then, since you've shot down all my potential job ideas, what are you planning on doing?

Oh okay. Is it nice there?

Probably not. It's scary enough to walk.

*Chews her bottom lip* Don yellow spandex and fight crime?

It's different, but I was looking for different when I moved here.

*Not sure if she's serious* You're not really going to put on yellow spandex are you? Yellow? I mean if you're going to be one of those vigilantes I hear about on the news, you should try black.

Where did you live before?

*Embarrassed smile knowing how ridiculous it sounded* True but black is very slimming and if I get any skinnier I'll look like a floating head.

Arkansas. Near Petit Jean State Park. Floating head might be good for stopping crime. The shock value and all

Oh. *No idea where this park is and it shows* Arkansas. Nice. *rolls her eyes but smiles* Greeaaat. Other superheros invoke fear or a sense of awe. I will invoke a sense of WTF. Worst. Superhero. Ever.

You have no idea where that is do you? It's okay. I should have just said "near Little Rock". Most people get that a little better.

*still thinking this is a joke* Well, floating head, what sort of superpowers are you going to have? Flight? X-ray vision? Telekinesis?

*Lightbulb* Oh. Okay. That's where Bill Clinton was from, right?

*She knows he thinks it's a joke and chooses to not correct him* Well, I can fly but only incidentally. My actual power is controlling microwave energy. I can make it hot, create fire, bend it so I can lift objects, other people, and myself which is how I can fly. I have to be careful though. It's essentially radioactive what I can do so civilians too close while I use my powers my be subject to tumors, lower white blood cell count. Repeated exposure could make them sterile but I'm usually more careful than that. I can shield them for the most part. Plus if I go overboard I could set fire to the atmosphere and destroy the earth and all the people on it or make a big worm hole in the middle of manhattan that just sucks things in like a black hole probably killing everyone in a matter of minutes.

*laughs at herself* Wow. I sound more like a villian than a superhero. It's a shame I don't look better in dark colors.