I’m moving!
No, not out of Chicago and not even out of the neighborhood. But I am moving from this apartment where I've lived for 10 years, so I don't know how much I'll be posting in the next two weeks. The big moving date is April 29th. Plus I'm still on the job hunt. I hope to...
Easter vs. Christmas
I'm wondering why Easter isn't as big an American holiday as Christmas. Here is my friend Robert's response:I think it boils down to this: Would you rather go to a friend's (or savior's) baby shower or execution? Christmas is easier to co-opt than Easter because it's...
I want to sing Easter carols
To me Easter is like the sad, overshadowed cousin of Christmas. It's not lit up with colored lights, it doesn't sparkle with (fake) ice and snow and there's no magical figure that flies through the night to bring you WHATEVER YOU WANT. Easter just sort of languishes....
My Waitressing Saturdays Are on a Count!
In the restaurant, when we're running low on an item, it gets put "on a count." If there are only five creme brulees left, creme brulee gets put on a count and on the computer where we enter our orders, there's a little "5" on the creme brulee button. That number gets...
Irony
Candy Finnegan - bulimia interventionist (Oprah show)
So tired
So tired of being a waitress. Feet hurt. Feet hurt almost all the time. Don't like being up late. So tired of being up late.I'm giving myself one month to find some other way of earning a living. Something I can do SITTING DOWN. My feet hurt so much from being pounded...
Why Blog?
In the past couple of months bloggers Modigli and DCNats have retired their blogs. Modigli explained that the erosion of her blogger anonymity made her feel like she couldn't express herself as candidly as she had when her blog was newer. Blogger.com's new format...
Career
I've been sitting with these suggestions and ideas from friends and I've been considering the ones that sound most appealing to me. I even found someone to ask questions of about the cable show idea.But yesterday I realized that of all the possibilities, the one I...
I need your input on my job
I work in a restaurant, but am ready to move on to a new career. I just don't know what career that is. I've hired a life coach to help me figure it out and he's been great. With him I've worked through a lot of chapter 10 of What Color Is Your Parachute? I am at a...
Cynicism can be romantic too
The National Public Radio website reports that anthropologist Chris McCollum finds that couples tell very similar stories about how they fell in love. He had found that when talking about how they found a job, people tell stories about very deliberately following...
Valentine’s Day for Spinsters
For those who pay attention to Valentine's Day (and thank god most people don't), it tends to either soar or suck. Here's my contribution for all the women who pay attention to it, but aren't coupled and have never been married (especially those of us who are...
Success?
My friend Robert commented on my last post, "What I want to know is what would make you, Regina Rodriguez, truly feel like a success? We all know that you think of yourself as a failure, despite our love, respect, admiration, and protestations to the contrary. I want...