Chicana on the Edge

Had a great night at work last night. My second dinner shift. My personal sales were over $1,100. I made over $180 in tips, tipped out $68 total to all the bussers, bartenders and foodrunners and should have come home with a good wad of money, over $100.But at the end...

Lucky for me my new restaurant is experiencing a shortage of staff and it's getting me more shifts and better shifts than I would normally get as a new server. I finally worked my first dinner shift last night and I finally made some actual good money. If I could just...

Here's a question for those of you who are dwelling in the same living space with the person you're in an intimate relationship with (married couples, unmarried couples, etc):HOW do you handle spending so much time with each other? Seriously, how do you do it?I can...

(wow, when even apathy is reluctant...)Mick, otherwise known as White Rose Boy, is vacationing in Chicago right now and I promised him I'd play an open mic while he's here. So for those of you in Chicago, it's an increasingly rare chance to see me onstage:9:00 p.m....

I'm feeling discouraged (what else is new). I guess I've only had one restaurant job that was good from the very beginning and that was Nick and Tony's. From the start I was able to live on my earnings there. My new job is at a successful, busy restaurant with good...

Based on the feedback I received on my last post and the feedback Modigli received on her post on the repercussions of blogging, I have changed my opinion: I believe it's impossible to maintain an anonymous blog that no one you know will ever, ever find out about (at...

My blogging colleague Modigli just posted on this subject and I’d like to weigh in. Some blogs are completely anonymous with no identifying details whatsoever, so those bloggers can write at length about absolutely anything without fear of anyone ever knowing it's...

Seriously, I do. I suck at relationships worse than Jennifer Lopez, worse than Liza Minelli. I SUCK. My boyfriend (of five months) and I have been going through a rough time lately. It started with me feeling like my feelings for him were lessening, fading,...

The one place I don’t mind being needed is at my job. I’m a server in a restaurant.I’m constantly needed there.People need me to see them, talk to them, be nice to them.They need me for hours and hours and what they need from me includes the most basic need of all: to...

Imagine you've finally reached the income level you've dreamed of. After working hard and keeping your life goals in sight, you're finally going to build the house of your dreams and drive the car of your dreams and settle into the community of your choice. Life will...

Feeling pulled in different directions these days. Want to blog about real things like global warming and sex, but personal life is getting in way (boyfriend on the way out?). Work going well, starting to feel financially solvent, really like new restaurant/co-workers...

I just sent a letter to my lawmakers, Representative Jan Schakowsky, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Dick Durbin. Remember a few months ago when rogue pharmacists were refusing to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills because their “religious” beliefs prevented...