Why can’t Easter be more like Christmas?
I have always found Easter depressing. It’s like the pale, listless cousin of Christmas. I don’t understand it because Jesus being born was certainly a big deal, but wasn’t him rising from the dead an even more impressive event? Christmas was the day this baby god was...
Counting Down the Days
I'm stealing Joel's recent blog post title since I, too am counting the days until I leave my current job. Training for the new restaurant started last week and it's great. I am learning so much about Indian food, geography, culture. This week we concentrate on spices...
Forgot
Oh, hell - I haven't done my taxes yet.
I Quit!
Modigli quit. Joel quit. And I quit.I quit!I recently interviewed at a soon-to-open restaurant that felt like such a good fit, I suspected my job search was over. Well, on Sunday I got a call and they offered me the job! I accepted and Wednesday I went to the first...
Bitter Forever
So... -- after all my hardened bitterness from too many lonely, manless years and -- after all the advice I’ve received that suggested that I’d find a man if I weren’t so bitter and -- after all my dating jadedness and anger because it felt like the world had cheated...
Understatement
I said, “Do you always have to have this many lights on?”He said “Yeah, I like a lot of light.”I said, “Well, I hadn’t turned any lights on because I like it dark.”He said, “Okay.”I said, “So we’re pretty much going to be, like, you’ll be walking into rooms and...
Full-time job search
Okay, my part-time job search is now a full-time job search. I've had it. I do not belong in this restaurant. It's just not for me and I don't want to be there. I'm throwing myself into seeking and applying to restaurants that want full-time servers, whether they're...
“Are you a student?”
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what’s wrong with my blog?
Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could fix my blog? The sidebar is down at the bottom! At least, that's what I see. That is how it looks to you, isn't it?
The end of the tunnel!
Tonight I had a very encouraging job interview. Before I went to the interview I was talking to my friend Robert, NYC jazz pianist, about my job woes. I was saying that I feel surrounded by co-workers who crave the tidal wave of customers that crush you and then...
Preferences (or “I’m no poet”)
He's always liked dark hair and dark eyes.I've always liked tall, lanky white guys.If more of our compatibilities rhyme,I could be stuck with this guy for some time.
Which Literature Classic Are You?
Um, okay. I guess this is about right. T.S. Eliot was one of my favorite poets in college. And that was when I had hope for my life. Which literature classic are you? T.S.Eliot: The Wasteland. You are a desperate cry to God, moulded in intricate word-craftmanship....