4 posts tagged “school”
Regarding the bags of melted Reese's peanut butter chips -
Richard: What were you doing with these? Sitting on them?
Brie: No, it's just from being in my hot truck this afternoon.
Me: Nooo! You were totally cuddling with them, weren't you?
Richard: Yea, like using them as pillows.
Brie: Actually, my boobs started getting really sweaty, so I put them under my boobs to keep them cool.
Everyone: Oh. My. Gawwwwd! *laughter
Me: Wow, Brie. That was beautiful.
Brie: I knew you'd like that one!
While doing dishes, Jason dropped a bunch of sheet pans in the water. Of course, it splashed everywhere.
Me: Way to go, Jason! Making a mess while the rest of us are trying to clean one up!
Jason: Did I get you wet?
Me: Hah. Well. Ummmm...
Jason: NO! I was talking about right now. With the dish water.
Me: Oh. Oh! Yea, no. Only my shoe.
While trying to pop a lid on a pie:
Me: I can't get it to stay in.
Jason: Do you always have this problem?
Me: No! Because I'm so good, it's usually getting it out that's the problem.
During clean up:
Richard: Someone needs to wipe down these tables.
Me: Someone needs to wipe down your mom!
Richard: Yea, they do! Actually, I'm sure a lot of people have wiped her down.
Me: What the hell? Am I ever going to offend you by talking about your mom?
Richard: No. You'll probably have to talk about someone else.
Me: Okay, well. Your daughter is a dingleberry!
Richard: Aw, man! Why you gotta talk about my daughter?
In other news, we had out bake sale tonight. Check it out!
Good news! I'm not losing my apartment anymore. I called the manager and explained why I had "unauthorized occupants" staying at my house. Lucky for me, my manager was EXTREMELY understanding and I am INCREDIBLY fortunate that she understood. I'm going to write her a little letter along with my rent check explaining how much it means to me. It is such a huge relief.
Another huge relief is having a few interviews lined up for the next couple of days. I was beginning to lose faith in myself and Craigslist. I hope at least one of them works out, I really need it. If I weren't so superstitious when it comes to this sort of thing, I'd share with you what I have lined up. I'm afraid I might jinx myself, so my lips are sealed.
It's definitely time for a hot shower and a full nights rest. I have a long two days ahead of me.
I went to school today to start working on that giant project due this week. I was proud of myself because a) I actually went to school, b) my "breaks" to check the internet were minimal, and c) I was actually getting stuff done.
I wrote out recipes for five appetizers, five salads, ten entrees, and five desserts. I saved them all to the desktop on the school computer and began sending them to my e-mail account. (I lost my thumb drive.) Half way through sending them, I somehow managed to kick the plug out of the wall and the entire computer shuts down. I just stare at the screen, not understanding what just happened. And then it all sunk in, I just lost half of my project. HALF OF MY PROJECT. GONE. JUST LIKE THAT.
We have a program on our school computers that wipe everything off of the computer when it shuts down. I didn't think to save my shit to the D drive so everything went away. I got so frustrated that I got up and left. I couldn't sit there for another 3 hours trying to fix what I just did.
THIS SUCKS SO BAD.
But let's look on the bright side, it's all I have left...
1) I only have to write five entrees and five desserts.
2) My menu looks like this:
Appetizers:
Coconut Crusted Crab Cakes with a Lime Dipping Sauce
Garlic Roasted Potato Skins with an Onion and Spinach Dip
Oyster Rockerfeller
Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Salads:
Ahi Salad with Sesame Vinaigrette
Chopped Salad with Feta, Olives, and Pita Croutons
Orange, Almond, and Spinach Salad
Pear and Blue Cheese Salad
Persimmon, Pear, and Pomegranate salad with Radicchio and Figs
Entrees:
Baked Salmon
Baked Stuffed Lobster
Grilled Mahi with Chili-Coconut Broth
Portobella Burger (nothing fancy, obviously)
Spinach and Eggplant Curry
SO, only five more entrees and five desserts... then it's on to pricing AND specs.
Time to go back and try to recreate what I had.
I am currently working on an extremely HUGE project that I have had 9 weeks to do. I should rephrase that a little. I am just now starting a extremely large project that I have had 9 weeks to do. It is due next week. I'm am only about 5% finished.
This project requires me to write a 5 course menu, 5 appetizers, 5 salads, 10 entrees, and 5 desserts. I also have to write a recipe for each one of these items. If my item has a sauce, I need to write a recipe for that, too. The fun doesn't end there, I also have to do costing for these things. I have to look up the price of every item, divide the price by how much of the item I am using, add that price to the prices of the other items, and then increase the total cost by 35% and I have the price of that one menu item! I have to do that at least 25 times, but it might end up more like 35 times, because I have sauces. And sauces have prices.
After all of that is finished, I get to write specs for every item. Specs are made up of at least 5 categories. Five categories for every single item on my menu. Right down to the salt and pepper. I'm so fucked.
I would rather be hanging out with Jamie drinking the last of my Sam Adams Summer Ale.
