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greenstorm) wrote2007-12-18 08:16 am
greenstorm) wrote2007-12-18 08:16 am
Spoilt
Alright, time for an actual update. I don't have to leave for work for two hours, and I've been too busy lately to record, so here goes.
Right now I'm working two jobs-- evenings is the VanDusen Festival of Lights, where I sell stuff and smile at people, the rest of the time is the Stock Market on Granville Island, which is a yuppie high-end place that sells soup and French sauces (brandy peppercorn, bearnaise, and about six million more).
I'm pretty happy-- the VanDusen thing got me behind a cash register for the first time ever, and it's only a three-week thing, enough to catch me up on bills but not long enough to get boring. The festival of lights is super-magical to be a part of; in previous years I've volunteered, so it's nice to get paid a little. It's not so good for me to man the hot chocolate machine and be told to drink as much as I want when on shift. Oh well. It feels nice to turn on the sunshine for people. Y'know, if you make eye contact and smile people look super-surprised, then they smile back? Even if they've been looking stressed out about juggling kids and sig other and camera and change?
The soup place is unreal cool to work for because the food is *really good* and I get to eat it. I swear, I haven't spent a penny on groceries in the last week. Come in early to work, get their hot cereal with fruit sauce. Eat as much soup as you want on lunch break (and it is amazing soup-- the yam black bean on Sunday ended up topping the split pea butternut squash from the day before. They're all made right there that morning) and grab some for dinner before you leave if you want. Plus... on expiry day you get to take home sauces, which is why I have bearnaise sauce warming over the double boiler as we speak and green peppercorn dressing waiting in my fridge for some salad to go on.
Interestingly, the soups are mostly wheat-free and the veggie soup is generally vegan, but almost all the sauces have egg in them, and man, is it *rich* food. Part of working there is that you're required to take a spoon and taste at least five things a day as they go from the kitchen to the packaging area, so you can discourse knowledgeably on things. HAH!
Anyhow, besides work I haven't had much in the way of a life. I had yesterday off, a full day, and I have another on the 22nd (which took some doing) to go to Angus' tattoo appointment with him, but that's about it. I have Christmas and Boxing Day-day off, but I'm likely working Christmas eve, which is fine with me. It's only a couple of hours, and it's the morning that's the special time.
It'll be nice to drop down to forty hours, though, in the New Year-- this sixty per week thing definitely keeps me too busy to do much else.
Right now I'm working two jobs-- evenings is the VanDusen Festival of Lights, where I sell stuff and smile at people, the rest of the time is the Stock Market on Granville Island, which is a yuppie high-end place that sells soup and French sauces (brandy peppercorn, bearnaise, and about six million more).
I'm pretty happy-- the VanDusen thing got me behind a cash register for the first time ever, and it's only a three-week thing, enough to catch me up on bills but not long enough to get boring. The festival of lights is super-magical to be a part of; in previous years I've volunteered, so it's nice to get paid a little. It's not so good for me to man the hot chocolate machine and be told to drink as much as I want when on shift. Oh well. It feels nice to turn on the sunshine for people. Y'know, if you make eye contact and smile people look super-surprised, then they smile back? Even if they've been looking stressed out about juggling kids and sig other and camera and change?
The soup place is unreal cool to work for because the food is *really good* and I get to eat it. I swear, I haven't spent a penny on groceries in the last week. Come in early to work, get their hot cereal with fruit sauce. Eat as much soup as you want on lunch break (and it is amazing soup-- the yam black bean on Sunday ended up topping the split pea butternut squash from the day before. They're all made right there that morning) and grab some for dinner before you leave if you want. Plus... on expiry day you get to take home sauces, which is why I have bearnaise sauce warming over the double boiler as we speak and green peppercorn dressing waiting in my fridge for some salad to go on.
Interestingly, the soups are mostly wheat-free and the veggie soup is generally vegan, but almost all the sauces have egg in them, and man, is it *rich* food. Part of working there is that you're required to take a spoon and taste at least five things a day as they go from the kitchen to the packaging area, so you can discourse knowledgeably on things. HAH!
Anyhow, besides work I haven't had much in the way of a life. I had yesterday off, a full day, and I have another on the 22nd (which took some doing) to go to Angus' tattoo appointment with him, but that's about it. I have Christmas and Boxing Day-day off, but I'm likely working Christmas eve, which is fine with me. It's only a couple of hours, and it's the morning that's the special time.
It'll be nice to drop down to forty hours, though, in the New Year-- this sixty per week thing definitely keeps me too busy to do much else.
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It was good.
If I end up taking a class on Tuesdays, I'll be there eating soup every Tuesday after work/before class. :D
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New year?
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Take care!