So! Tired! 2 February 2007 8:48 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,friends,Morning Glory,work , trackbackPutting two exclamation points in the title of this entry brings me to an average of one ! per entry title for this week, which seems appropriate given all the excitement it’s brought. But if that little whim isn’t reason enough for you, pretend it’s an homage to the splendiferous Lynda Barry, okay? Thanks.
In other news, line cooking is still really tiring work (she typed, all curled up in bed with a laptop because sitting at a desk would take too much energy). I was at Morning Glory from 10:30 AM until 4:30 PM today, and I got home just before 5 PM so completely beat it was all I could do to shower and feed the cats. (Peter, bless his heart, got home a little later and managed to coax me into eating a snack, realizing I was hungry, and admitting that one of his dinner ideas sounded good — then he made it, but that was all kinds of fun and easy compared to all the tired-Tracy-wrangling.) Other observations from the first day of my new job, in no particular order:
- Morning Glory is much smaller than the Glenwood in pretty much every way, so I’m going to be on my own in the kitchen a lot, only with the dishwasher and waitstaff (and, um, eek, customers) all within easy hollering distance. I warned everybody that I may sing.
- Tomorrow I’m going to learn to make the (vegan) tantric mushroom gravy, and I’m pretty psyched.
- This morning I was super-nervous about starting, but breathed a huge sigh of relief when I went to hang my coat and bag in the storage room and saw a huge sign on one of the fridges: “WE MUST ROTATE THE TOFU.” After that I was able to relax some.
- Going back to line cooking feels like a step backwards in some ways, but I still feel incredibly lucky to have gotten this job. I mean, I had my first day of training today when literally a week ago I was just reluctantly admitting to myself that I should look for work and composing a short list of places to give unsolicited “hey next time you need someone call me” resumés, and Morning Glory was on it. Only then right in the middle of writing the resumé I found out they were actually looking for someone and the rest is already all over this week’s entries. Long story short is I’m pretty lucky in a whirlwind of exhausting exciting events kind of way.
Now I will give in to all the parts of my body that scream for sleeping, especially since I’m working at 7 AM tomorrow, but I will end this post with shoutouts to some dear friends:
- Liz: I’d been having a hard time motivating myself to leave the house and run errands yesterday, when I got your email, at which point I needed to get Jack Bishop cookbooks at the library, and so far A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen is completely awesome and I’m still wishing I’d had room in my bag for Vegetables Every Day as well. So thanks very much, for both the email and the recommendation. I’ll write back more confidential-style soon.
- Mom and Dad Boothe: the latest issue of Cook’s Illustrated was in the mailbox yesterday when I headed out on errands newly motivated by Liz’s email, and it almost derailed the whole expedition with its distracting awesomeness. All of which is my way of saying that the subscription is still a great gift. Thanks again!
- Everybody: thanks for reading.
Love,
-Tracy
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Linley
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Liz
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