Hello guys, sorry it's been almost a month and no post. As you may know, I've been clocking serious hours at G.S, and it's not funny. So finally, since last week, we managed to get our 2 days of consecutive off days. Managed to meet up old friends for a lunch, a chat, some sharing, a stroll in the nurseries, a quick lunch, a foot massage..... old stuff that we used to do and enjoyed, which unfortunately, have been happening less and less, no thanks to the hours I'm putting in. Many a times, I reach home at 1 a.m., zoning in on the fact that in less than 10 hrs I will be back at my work place again, and churning out plates of pea jelly, tomato tartare, shucking fresh oysters, spooning caviars, dicing lobsters, etc.... I get a queasy feeling in my stomach as I try to force myself to go to sleep. Sleep which sometimes never happen.
These days, we've been doing close to 50 covers a night, which is, honestly, quite do-able, only if the customers arrive evenly spread out throughout the night, man, I can tell you what a jam it was when I've to fire orders for a table of 13, at the same time, 2 tables of 4 are ready for their next course and that shit.....
Like what I wrote on my facebook, I said that I feel more tired on my off days than on my working days. I guess the whole 'machine' running on clockwork finally winds down, it gets sluggish and heavy. I'm no longer young and it does get difficult. At the same time, I'm learning a lot, and it adds to my resume, I'm putting and taking as much as I can out of this as well. I do have to eventually think abt the next step.
Hope I get to post more than work the next time... good night!
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