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Breakfast Shift
Sep. 14th, 2013 02:16 pmA while back I shared what I thought my clinicals schedule was. I was wrong! Instead I had three weekend breakfast shifts, the last of which was today. I've got two more weeks with breakfast shifts (MTW), and then I'm off breakfasts forever. And by "forever" I mean "for the rest of this semester".
( Cut for griping about breakfast shifts and my class schedule )
I've mostly been having a great time at the hotel breakfast shifts, for all I have to be up and out the door by predawn o'clock; the actual bakery employees are a lot of fun, and we get along pretty damn well. We do have a new head pastry chef, who is... less fun, but we hardly see her, so. (That's actually part of what makes her less fun, IMO. She's not around enough to gain a real understanding of how everyone/everything works. She did teach me how to "peel" a watermelon today, but that's about the best thing I can say of her.) For whatever reason, we're no longer allowed to play music in the lab/bakery (it's "not professional enough" or something?), but I'm still enjoying myself and am looking forward to getting back there after my cafe breakfast shifts.
After I got off my breakfast shift today, I decided to treat myself to a trip to Half-Price Books. I wanted to see if that used DS Lite was still around (I can't seem to find my secondhand GBA and want at least the option of playing Emerald/Fire Red), and maybe do some browsing. The DS Lite was gone, but I did find a box set of Mushi-shi for only twenty bucks.
This box set is simultaneously the fanciest box set I've ever had, and the most ridiculously over-packaged. While I do have several DVD sets that include individually packaged DVDs, each in their own box, with a box to hold them all and an oversleeve to go over that, this one also has cardboard sleeves for each of the individual DVD boxes. And there are six of those. My next most fancy have, at most, four. Each DVD is also boxed with a postcard and a booklet with character designs. Color me impressed. (And slightly incredulous. There are four layers between me and any DVD. I appreciate the art, don't get me wrong, but that's a little ridiculous.) Now I just need to find room on my shelves for it...
( Cut for griping about breakfast shifts and my class schedule )
I've mostly been having a great time at the hotel breakfast shifts, for all I have to be up and out the door by predawn o'clock; the actual bakery employees are a lot of fun, and we get along pretty damn well. We do have a new head pastry chef, who is... less fun, but we hardly see her, so. (That's actually part of what makes her less fun, IMO. She's not around enough to gain a real understanding of how everyone/everything works. She did teach me how to "peel" a watermelon today, but that's about the best thing I can say of her.) For whatever reason, we're no longer allowed to play music in the lab/bakery (it's "not professional enough" or something?), but I'm still enjoying myself and am looking forward to getting back there after my cafe breakfast shifts.
After I got off my breakfast shift today, I decided to treat myself to a trip to Half-Price Books. I wanted to see if that used DS Lite was still around (I can't seem to find my secondhand GBA and want at least the option of playing Emerald/Fire Red), and maybe do some browsing. The DS Lite was gone, but I did find a box set of Mushi-shi for only twenty bucks.
This box set is simultaneously the fanciest box set I've ever had, and the most ridiculously over-packaged. While I do have several DVD sets that include individually packaged DVDs, each in their own box, with a box to hold them all and an oversleeve to go over that, this one also has cardboard sleeves for each of the individual DVD boxes. And there are six of those. My next most fancy have, at most, four. Each DVD is also boxed with a postcard and a booklet with character designs. Color me impressed. (And slightly incredulous. There are four layers between me and any DVD. I appreciate the art, don't get me wrong, but that's a little ridiculous.) Now I just need to find room on my shelves for it...
