Breakfast Shift
Sep. 14th, 2013 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetA 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".
The "fun" thing about breakfast shifts is that I've had to set my alarm for 4:30 in the morning, so I can be out the door by 5:15, and be checked in, in uniform, and in the bakery by 6:00. The extra "fun" thing about next week is that I'm sharing my shift with a sorta-friend from my class, and she has asked me for a ride to the (on-campus) cafe where we'll be working from her apartment, which is actually out of my way. So I'll be getting up an extra fifteen minutes or so early in order to get us both there on time. Possibly more. Fun times! At least she offered to reimburse me for the gas, sigh.
The most "fun" thing in the world on top of that is that I start another class on Monday, which goes from 4:00pm to about 6:00pm. It's taught by the same woman who teaches the cake decorating classes, who taught the subject poorly and pushed us unreasonably hard. (Each class period was two hours. We decorated a cake a day, from design to finish, and she wanted us done at least half an hour before we had to leave so we could critique. And then we still had to clean our piping tips and bags. She also plays favorites, consciously or not.) I had greatly been looking forward to the class itself, Baking for Dietary Restrictions, and now I am only moderately looking forward to it. I desperately want to learn the material (I've got some gluten-intolerant friends and my dad's diabetic, plus I'm all about accessibility) but to the best of my knowledge there is no actual book involved and I've already expressed my doubts about the instructor's teaching ability.
Anyway, between that class and the breakfast shift on MTW, that's three days of the next two weeks I'll be at school for twelve hours. The only plus I can think of (aside from maybe learning some extra neat and helpful stuff in BfDR) is that I've got about three hours between BfDR and the previous class where I can sit and do my homework. With any luck, I'll be keeping good pace with my assignments within a matter of weeks and will be able to start writing and/or crocheting on the side.
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...
The "fun" thing about breakfast shifts is that I've had to set my alarm for 4:30 in the morning, so I can be out the door by 5:15, and be checked in, in uniform, and in the bakery by 6:00. The extra "fun" thing about next week is that I'm sharing my shift with a sorta-friend from my class, and she has asked me for a ride to the (on-campus) cafe where we'll be working from her apartment, which is actually out of my way. So I'll be getting up an extra fifteen minutes or so early in order to get us both there on time. Possibly more. Fun times! At least she offered to reimburse me for the gas, sigh.
The most "fun" thing in the world on top of that is that I start another class on Monday, which goes from 4:00pm to about 6:00pm. It's taught by the same woman who teaches the cake decorating classes, who taught the subject poorly and pushed us unreasonably hard. (Each class period was two hours. We decorated a cake a day, from design to finish, and she wanted us done at least half an hour before we had to leave so we could critique. And then we still had to clean our piping tips and bags. She also plays favorites, consciously or not.) I had greatly been looking forward to the class itself, Baking for Dietary Restrictions, and now I am only moderately looking forward to it. I desperately want to learn the material (I've got some gluten-intolerant friends and my dad's diabetic, plus I'm all about accessibility) but to the best of my knowledge there is no actual book involved and I've already expressed my doubts about the instructor's teaching ability.
Anyway, between that class and the breakfast shift on MTW, that's three days of the next two weeks I'll be at school for twelve hours. The only plus I can think of (aside from maybe learning some extra neat and helpful stuff in BfDR) is that I've got about three hours between BfDR and the previous class where I can sit and do my homework. With any luck, I'll be keeping good pace with my assignments within a matter of weeks and will be able to start writing and/or crocheting on the side.
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...
