Back Downtown and in the Sh*t

I've been so M.I.A. and not in a cool, Paper Planes way at all. During the holidays I began training and helping to open (in what limited capacity a server can) a new restaurant in the village. All of us brand new to this venture and figuring it out together has been really interesting and stressful and tiring, but I like not feeling like the new kid (because we're all new), and all my fellow servers are great, and the money's much better (so far) than at the last job. 

Now, I thought I.R.C. would be my last serving job, but in an attempt always to leave one dissatisfying server job I inevitably go searching for another, thus finding myself stuck in a vicious cycle of sorts. Though I'm a little disappointed in myself in this respect, I have vowed to hang up my apron by the time I'm thirty, and with this small though important resolution, I am mollified for the moment. 

So post-Christmas finds me working both jobs, putting in especially long hours at the new one. When I am certain I have the job and opening night is upon us, I give as much notice as I can to I.R.C. Suddenly and quietly I make my exit, not even having much time to reflect on how important that job was to me for many months. 

Indeed I have been so busy with the opening of the new restaurant that I've barely been home, have hardly cracked the refrigerator door. I work five days a week, from 3:30 pm to around 1 am. And I'm averaging two meals a day: family meal at 4:15 pm and the taco truck next to my train stop at 1:30 am. By the time I get home it's very late, and I'm exhausted not only by the late hour but by the physical exertion of running up and down a staircase for seven hours without stop. 

I usually pull myself out of bed at around noon and get ready for work, leaving the Heights by 2 pm for the forty minute train ride ahead of me. I only have time to get ready for work and feed and walk the poodle. 

All of that being said, it's been an amazing couple of weeks being open. This realm of the restaurant universe is completely new to me in many ways...