Almost there! Tomorrow is the final and, wine and mixology practical exams, then I will have officially completed a year of college. Harambee! Moved some more stuff out to my car, the truck is packed and there are a few dealies in the back seat. Not sure how the rest of it will be managed, but I have 34 hours and 46 minutes to figure it out.
Craig left this afternoon, not without difficulties... I'll be sure to hit him up in the winter, after he completes his Disney internship. I can't wait to hear how well he did or about how they kicked him out of the kitchen and made him work as a mascot. TBC... Still trying to figure out where trash goes. They close the trash room a few days ago, declared a fifty dollar fine for leaving garbage in the halls or bathrooms (which has been ignored), and volunteered no instuctions or suggestions about where to take our refuse! I initially suggested throwing everything out oh the window, but the decision against that was unanimous.
What else? I got stationed directly across from d-bag Mike in the mixology lab, so I have to deal with him being a spazz, being very proud of himself, and watch him do everything very quickly and incorrectly. I have watched him cheat, flipping though his notebook during an exam, and today he broke his glass mixer by scooping ice with it, which he has been expressly instructed to not do! Being from Detroit, possibly the origin of "snitches get stitches", I have witheld this information, even when he told the teacher that it was because of the cheap glasses we use. It is a quarter-inch pint glass, not a flimsy wine glass. I am really tempted to talk to the teacher about this after class tomorrow. I should also tell him about all of the cigarette breaks bad Mike has been sneaking off for. Two withing fifteen minutes today. He was supposed to have zero. I really hope that if I ever see that jerk again, it is on Cops, and he is resisting arrest.
Some good news. I tried out for the ICC team for next year, and got the spot. It sounds like it will be a tremendous time and energy commitment, I heard one girl say forty hours of practice per week, but what an exciting opportunity. They said it was my temperament and the way that I got along with the current team members that got me the spot. I felt pretty good about the work I did at the try-out, and progressively better, and more confident about the job I had done. My tourne still sucks, but I saw some that were just bigger around than pencils. It'll look great on my resume, and hopefully get me functioning on a higher capacity. I will be an alternate for skills, I learned today, but I feel like I should be able to catch my tourne up to the others by the end of the summer. The first meeting will be August 23rd+24th, and I said I could probably figure out a way to get out here for that. hopefully the train will be reasonable, or a cheap flight. Last choice will be with Mega Bus. I hate spending money to come visit so close to the start of the school year, but this is an investment that should have a return, and, depending on when classes start, it might be a pretty reasonable time to move back and get set up... wherever I am living.
Not sure where we are staying next year. I would like to start a dinner club (supper club?) and have dinner parties with different friends hosting and taking turns cooking meals for whoever shows up. Five or ten dollars/plate, maybe a cheap wine or beer, and just be awesome, and do awesome things. The plan right now is for Brian, Han, David (another Korean... uh oh), and I to find a suitable apartment for the four of us to stay in together. The issue is finding an arrangement everyone can agree on. No big surprise, but there are an awful lot of tempting options with awesoome sounding people to just rent a room for myself. These strangers would probably support having dinner parties, too, and there might be way less farting and fart noises to tolerate. I would like to live very close, but that might involve looking up and down blocks here, instead of just browsing Craigslist (the real one, though I would like to see a list put together by the Craig Factor). Brian and Nikki are going to check out something-something at Kent Farms (?) tomorrow at three o'clock. I have serious doubts about a place where you have to rent the window unit air conditioner for the year as a seperate cost, and where there are only three bedrooms for four people. I haven't really minded sharing a room THAT much, but how do you decide who has to share? Is their rent cheaper? Han volunteered to sleep in the dining room... Not sure about that arrangement. I feel like it isn't really worth sweating over until closer to the start date.
So what is next? Try to finish this class with an A+, which would give me a total of 8 A+s and 6 As. If that doesn't work out, I guess I can settle for seven of each. Then, show Lilas around PVD for a couple of days, race our cars back to PA and stay with Sharie for a day or so, and then go HOME! Real home, not South Hall 207 home, where so many people have the daily goal of destroying the toilets and not washing their hands! Once there, I will take a week to put out resumes at respectable restaurants, try to clean the house up, and the work my lil buns off for a few months, and try to pay off my credit cards. Yay... Then I get to do it all over again, and try to get an internship for next summer. I think I really want the one in Hawaii, after talking to Mr. Weill about it. He lived there for four years, and at dinner while we were discussing it, he just kind of leaned back smiling, and said "go to Hawaii." I don't take a lot of convincing sometimes. The New York or Chicago internship can wait until senior year. I should swap this daydreaming for regular dreaming.
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