Everyday Anxieties and Adventures in the Kitchen
In addition to the events at the restaurant, I will also talk about the progress of my own hobby project. I share the adventures of my seemingly adventurous life with the readers through a blog, while constantly searching for my own place and purpose in life.
July 8, 2024
One of the waitresses was yelled at today in the restaurant by the other waiters. I also had a rather strange opinion about the girl before. I don’t know exactly why they yelled at her – or at each other; I guess the girl’s style also influenced the incident. I think she’s a bit of a tramp, who would look great as a barmaid, but this is supposed to be an elegant restaurant.
We had a large group at lunchtime. In the evening, the manager put up a letter on the wall, in which each colleague on duty was mentioned by name and addressed with a thank-you sentence. Our scandalous waitress somehow missed out on the letter.
I redesigned the website again; now I also have an English-language (travelinglaci.com) website address. There are still many things that don’t work properly on this blog site, but it’s just a hobby project that I originally intended for my own entertainment. Then it turned out that writing a diary is like level one, and a month later – while editing the blog post – I reread what I wrote and summarize my life a bit like an outsider. If the travelinglaci project has no other benefit, it helps to look at my own life from a different perspective, so it’s worth the half-hour to an hour I spend on it every day.
Tomorrow, I have to respond to the messages that I have been neglecting for a week. It happened again that I responded to anything on my day off.
Anyway, today was a normal weekday. I wouldn’t say that this is a very bad place at the moment, but it’s not good either. These two sentences are true for many things and many people on this property. I have to admit that my work is not bad, but it’s not good. That’s why I can say that it’s never worse, but it’s still a crazy place. Plus, the advantage is that I’m not really tired; for example, I didn’t work yesterday afternoon; I went to the city to see an exhibition, and today I had time to think about tomorrow and even had time for laziness and doing nothing – I dedicated the whole afternoon to this. I didn’t have much to do in the kitchen today anyway. I helped the pastry chef, who had infinite patience with me.
My hands have been shaking since my childhood, which I attribute to my lack of good manual dexterity; I can’t decorate nicely. I can draw nicely with a compass and ruler, but freehand never worked for me. Well, and today I needed freehand decoration. It’s not working, but I won’t give up; even if I won’t be a champion, I will definitely succeed in making a normal-looking dessert at some point.
So, I just can’t find my place, so I don’t have my goal in this kitchen anymore, why and what I should be good at. Today, I worked for two different people, yesterday (Sunday) morning I had so much to do that I had to clean, in the afternoon I didn’t even go to work, and tomorrow I’ll be washing dishes; so what is my task, what should I be really good at?
