rocket man
the training thing is finally wrapping up here in Toledo. three of our seven went home last Sunday and since then we've all just kinda gone off and done our own thing. being together with these people for three solid weeks, pretty much 24/7 made it seem like we were back in summer camp or some other such illusion of life. after nearly half of us left we realized that it's just not going to be the same.
aside from the usual crises (is that right? my memory is gone right now) that i have to deal with in the kitchen on a day to day basis, the final, ultimate curveball was thrown at us today around 1:30. the water main for our half of the site broke in not one but two places. we ended up having to shut down for business at 2 p.m. and essentially for the rest of the day because we have no safe water on site and won't have any such for three to five days. water pressure was restored at 6 p.m., but we can't use it. what this means is that tomorrow we're having 200 gallons of water trucked in so we can open, we're buying an absurd amount of Pepsi products, and an even larger amount of ice. supposedly this will last us through lunch. on a Friday. i'm honestly shaking in my boots at the prospect of having to go through a Friday dinner with only 200 gallons of water on hand. i'm fairly confident in saying that on a regular basis we use 200 gallons of water during a typical hour.
i'm not looking forward to this final weekend at all.
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i finally miss Pittsburgh. i'm tired of being here, i miss people (for maybe the first time in a couple years), i miss the usualness of life. i'm tired of smoking over a pack a day, i'm sick of drinking myself to sleep every night, i hate being alone. i don't like the hotel at all anymore, meeting new people constantly has my senses overloaded, and i'm honestly sick of being told that i'm doing an amazing job with all the pressure and responsiblity while constantly questioning wheather or not i even know what i'm doing half the time.
i miss the eight hour days instead of the twelve hour days. i want to be around the people i've come to know for months and years not the people i know because i have to. i don't like being disconnected from the few people that i actually care about and really want to talk to right now. the first time i traveled through Cambridge, OH i noted to myself that there's no reason in the world why anyone would ever want to actually stop there other than to get gas and maybe grab some fast food. i think i hate Toledo even more than Cambridge.
aside from the usual crises (is that right? my memory is gone right now) that i have to deal with in the kitchen on a day to day basis, the final, ultimate curveball was thrown at us today around 1:30. the water main for our half of the site broke in not one but two places. we ended up having to shut down for business at 2 p.m. and essentially for the rest of the day because we have no safe water on site and won't have any such for three to five days. water pressure was restored at 6 p.m., but we can't use it. what this means is that tomorrow we're having 200 gallons of water trucked in so we can open, we're buying an absurd amount of Pepsi products, and an even larger amount of ice. supposedly this will last us through lunch. on a Friday. i'm honestly shaking in my boots at the prospect of having to go through a Friday dinner with only 200 gallons of water on hand. i'm fairly confident in saying that on a regular basis we use 200 gallons of water during a typical hour.
i'm not looking forward to this final weekend at all.
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i finally miss Pittsburgh. i'm tired of being here, i miss people (for maybe the first time in a couple years), i miss the usualness of life. i'm tired of smoking over a pack a day, i'm sick of drinking myself to sleep every night, i hate being alone. i don't like the hotel at all anymore, meeting new people constantly has my senses overloaded, and i'm honestly sick of being told that i'm doing an amazing job with all the pressure and responsiblity while constantly questioning wheather or not i even know what i'm doing half the time.
i miss the eight hour days instead of the twelve hour days. i want to be around the people i've come to know for months and years not the people i know because i have to. i don't like being disconnected from the few people that i actually care about and really want to talk to right now. the first time i traveled through Cambridge, OH i noted to myself that there's no reason in the world why anyone would ever want to actually stop there other than to get gas and maybe grab some fast food. i think i hate Toledo even more than Cambridge.