Snow Day

Snow in the South gets pretty interesting. The roads didn't ice at all and there was all of 5 (maybe less) inches of snow on the ground and school got canceled. Snow days at work, however, are a whole different ballgame.

Saturday, it snowed again for a few hours. We didn't have any reservations until 6:30, and we were all finished setting up our stations by about 4:00. So... once there was enough snow on the cars out back, the kitchen staff went to the tiny parking lot out back in our chef coats and aprons (who needs a jacket, hat, or gloves or any of that mess?) and threw snowballs at each other for 10 or 15 minutes or so!! I think that's the most fun I've had in a while. It was quite a sight, seeing my boss and my coworker running around in chef coats and white aprons and chef pants lobbing snowballs and ducking behind cars for cover. I even tripped once and fell on my bum >.> but it was fun. In the end we brought one tiny snowball in and got the dishwasher/prep cook with it! At the end of the shift, after we had all eaten family meal and I was about to walk out the door, Chef grabs my shoulder like he's going to say something important and all of a sudden WHAM! I get a snowball to the back of the neck. Needless to say, I ran him down, got the Maitre D' to pin him, and got him back. As an extra bonus, the Maitre D' had to walk me to my car b/c of some security issues that got Chef worried about any of us walking to our cars alone, and then he made a huge snowmass out of what was on top of the other chef's car and I think he got Chef back for me. Goooood times.

Best of all, I'm barely sick anymore so I can actually enjoy this! I got food poisoning Sunday so I was DEATHLY ill Monday; my school's mid-term exams started Tuesday but I was feeling wickedly congested throughout the entire day; Wednesday the same effects but lessened: there was a battle of sinuses as my body kept switching between a stuffed nose and a congested throat; Thursday no school, but I walked two miles to the grocery in 3-inch heel boots because I had no vehicle and the buses weren't running my street at that hour and my mom INSISTED that I wear boots and not my work shoes... fortunately I didn't have to go in to work that day as the congestion battle was still in full swing; Friday I only had one exam and my congestion was mostly faded and work was pretty good; and then yesterday (Saturday) was just awesome.

I'm having issues co-ordinating a food plan for a CON (Unitarian Universalist High School Religious Ed. convention of win) as there's some conflict of leadership between myself/the other co-leaders of the group and some members of other groups who want to muscle into our group even though we would be very well prepared and have everything covered that we needed to if they left us alone. Plus, my plan for a vegan/vegetarian weekend was shot down... It wasn't going to be entirely veg-friendly in my original plan, but I wasn't able to make that message clear when explaining it to the class b/c I kept getting interrupted. Alas. These bums will not get the benefit of the incredible black-bean patties that I got to make at work. Only those who sign up to help with food-prep will, so nyah. *shudder* One of the meals is SANDWICHES. Ugh. I can't bring myself to stoop to the level of cold-cut platters if I'm in charge of food... but that's a whole different beast that I'm going to stop ranting about now. I'm going to take the advice of my dad and make a Facebook group for this CON so that we can get some effective planning done before the CON happens. And it happens in 2 weeks. So we need to get everything together.

On another extremely awesome note, my culinary team won regionals so now we're headed to State competition in March along with two of our teams plus a team from a different school competing for cash in a competition THREE DAYS BEFORE STATES.