As a child, I always thought that people worked Monday through Friday roughly from eight or nine in the morning to five or six at night give or take a few hours. Summers in college, while my friends worked weekend or night hours at retail jobs, I enjoyed a pretty standard government work week (albeit one with a crazy long commute). I assumed that after I graduated, I would again be working a "normal" schedule. So far that hasn't happened.
After weekday weekends and holiday pay with
NPS (National Park Service), I thought my work week might normalize when I started working at the R-Chives. Not a chance. Currently, I work Tuesday to Saturday with regular working hours on Tuesday and Saturday (if working on a Saturday in it of itself is normal) and from
noonish to nine the three other days. I also eat "dinner" at four in the afternoon on late days. Dinner at four seemed odd at first, but over time it has grown on me like mold on cheese...Not entirely welcome, but not without its benefits either. It's blue cheese for a reason,
yah?
I particularly enjoy the four o'clock "dinner" posse that I belong to at the R-Chives. We squeeze into a table three nights(?) a week, socialize, make fun of each other, and generally admire each others' culinary ingenuity. When the crew learned that one of our charter and favorite members, Jill, would be leaving for New Mexico, we knew that we needed to celebrate Jill "dinner" posse style. So, today we ordered three XL pizzas (white, cheese, and pepperoni), drank diet soda, and
desserted on my peanut butter swirl brownies. I also brought in veggies and light ranch dip to even out the grease and garlic butter. As you can tell from the leftovers, the dinner posse devoured most of the pizza and a fair share of the veggies and dip to boot. Good job, team! Goodbye, Jill ) : I will miss you A LOT.
*For more on the brownies and their preparation, please read my next post*
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