Category Archives: culinary school

The Semester Ends Today

Some classmates invited me to an affordable post-finals meal at a Vietnamese restaurant in Oakland Chinatown; I’m not sure which one.  After that, I plan on trying out The Trappist. Ho ho ho. View Larger Map

Not going to be fun

I’m doing a terrible job at getting ready for these last three finals.  I haven’t even worked on that final project due Wednesday. Whatever happens, a bar and a few beers will be integral to the end-of-the-semester party that will start between 4:30pm-5pm on the 16th.  I’ll let some classmates know of these plans tomorrow.

Going to miss my first class this semester

Damn it.  I don’t think I’m going to be healthy enough to step foot in the kitchen tomorrow and with Wednesday being a day off for Veteran’s day that means no kitchen time this week.  Maybe I’ll see if I can go in either Tues, Thurs, or Friday morning to make up for the lost [...]

Relapse

I’m going to take responsibility for my actions and admit that my mid-term will not be done by 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon because I procrastinated.  This is something I did way too often years ago, but here I am, 32-years-old, doing it again after having a great start to this first semester back in school after [...]

You know what?

I’m not going to stress about the mid-term tomorrow and pretend I’m one of those people who gets As without having to study all that much.  Our teacher did say she’d do a quick review before the test.  I am still going to lose sleep studying tonight, but it will be in a relaxed state [...]

This was going to be the night.

I really felt that this would be the first Sunday in a while where I got a good night’s sleep.  The problem is I completely forgot about a mid-term tomorrow in Safety & Sanitation at 2pm.  I probably haven’t been too clear about my schedule or anything on this blog, but I have to wake [...]