Tuesday, February 8th, 2011     1:35p
The last few days seem like a blur. This not only comes from what all has been done in the last few days, but also from the fact that I'm going on to my 33rd waking hour. I didn't sleep at all last night or this morning. More of a matter of negligence than insomnia. Sunday morning, before work, I purchased a game that caught my eye for the Xbox 360, called Monday Night Combat. It's recently been ported to the PC via Steam, and with my extra income from near full-time work, I couldn't turn it down at $15. So that was part of the reason for the all-night; being a slack-ass. Given how busy my schedule is anymore a moment (or in this case, a whole night) of relaxation is welcome. Despite being the night of the Superbowl, was was busy Sunday night. Travis had me bake up about 40 trays of cookies, along with doing breakout for the morning baker by myself, on top of regular cleanup. I got everything baked and boxed, but not labelled, and still I got out of work 30 minutes late. Not that big of a deal, since I can take on more hours without reaching that dreaded point of overtime. On the school side of things, everything is much more busy. Yesterday was the "VIP" registration for classes. As of right now I'm scheduled to be at the school Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for Management by Menu, Asian Cuisine with Chef Josh (which I'm looking forward to the most), and World Cuisine with the new adjunct Chef Breugh. In the MG club meeting we learned spherification, which is used to make faux caviar. Originally we had scheduled this week for learning agar clarification, but since we have a big dinner even to prep for, which will include an apple caviar, it was better to cover the material now. I don't remember if I mentioned this dinner in my entries in my previous journal or not. At any rate, there is a big dinner being held on the 11th floor, in the school's student run restaurant. The Garde Manger class is being highlighted by the dinner by making a buffet for the event. The MG club was also tapped for this event to get more awareness for the club with the big school executive types that this dinner is being held for. The idea of MG helping with the event is simply to go "Hey, look at us! Look at this cool stuff we make!" This might then get word spread to other Ai campuses to get a campus wide club going, like what Ai has for the fashion students and the Beau Monde club. However, I'm getting tapped twice by this dinner, since I'm in the class being highlighted. Chef Lechti is back from...whatever it was he was away for and a bit agast at what all needs to be done. Not only does some of the prepwork for the dinner have to be done by the class, but he also has to cover the material missed due to the weather last week, this week's material, but also the midterm practical next week. For the midterm we're to create a themed buffet table, and present it properly with strong lines that guide the eye into the buffet. Being partnered with Mikey has already proven interesting. Our group brainstormed in the library for nearly two hours thinking on our theme, what to serve, and how to present it. I think those two hours were the most fun I've had in the class so far; brainstorming ideas left and right. That does remind me; I've a quiz I need to finish before class today. Would I have remember it in the current fog my head is in today from the lack of sleep, if I hadn't written this entry? No way to tell now. It's fairly short, so I'm not pressed for time. I might even bang out some of my recipe cards for European as well.