Monday, February 14th, 2011     4:46p
I've a few minutes before class, so I thought it best to take the time to write. I slept in this morning, with a load of laundry I needed to do, and an MG club meeting to get to. So a bit of a rush heading out this morning. Business for today's MG meeting was just that; business. As we are right now, the club is in desparate need for more members. So tra to raise awareness of the club, we're working on getting a booth set up for two weeks to bring in new members. This will also raise money for the club, since we'll be doing a taste tripping event on the second week. I've also checked my grades thusfar, and a little surprised by the results; good and bad. Classical European is still 99%, as is Garde Manger, which I'm pleasantly surprised by, but Management is down to 80%. Better than I feared, but I was surprised I got half credit on participation certain weeks. I wonder if that may have been from playing with the camera from MG to break up the dulldrum of the lecture. Work last night was interestin, since Molly trusted me to decorate some cupcakes, with much trebidation. Admittedly the first few I produced were subpar, but I quickly got the hang of it.   There's more that I could and should write on, but I need to get some coffee in me before class night for my Garde Manger midterm.

Friday, February 11th, 2011     12:17p

With my bought of insomnia earlier this week, and the dinner last night, it feels like this week was only three days long. I've been so busy this week that this is the first free moment I've had. The dinner went incredibly well; I heard nothing but praise with from all of our guests, as well as Madeline, the school president, and Chef Mark. It was a fun and busy night. I wish I had more to write about, but my mind is a bit wrecked from how little sleep I've gotten this week. Besides, I need to run off to work.

12:50p

I just had a wonderful ego boost. I bumped into Chef Mark out in the hall, and he stopped me to shake my hand and thank me for helping with the dinner last night. He also said "You have a bright future, Dylan." I can't say that anyone has told me that as sincerely as Chef Mark did. Just that small comment made me feel the best I ever have.

1:28p

Another moment of ego boosting. Soon after finishing my last entry, I bumped into Chef Franc, the chef many of the students say is a real hard-ass. He said "Thank you young man (Chef Franc barely remembers anyone's name, so he calls everyone "young man/lady" or for the young ladies in class he likes, "Giiiiiirl") for helping last night. I really appreciate it." It was the last part that really boost me. Chef Franc's a very short, and straight forward type, with a bit of a little hard ass in there. But for him to sincerely thank a student; that's something. I felt myself dosing on the drive to work, and have some time to kill, so I stopped here at the Starbucks here in town for some coffee. It's a nice quiet place to sit and write, with just a little sizzle coming from the "kitchen" of sorts that they have. Right kind of place for me to recollect my headspace that I seemed to have lost track of this week. It's interesting what little it takes to put one at ease sometimes.