When To Place Your Bet
Listening: Everything's falling, and I am included in that. Oh, how I try to be just okay. Yeah, but all I ever really wanted was a little piece of you.
Over the past two days, the price of the airline tickets that I want have dropped over a hundred dollars. It seems that if I were to buy now, using my vouchers, I would only have to pay seventy-five dollars plus a ticketing fee and junk fees. That's amazing! Well, if I were paying that much without the vouchers, that would be amazing, but you know what they say about beggars and choosers.
So, I now have a bit of a dilemma. Do I buy now and take the current price, or do I wait a little bit longer and see if it goes down even more. Back about two or there weeks ago, my father came at me with a fare that was about fifty dollars cheaper than the one that I'm looking at now. I didn't jump on those fares because I was told that the fall fares weren't in yet. In some ways, I think that I should have gone ahead and gotten that ticket. Who knows if it will ever get as low as that first ticket?
I think that if I'm really sensible, I'll call Delta tomorrow and have a ticket put on hold so that I can pick it up on Saturday morning. I think that would be the safe and sensible thing to do. I think overall, I'm a pretty safe and sensible guy, though I wish that I wasn't so much. We'll see what happens though.
Something exciting has been happening lately too. I've been exchanging e-mails with a fellow traveler. She's going to be running around Europe at the same time that I will be, though she has a completely different itinerary. Our itineraries overlap in Paris for a couple of days, so we might get together for a meal or something. She's interested in the culinary arts as well, but not in the professional way that I am... because we know that the only reason I'm going to Europe is to "research local produce, cuisines and confections in a very intellectual manner." Anyways, I'm excited to know that I will have at least one other person to break bread with. I could eat an entire baguette by myself, but I think I would feel disgusting afterwards. And then I would have to drink a bottle of French wine to help me forget feeling disgusting, and then gorge myself on artisanal French cheeses to get over the hangover. And in order to properly enjoy the artisanal French cheeses properly, I would have to eat another entire baguette. It would be a delicious, I mean vicious cycle.
I realized the other day that when I get back from Europe, I may not be able to go back to work at Chez Henri. They're in the process of hiring another person for the Garde Manger station, because the one full time guy who works that station with me can't work seven days a week for upwards of ten or twelve hours a day. Since Jose quit, it has been Greg as the full timer, me as the part-timer, and there have been three other people who fill in a shift here and a shift there. I'm assuming that the Chef will hire someone on full time. With two full timers, there may not be much room for me to work there. Even if it's only one or two shifts a week, I would gladly pick them up when I get back.
This is not to say that I'm not planning for the worst case scenario, being that they have no available work for me. I know that they're looking for someone at Pigalle, and I think that I could get my foot in the door at either Spire or Upstairs at the Square. I think that regardless, I would want to pick up a night or a shift at another restaurant. I think that it would broaden my exposure to the industry. Maybe it would even get me networking connections into a restaurant in France.
Something else that I have been thinking about. I have had all this anger and sadness built up in me that I have been trying to let go of. The more that I try to let it go, it grips me tighter. As I was in the shower tonight after my shift, I thought to myself, maybe I should just stop trying to let go of it. Just let the anger and sadness be. Maybe then it will go away on it's own. Hopefully, I'll leave it in my laundry basket at home before I head off to Europe. I have heard that bitterness is a heavy thing to carry around with you, and I'm pretty sure I'll already have thirty-five pounds strapped to my back.
Regardless of sadness and the possiblity of me not being able to work at Chez Henri after I get back, life is good. I do well for myself, I think. Hopefully, I'm on an upswing. I guess with an impending trip to Europe, it's got to be.
Over the past two days, the price of the airline tickets that I want have dropped over a hundred dollars. It seems that if I were to buy now, using my vouchers, I would only have to pay seventy-five dollars plus a ticketing fee and junk fees. That's amazing! Well, if I were paying that much without the vouchers, that would be amazing, but you know what they say about beggars and choosers.
So, I now have a bit of a dilemma. Do I buy now and take the current price, or do I wait a little bit longer and see if it goes down even more. Back about two or there weeks ago, my father came at me with a fare that was about fifty dollars cheaper than the one that I'm looking at now. I didn't jump on those fares because I was told that the fall fares weren't in yet. In some ways, I think that I should have gone ahead and gotten that ticket. Who knows if it will ever get as low as that first ticket?
I think that if I'm really sensible, I'll call Delta tomorrow and have a ticket put on hold so that I can pick it up on Saturday morning. I think that would be the safe and sensible thing to do. I think overall, I'm a pretty safe and sensible guy, though I wish that I wasn't so much. We'll see what happens though.
Something exciting has been happening lately too. I've been exchanging e-mails with a fellow traveler. She's going to be running around Europe at the same time that I will be, though she has a completely different itinerary. Our itineraries overlap in Paris for a couple of days, so we might get together for a meal or something. She's interested in the culinary arts as well, but not in the professional way that I am... because we know that the only reason I'm going to Europe is to "research local produce, cuisines and confections in a very intellectual manner." Anyways, I'm excited to know that I will have at least one other person to break bread with. I could eat an entire baguette by myself, but I think I would feel disgusting afterwards. And then I would have to drink a bottle of French wine to help me forget feeling disgusting, and then gorge myself on artisanal French cheeses to get over the hangover. And in order to properly enjoy the artisanal French cheeses properly, I would have to eat another entire baguette. It would be a delicious, I mean vicious cycle.
I realized the other day that when I get back from Europe, I may not be able to go back to work at Chez Henri. They're in the process of hiring another person for the Garde Manger station, because the one full time guy who works that station with me can't work seven days a week for upwards of ten or twelve hours a day. Since Jose quit, it has been Greg as the full timer, me as the part-timer, and there have been three other people who fill in a shift here and a shift there. I'm assuming that the Chef will hire someone on full time. With two full timers, there may not be much room for me to work there. Even if it's only one or two shifts a week, I would gladly pick them up when I get back.
This is not to say that I'm not planning for the worst case scenario, being that they have no available work for me. I know that they're looking for someone at Pigalle, and I think that I could get my foot in the door at either Spire or Upstairs at the Square. I think that regardless, I would want to pick up a night or a shift at another restaurant. I think that it would broaden my exposure to the industry. Maybe it would even get me networking connections into a restaurant in France.
Something else that I have been thinking about. I have had all this anger and sadness built up in me that I have been trying to let go of. The more that I try to let it go, it grips me tighter. As I was in the shower tonight after my shift, I thought to myself, maybe I should just stop trying to let go of it. Just let the anger and sadness be. Maybe then it will go away on it's own. Hopefully, I'll leave it in my laundry basket at home before I head off to Europe. I have heard that bitterness is a heavy thing to carry around with you, and I'm pretty sure I'll already have thirty-five pounds strapped to my back.
Regardless of sadness and the possiblity of me not being able to work at Chez Henri after I get back, life is good. I do well for myself, I think. Hopefully, I'm on an upswing. I guess with an impending trip to Europe, it's got to be.
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