On Friday night Hope, Keri, and I were cocktail waitresses at a jazz club in Cambridge. It was pretty fun and spiffy--pay, tips, food, and a free concert. But I realized that I am terribly shy around strangers. I have such a hard time just going up to people and talking, let alone taking orders and handing out checks. This was my first real waitressing job and I like the way it feels, kind of like acting with the "backstage" and the "performance," but I'm not sure if I'll be doing it again. I got the job on "waiting experience." The only experience I've had was serving a dinner party in Paris that my friend's parents gave. There I dropped one of the rolls, picked it up, dusted it off, and put it back on the platter, all in front of the American, Australian, and French diplomats at the party. This is why I'm not going into the foreign service. That dinner party was also my only experience with foie gras. I thought it was the most horrible stuff I've ever tasted.
A recommendation: Stage Beauty. I watched it for the second time tonight and liked it just as well as I did the first time. It made me love Claire Danes. (But not like that.)
Another recommendation: Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Delicious chills. (Sorry, I've been reading Anne of Green Gables so I just talk like that.)
Goodnight.
Posted by linnea at November 7, 2005 1:49 AMI am a beilever in talking like Anne, with an E. Dude, I have so been meaning to watch Stage Beauty. I am going to netflix it next. Also, I am imagining you in a french made costume dusting off foie gras... and I am smiling.
Posted by: Natalie at November 7, 2005 2:25 AMSomeone told me that the ten second rule has been clinically proven sound. Thus, I rule that you were not guilty of trying to poison all the diplomats. Maybe you had the motive, but since you ate all the foie gras, you hadn't the means any more.
Posted by: funke at November 7, 2005 12:42 PMI do love Coraline. Read it earlier this semester.
Posted by: Eb at November 7, 2005 3:17 PMi miss you. covenant isn't the same without y'all. and bravo for picking up that roll. starving kids in china/africa/some other place that your mom tells you about and all that.
Posted by: amy k at November 11, 2005 1:14 AMI can't find the post where you requested the Foreman quote, but if you are still interested, all one has to do is google "Covenant, sexual tension, Foreman, Steele" and this link appears: http://covblogs.com/steele/archives/000899.html . What do people come to your blog for?
Posted by: funke at November 14, 2005 11:45 AMsarah, for some reason the word combination by which people find my blog is "armenian, sufjan, sword."
Posted by: linnea at November 14, 2005 10:58 PMThat is a much better reason to visit a blog than merely desiring to know "how much does one pound of potatoes cost in Indiana."
Posted by: funke at November 15, 2005 12:01 PM