Sunday, June 29, 2008
Note to self: Do not lock keys in car.
I like it when the title has nothing to do with the subject.
So I'm looking for another place to work (obviously) and it's...predictable. But I would love to just cook for people. I'm being totally serious here: $7-15 per person (depending on what kind of food you want) and I'll come to your house, buy all ingredients necessary, cook a really nice dinner and dessert, clean the entire kitchen and wash any dirty dishes in the house. It's like a personal chef and kitchen-maid all in one!
Hmm...Kitchenmade...I like it! It's a play on kitchenaid (the greatest invention ever), maid (to clean the kitchen) and made (because everything's...made). I'm going with it.
Oh wait. It's already been gone with. Damnit! Same idea and everything! Well, it is a pretty obvious pun.
Oh well, I still want to cook for people, even if I don't have a name for it yet. So if you want a nice dinner any night; contact me!
posted by Katie Coffman @ 9:18 PM
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Funny how new jobs always tell you things that aren't true
I was so excited to start work! Orientation led me to believe the normal shift lasted about 6 hours, so I thought, "Okay, I can make that work." Only I didn't listen to the hidden meaning behind, "you won't work longer than a 6 hour shift," i.e. normally you'll get 2-3 hours. So! Time to find something early in the morning! I might even have to do something like a stocking shift...funny how each job I get is less responsibility, less money, less respect than the last job. As in my first job I supervised people, second I waitressed and served and hosted and all that stuff, third I did the same kind of stuff only in worse clothing and in random places, fourth I'm just a hostess, fifth'll probably be stocker. (Haha! stocker sounds like stalker...)
Holy shit I do everything backwardsly! Sorry, I'm epiphanizing right now... (And making up words):
Each relationship I've had has been progressively shorter and less serious - leading to now which is absolutely nill; each job has been progressively shorter and less serious; each place I've lived has been progressively worse (though not necessarily shorter, and not cheaper either). Weird...
Maybe this is how your 20's are supposed to start out as, and I started too high. Or maybe I've just made some not-too-foreward-thinking decisions in my life. Or maybe I'm just seeing the past through that wonderful veil of nostalgia which makes you want to go back to the time when everything was easier.
Oh well! It'll get better
posted by Katie Coffman @ 12:21 AM
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Sometimes, I like being not ugly
I walked down the street to post my car payment (a painful experience, each and every month) with 3 dollars in my pocket and ice cream on my mind. Unfortunately, the liquor store's selection of ice cream seemed slightly old (as in, I'm not sure they even make some of that stuff anymore). So I crossed the street to this little tiny mexican restaurant (of which there are as many as there are liquor stores in my area. I.e. a shitton). It had an "A" rating, so no worries there. Instead of getting one taco and a cup of horchata, I got 3 tacos and a bucket of horchata! I love horchata, and this stuff has got to be some of the greatest I've ever tasted. And the asada tacos...delicious. Part of me thinks it's because he couldn't understand a word I was saying, but 3 dollars is three dollars, and I still got a whole lot more than I paid for. Yey for language barriers!
Aprendo espanol, pero soy muy timido hablar. Cuando hablo con una persona espanol, siempre hablo ingles. Por que? no se, pero yo soy muy timido. Goddamnit (como se dice en espanol?) Un otro problemo es hablo Alleman cuando no se uno verbo o algo. Para ejemplo: "Lo siento senor, no se was du sprechen. Ich konnte nicht was Ich spreche! Bitteschon." (Se esta ^ es muy imperfecto, lo siento a las personas hablan espanol, und bitteschon Deutchlanders.)
It's a good thing I know what that says...
On another note: Downtown Pasadena sucks when it comes to parking. Even if you work there you have to pay! Bullshit I say.
posted by Katie Coffman @ 8:30 PM
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
And another eventful day!
Went to school this morning, and it by 9:oo it was 90 degrees in the lab. Whee! So everyone wanted to go home early (especially since we finished making our cakes by 12, we had nothing to do for the other 4 hours) but my chef instructors' boss wouldn't let us go. Then I fainted! The firemen had to come and everything. It was pretty cool ('cause I went down in the walk-in fridge, good choice I s'pose). So because of that, my chef instructors' boss let us go early. I'm a hero!
...kinda...
I might have a place to live that's really close to school for cheap! And I might have a second job with a catering company that actually pays well! Hmm...lots of mights...But as an actuality: I joined LAFitness so now I have a gym with a pool to go to! That makes me really, really excited.
Random bit of useless information:
Stalin got run over by two seperate horse drawn carriages over the course of two years as a child; one of which made him go in the hospital for months and severly disfigured his arm. Seriously? How does someone that dumb become the most influential leader of one of the greatest super-powers of the 20th century? He should have died then. Bastard.
posted by Katie Coffman @ 9:21 PM
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Friday, June 20, 2008
I like the 'Back' button!
Without the ever-important back button, I think I would have ruined the internet by now. I end up in weird places when I click on things. Somehow I went from Brigitte's web log (I refuse goddamnit) to something in portugese in one little move of my finger! Amazing.
I've been getting bored recently so I read about Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia...because I find that stuff really interesting. Go me?
I have a job now! Finally. Effing Pasadena and its 100-degree-weather-which-makes-its-inhabitants-leave. But that means everything is starting to come together!
And I almost died today! I should really not drive anywhere near 18-wheelers...I think they have something against me...
What an eventful day
posted by Katie Coffman @ 12:29 AM
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I'm makin' a post!
Look at me go!
Kay so I got bored with writing an essay about Escoffier, so I started reading about Napoleon, then I got sidetracked to the Ottoman Empire (which makes me laugh 'cause it seemed the existed just to fall. Slowly. 300 years to peak, then another 400 to fall...like a really long slide...they did something right somewhere!) Never would have though I'd have to write a pop-essay in culinary school. Luckily our version of essays mean like, 2 pages max. Still, two full pages on croissants?! What. The fuck. Doesn't mean I dislike school at all though, it's still awesome.
Funny thought came into my head while I was reading about French people, Marie Antoinette said "If they cannot afford bread, let them eat cake!" which is pretty much exactly my case. I have so much cake...so little bread
Seriously...I have shittons of cake. Do you want some?
posted by Katie Coffman @ 12:21 AM
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Ours is a society in which we are increasingly seperating ourselves from each other
Technology, as in e-mail, voice mail, etc, make it a lot easier to be ignored. Seriously, think about it: we have so many ways to contact each other, at anytime of anyday, yet it's easier to only talk to those we want to and ignore all uncomfortable situations. Back in the day we had to go to someone's house to talk to them, and it's a lot more difficult to pretend you didn't get the message when they're talking to you. Now we can send hundreds of messages via e-mail, text, voice-mail, letters (haha just kidding, no one does that) and the recipient can just say they didn't get them. It's such an easy cop-out (though I don't think anyone ever believes that excuse). So much communication, so little information.
Fucking technology.
Turns out firemen don't need chefs. Back to plan-A I suppose.
posted by Katie Coffman @ 8:46 PM
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Most Terrifying Thing in the World:
To be living in a house with no working oven. Horrible I tell you. Luckily, I have many friends who wouldn't mind using their oven/kitchen. Still, I want my own. So photo shoot tonight went super-awesomely. (If I'm allowed to use that as a hyphonated word) I'm pretty sure everyone's pictures are going to come out wonderful. It was a lot of fun, the make-up artist (I think at least, probably because he put barely any make-up on, and make-up isn't my best friend in the world) did a great job, and his friedn was rather attractive. Always a plus.
I'm really excited to start making my pietes (pites? I'm still trying to figure out the best way to combine 'pie bites'). I think if I can get the price of each down to 20-25 cents, I can sell them for 50 cents and make a good profit. They're mini pies (mini tarts I guess) that are perfectly bite-sized. Great for if you just want a bite of different types of pies!
'Because sometimes, you just want a little pite!"
I just need a good business partner that can help me more with the business side, because I want to focus on getting the flavors and prices and healthy-ness to maximum efficiency. I think focusing on health/low calorie will be what I have to do in order to get the biggest client-base.
I'm so excited!
posted by Katie Coffman @ 11:50 PM
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