Study breaks during work...

I had to work last night at this new Mexican Cantina here in Rockwall. It's fresh, and it was Friday night.. ultimately meaning old people's date night- let's go out for dinner!! It really makes me wonder how people find it so amusing and thrilling to go out for dinner once a week, once a month, or even a few times a year. I can not wrap my sophomoric mind around this strange idea, dinner out only on special occasions? I spent the last three years of my life in the drive through window, it's a rarity that I eat in.

Even living at home with my parents, I still manage to eat fast food, or eat at restaurants at least 3 to 4 times a week. Though, ironically I've found that the food consumption in Denton, Texas certainly didn't affect my body as much as Rockwall, and those extra 7 pounds will testify my validity to that statement.

It's 4:30 Friday evening and I am at work. Luckily I brought my Kaplan Pocket GRE Study Guide with me. I have decided to take it with me every where I go, incase I manage a few lapse in my hectic schedule I can always pull out my Pocket Guide and review a few vocabulary words. So, I'm sitting there waiting for the new restaurant to figure out how it's going to run it's business tonight, it seems that we still haven't been able to work out all of the 'kinks' in the service and the managerial departments. I take a seat at an empty table to wait for my name to be put on the evening server list to take tables and begin to review vocabulary words.

I get a chance to go over about 20 words before I get sat. I take my table with a counterfeit smile and kiss ass the best I can for that tip. For those of you who do know me, I'm sure you will agree, and for those who don't, I will do my best not to stray too far from the truth on this, but I can be obstinate, I can be aggressive and insolent at times and I certainly am not one to be passive and take orders; ironically, I do enjoy serving tables. It's a chance for to be to become anyone I want to be. For instance at my last serving job in Denton, I once told a table that I was apart of the UNT Cheerleading squad and that I was a math major. It's easy to deceive people when all you are to them is someone who provides their corpulent bodies with "more rolls please!"

We got pretty busy last night, and aside from the Mariachi band in my ear the entire night, it was a relatively good night. Though I spent most of my night concentrating on refilling drinks and taking orders in my mind I kept going over those 20 words, 19 of which I forgot and at every chance I got, like when I was supposed to be putting in an order or checking on my table, I would quickly pull out my GRE Pocket Guide from my apron and research my word in the mini-dictionary.

All in all, I didn't get a chance to thoroughly study as much as I would have preferred, but that's okay. I have today and tomorrow to study.

Oh wait, I am about to leave for my 1030 to 430 shift at the restaurant. Then I have to attend my sisters Bachelorette party this evening at 8:00 pm. I will do nothing but study when I get home until 7 pm when I have to get dressed and leave. I will keep you posted. I'm already late for work as it is.