last saturday of the month

ok so every last saturday of the month, theres a big meeting seminar type thing upstairs in sutao, then for lunch and dinner they all come down and eat. so i was working all day on saturday. literally from 11 till about 11. it was the most intense 11 hours ever. no joke. its like 70 people coming into my happy sanctuary and most of them dont speak much english. i felt like a loser for being the american.

people that were interesting:

some girl. she comes in all the time, shes not the prettiest girl in the world, but she has a beautiful voice. like normally to me chinese isnt the prettiest language but when she says it, it sounds awesome.

the americans. i realized that we divide people in our restaurant. the chinese and the americans. we didnt have a whole lot of americans come in, but at one point, when a group came in, they wanted to sit at a certain table, but terence told them to sit somewhere else, so they walked out. then susan said some chinese to him, and the next americans that walked in, we had them sit where the other people wanted to sit. it was funny. susans got them all whipped.

speaking of.

after the chinese people ate lunch, we had some time to chill. during this time lee and susan got in a HUGE FIGHT. and they were speaking angrily in chinese in a hushed voice, and then all of a sudden susan hit and broke the glass on the table! so the whole restaurant grows silent and they go into what i call the brothel room(aka the party room, but if someone closes the door, i feel like im interrupting something when i go in and get stuff.) so everyone in the restaurant and i just start talking. i was like, yeah i dont know what theyresaying but im a little scared. this led me to meet

unbelievabley fat man and his super friendly wife(maybe wife?) he was very fat. me and lee kept a plate count:11. we gave him his own pitcher of water. his wife and i were talking for a while. shes an english tutor.

lady with her family and kids. they didnt have a bunch of the stuff she wanted, so i asked lee to ask chef to make some new stuff, but he was arguing with susan, so i had to tell her that they were in a fight and i was scared. like she knew that they were fighting before so its ok. so she eventually got her stuff, and shes super nice.

chinese kids. they were like 8 and they were cute

stephen. susan/ terences son. he was annoyed that he had to dress up all day. we talk about wwII sometimes

two chinese nerds. i was talking to them for a while. i love nerds. we were talking about physics. i wish i could remember their names.

all in all it was a really busy day and it was snowing for a while, so i ust headed home after the day. suuuch a long day.

craziest friday of my life.

so ive been really busy so last weekends post will be along with this one, but im gunna write this now, cause to be honest i dont really remember any of the customers from friday night. the day was just too crazy.

there was a pep rally at school on friday, so naturally i didnt want to go. so i asked adam the night before to come get me, and he did(5 minutes late, if he was 5 minutes earlier i wouldnt have bought cosmo volume 248) so we were hanging out for a bit until i found his iron cuffs. he said i could play with them cause he had the key on his keychain. turns out he left the damn keys in philly. so we had to drive all the way to the 202 knife shop in hopes that he would have the key. before this, adam was just cursing himself out in the car. so driving on 202, i was thinking about banging on the windows and screaming help to whoever saw me, thaaaat woulda been awesome. and all the while, im just thinking about how fucking hilarious this situation was. like whats this poor man gunna think when he sees me walk in there with cuffs on?? so i decided to play it off exactly how it seemed. it turned out that the knife shop didnt open for about an hour after we got there. so i was stuck in cuffs for about 3 hours on friday. so when it opens, adam decides to smoke a ciggarette before we go in, in the freezing cold. so we go in, and i meet len. i walk up to the counter and put my hands on the table. hes all like "well what have yoooou guys been doing" and im like "this dumbass left his keys in philly. " so len finds that he doesnt have the keys and a new shipment will be in next week, but we are told to go over to the barber next door who happens to be a retired cop i think. so we go in, and who is it but none other than mr.birkmire, my old drivers ed instructor from the summer. so they get me out and they and adam start talking about cuff brands and i found out that its actually illegal to carry cuff keys. sorta weird right? cuffs are legal to carry, but keys arent? who came up with that one? so after that we go back over to the knife shop and talk to len for a little bit. i bought a spring loaded knife of awesomeness. it has a thing on it so if i get stuck in my car in an accident i can break the windows open, and it has something on it to cut the seatbelt. and its pink. best 39 dollars spent evar. after we went to the knifestore, we went to the mall and ran into tori chris and brian. it was awesome! i love them so much, adam bought me chinese food(cause he feld bad for getting me stuck in cuffs) and we talked about awesomeness. i cant remember much of the convo, all i know is i love my guys. aaaanyway i recently found out that butterfly knives are legal in PA, so im TOOOTALLY buying one the next time head down to the knife shop. woooot. i remember going into work and lee asking about the bruises on my wrist and trying to tell him the story. he thought it was funny but i bet he thought something else haha. it was great. after work i went to tori's to see my fam. it was all my ladies i love and all my boys i be diggin. i shared the chinese food they made me take from work (not complaining) i met two new kids, sean and mike (im pretty sure) one of um had boondock saints tattoos (truth and justice in latin on his left and right pointers) but he had a beard so i was like eeehhh. if he got rid of um i woulda been down. the other guy was like blond and talkin about bad brains so i was like DAAAAYUM GIMMEEE. so i think im gunna see about that guy. like daaaaayum. i was bein a bitch tough cause i just got off work, so hopefully i didnt piss anyone off too much. me tori and arbye always bash on people we dont like, and we were talking about a particular girl who happens to like buttsex. and we were talking about how loose her ass must be and we came up with this hand sign:

and we always end up talking about arbye's ex who has a mustache and we talk about mustache's alot. just cause theyre fun to make fun of. were not really into hair, us three. all of our hair is like shorter than our shoulders. im thinkin of growing mine out though...

sooo in short. got stuck in cuffs. got a knife. saw my besties. went to work. saw my besties again. i love them. she's a little loose.

rather peeved at patty.

ok so i totally passed out after work and didnt get a chance to write this, and i had saturday and sunday too, so im just guna put the people i remember together in a big list after i go on about my day sunday.

so saturday work was super busy. i was really happy though cause some of my best friends came and ate. marina left an 8 dollar tip because i love her! and max and maddie came it, and their relationship still secretly weirds me out a little cause they look like they could be brother and sister. after work i went and saw brian miller for a little and he carried me to my car. it was sort of cool.

sunday me and adam hung out all day. viva la fort =D. i got changed infront of him (like not in an awkward way, just getting into my work clothes, i didnt take my shirt off and its like, not a big deal. id do it in front of anyone) and my mom flipped out, so i went to work and when i got home she took a bunch of pictures off of my walls. i was pissed cause she totes mcgotes got in my grill and i cant get behind that. so go up to her and im like yo bitch what the fuck, and she tried to say that they were dusty. then she started going on about how my art is ugly after i told her that it was bullshit that they were dusty.

so it gets to her calling me a slut for some stuff that happened in the summer that i couldnt control. and i told her that if she doesn't get out of my room i'm probably going to punch her in the face. she said it was her house, so i was like ok, then im getting out of your fucking house. and i left. i told her to go fuck herself and i booked it out of there. i didn't know if she was going to follow me, so i ran to morgan's neighborhood and called some people. my friend dan hayward saved me from the cold and rain. we went to his house, i took a shower and we watched futurama, he was sick so he took me home at like 130 or 2.

i got home and no one was awake. so i was like ok cool this is how i wanted it.

i then remembered i had a fucking physics lab to make up at 645 in the morning the next day, so i left like 29 postits to my dad saying to wake me up.

he did, so i was like sweet. but he was sayin all kinds of stuff in the car, and i was like. your wife called me a fucking slut, and he was like " i thought you were pissed at adam, i personally lost all respect for him when he broke your heart 2 months ago. but youre hanging with him like nothing happened and i dont know how good that is for you" idk it was just a really confusing conversation because i feel like he agrees with her that im a slut, and that hurts. cause hes always the one sticking up for me. me and adam really arent doing anything.

soooo basically im a slut.

yeaaaah

today was a slow day but it was good none the less.

when i got in lee taught me how to peel broccoli HIS way. which is very particular, and he's left handed so it was like i had to switch everything. i sculpted a face into one. whoever eats the fried broccoli from that ones gunna be eating art haha

it also freaked me out because the barely lingual guy in the back whom exchanges funky noises with me called lee a "bad boy" today and i was like uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok? that guy actually makes me feel uncomfortable though... oh well, he has a friendly face so i chill.

me and susan were talking for a while about my aspirations and what she thinks about owning a restaurant. we talked about tattoos for a LONG time

people of sutao:

returning girl who calls me drummer girl. shes super sweet. she asked for ice in her wine glass. who does that! haha

second black couple ever seen at the 'tao. super nice, the guy asked for agave nectar cause they were on a 21 day fast from bread sugar and some other stuff. he was also an artist and his wife was a salon lady.

OMG FINNIEST HAIR EVER! he was buzzed except for a single circle of hair on the top on his head. a like inch diameter circle. i died of laughter. me and lee were trying not to laugh like crazy.

little girl and her daddy. reminded me of me and my dad, except me and my dad are way cooler.

lone soldier in the creeper station. theres a part of sutao that we put people when its REALLY busy, but he wanted to go there by choice, its like a nice little patio like set up. i call it the creeper station. he was there for 2 hours waiting for his yoga class haha.

hardcore guy with not so hardcore girl. this guy reminded me of hardcore dan(hxc dan is a guy in a comic book based off of a real guy who is the guy who writes it's roommate. check out josh frees' stuff.) well this hardcore guy had a phillies cap on and a super badass sleeve, but it was terribly faded. punx gotta learn how to use sunscreen. not so hardcore girl was cute.

scary woman who was pretty to look at but terrifying to talk to. she had a 4 month old baby natural (like one of the births at home) birth child. she said it hurt alot without drugs. i was like daaaayum badass. but she was scary so i backed off.

double birthday party in the back room. im so pissed i forgot to add a person to the list! we let someone eat for free. because im an idiot! haha oh well, they were nice people anyway. like im pissed about it, but everyone makes mistakes i guess. i was peeved cause i spilled some water too. christ...

gunna work tomorrow even though i had bangin plans. 530 till close, then ill see what i can do, but ima try and see adam tomorrow. well, technically today i guess haha

eeep

ok so i actually had a long weekend and i didnt get the chance to post the haps. but it goes like this, i got a hamster last saturday and hes a white russian hamster, therefore i named him lebowski. if you havent seen the movie "the big lebowski" then go see in now because its a classic and is probably one of the best movies of all time. you see, the dudes favourite drink is a white russian(obvious) so i named my hamster lebowski cause he is a white russian. im gunna get him a little rug to tie his cage together.

on sunday my zombie photo shoot didnt work out so well cause it was fuckin raining. but amanda, morgan, hannah, carly, and adam came over. adam had to leave for a little bit cause he was gunna go to his sister's recital, but she got sick so he came back. during the time that he was gone, it was just me and amanda cause people had stuff to do. she proceeded to tell me that her bf, who happens to be my ex, was telling her not to hang with me because apparently im still pill popping. which i am not. i knew that he didnt want her hanging with me because he cheated on her with yours truely before i met her, so he didnt want me to tell her. well he pissed me off telling her im still a drug addict, so i told her on monday that he cheated on her. she punched a wall and broke her hand.

me and adam have been talking again(hes some ex that i fell in love with but then he cheated on me). and ive actually been getting along with melissa(the girl he left me for), but i know for a fact that its terrible for my psyche to be talking to them. i just do it anyway because im a masochist. but actually i feel like under different circumstances me and melissa would be great friends. she went through alot of stuff that i have, so i sort of relate to her. adams been listening to me rant because apparently he missed hearing me talk about nonsense. but i sort of need that. someone putting up with my booshit.

on mlk day it was my sisters 2 year anniversary of her car accident. shes getting better, but its still rough. that brought up some emotions, but i was talking to melissa for a while about it so i guess that made me feel better. i still have nightmares.

at brian miller's after work

im sniping internet at brians house after an awesome day at work. brian is cute in theory we all decided. he doesnt know though.

people of sutao:

CUTEST GIRL IN THE WORLD!!!! lee asked me to ask how old she was, and she was 5 "and a half" and she was the cutest girl in the world!!! she was talking about how her dad beat level 10 in a zelda game today, and she literally asked "what are ethics?' to her dad mid convo. i want her as my own. if i ever have a kid, i want her to be like this girl. her name was ava.
british girl. she was british and lee said she was a regular. she came in with family, and the one guy lee said orders the same thing everytime he comes, sweet and spicy chicken with a bottle of cola. they stayed forever but thats ok cause she was talking cool.
the blackest people i have ever seen in sutao ever. they werent very loud and i was liek CMON I WANT MY STEREOTYPICAL BLACK LADY SPEAK! but i didnt recieve
gamers! they were talking about apple and microstoft and all kinds of nerdy stuff and i was soooo sad when they left
mistmatching floral patterns and her husband whos hands shook. im normally into mismatching, but this was a little much, but her husband was cool. shakey but cool.
dm, nick, jesse. first timers, dm is a buddy of min, nick was my elementary bff, and jesse is in my neighborhood. cool kids small tip though. im burning osker for dm.

there were others but its getting late and i gotta bounce. sort of a slow night but brian is saying im bad a choosing guys which is true. ill get into the zombie shoot when i get home. ttfn.

40/60

so today we split tips 60/40 and i got the 40% but thats ok because i still got a bunch of cash anyway. but im like aweee if i got all the money from the tables i was taking care of, woulda brought home like 200 bucks. its all god though. today was fun except for a demon couple that i didnt like.

susan told me all of the customers love me and im like SWEEEET because i love it when people love me. plus the more someone likes the waitress, the more tip money they get.

people of sutao:

colonel sanders man and his wife. he was sporting the coolest mustache i have ever seen in person.

the man that has made me the most angry out of everyone except that one lady who bitched me out on my first day. this man didnt even do anything. he didnt say thank you. and asides from that he put his plates near the wall, he sniped two pots of tea instead of reusing the old one, and again, HE NEVER SAID THANK YOU!!! that guy got me so mad. lee totally could tell that i was getting pissed, and he was super nice and made me a cup of tea. i proceeded to drink about 4 more cups tonight. (i totally just realized that i might have said "tea is my shit" to a customer today haha oooops)

there were two women that were sutao first timers, and i was happy to tell them whats the goods. they were so nice.

then a lady asked me if i was vegan and i was like yup, and she was like "i could tell, all vegans are skinny, i dont know a single fat vegan" and i was like i know a couple fat vegans, and she was like "then they probably arent honest." and that gave me a chuckle. she was a cutie.

then there was a couple drinkng wine and the wife was like all smiley, and she had big eyebrows, and she was nice.

lone soldier. looked sort of scary. maybe theres a reason hes alone, but he was nice anyway i guess, didnt talk to him much.

one of the guys in back made a funny noise today, so i went and made a funny noise back. it was our cool moment of the day. the cute dishwasher seems to not be having a good couple days.

either she was just acting nice in the beginning or im definitely terrified of her.

group of 3 ate for 5. they stayed for like 2 hours. me and lee thought it was rediculous.

lee throws dish towels that we use to clean the tables with at me, its funny as hell.

today he asked me what "time to die" means. i drew a tombstone, a coffin, and a clock, it was intense. he showed me a picture of a stuper expensive dog that he was swooning over. i was talking about sebastian for a while, and he was like, yeeeah i speak mandarin yaaay. and i was like yeeeah i speak english aiiight.

the people in the party room were nice, i served them soy icecream and totally remembered their whole order. i was like SKIIIIILLLLZZZZ.

i really gotta find out where they got those icecream glasses. i love those things.

pumped

so sunday im having a buncha kids over for a zombie photo shoot! im pumped cause i mean its fun as shit to act like zombies and take pictures of it. its at like 12noon till like 430, cause i got work at 530. buuuut that means that everyone should go eat at sutao at 530! dont get crunk at my crib though... my parents are there so be civil besides the acting like a zombie thing. though i love to stg, its not the place for it at my crib jaunt.

aside from me and brian murray being in a fight, everything is pie! this weekend is gunna be awesome whether its martin luther king jr day or not. (my sisters accident was on mlk day) im tryin to keep everything posi duude. gunna make spice cake cause of the tradition.

im pumped cause i started talking to luke sexy luke. hopefully ill get on that. so that was fly.

question: do midgets have smaller stomachs than normal people?

gettin the hang of things.

work was pretty good today. didn't suck nearly as much as on friday.

i met terence. he's susan's husband. we talked about the work thats put into owning a restaurant and maintaining it. he's super awesome. mentor much?

then i asked what the dish washer lady's name is. its something like chn or jn, but i dont know... it was a challenge.

then i asked what that one guy's name was. im not sure what he does, lee wrote his name on a piece of paper. he wrote the letters C-U-T. i was like, uhhhh cut? emo? and he said the c was like a ts, im still confused. then theres another guy that looks more hawaiian than chinese, but hes jolly, so i like him. i like all of them actually.

lee gets on my nerves only when i do something wrong. thats ok though because it makes me learn faster, and all in all hes way cool.

there were some cool people eating at sutao on sunday (sutao sunday represent!)

there were twogroups of five that came in.

group one. round 6 oclock, stayed for a whiiiiile, talked about harold and kumar to whitecastle. definitely stoners. i was ok wit that though. and the one girl had really awesome dreadlocks. the one guy looked like someone i know.

group two. round 8 oclock. a couple guys, they were cute guys. a girl or two but i dont remember. one of um had a really cool scarf.

blonde girl and guy who looked like a hockey fan(woooh hockey!). the girl looked ditzy and like a bitch, but they tipped well. it must have been the hockey fan paying.

two couples sitting together. two menus two buffets, one woman brought her own tea. i felt like they didnt like me. =[

a chinese couple. they were there the whole night. literally the whoooole night. three or four pots of tea, no bathroom trips. i felt lik there was a conspiracy going on.

cute guy with his dad. had a radiohead shirt on. had hairy arms but in the sexy way not the EWWWW way.

that was it for tonight but i got a shit ton of money in tips. maybe im cute?

lee was showing me where everything was some more. it was cool. theres some tea that im lookin to snipe, i dont know what it is but it smells sooooooo good! im sure terrence and susan wont mind if i have a cup while im chillin.

while we were all cleaning up, they basically pushed taking home like sooo much of the left overs, it was ridiculous. but i mean free chinese food? im alrght with that.

on a side note my dad let me drive his car tonight for the first time since i totaled my moms car. i was driving just fine.

on another side note i cant get a cheating bastard out of my head. long story. but im still really upset about it and i cant believe that i would take him back if he wanted me, but i would, which is stupid.

ces't la vie...

fun with amanda

right now amanda is hangin with me before i go to work at 530. we were taking pics with photobooth on my super fancy imac. theyre funny as hell. my mom jumped in on them too. we went to paris, and to the beach, and to the moon! it was craaazy fun. then we went swimming with fishes! now were gunna go make boston cream cupcakes with the book "vegan cupcakes take over the world!" it the best 15 dollars youll ever spend or keep. sooo good. ill post about work when i get home... woot woot

the start!

sooo this is the start of my bloggggg. I sort of feel weird starting a blog because i don't think anyone will read it, but people keep telling me i'm a good writer, and maybe this will help me improve some more. so i'm gunna get right into and talk about whats going on in my life and such. so this is a loooong post just to fill everyone in, im sorry its so damn long!

in case you haven't met me or something, i am passionate about almost everything that i do. its sort of my thing. ive been obsessed with photography since i was about five or six and iv'e been obsessed with cooking since i was three. i just recently got into sculpture(clays my fave) and studio arts(mostly charcoal and acrylics). i started living a vegetarian lifestyle about four years ago, and then i made the switch to veganism in march of 2008. i still love cooking, i just like making things animal free.

which leads me into my job. i just started working as a waitress at SuTao. it's a vegan chinese buffet. and you would think itd be a calm place most of the time (which whenever i used to go to eat there, it was), but when you work there, its like 200 things to do at once and its like rush hour. im sure ill love it once i get the hang of it, but yesterday was horrible.
on my first day, lee(who barely speaks english, hopefully ill pick up chinese) put all of the job responsibilities on me at once, so this had me running around like a chicken with its head cut off. this is what im supposed to do in its entirety once im done "training"(aka tomorrow lee is leaving early so ill be there waitressing there all by myself):
once somebody enters i am supposed to say
"hello how are you?"
(wait for answer)
"thats excellent/ sucks, how many?"
(wait for answer)
then im supposed to seat them, and ask them if they want a menu, if yes i get one, if no, i fill their water(which is harder than it looks because there are a couple pitchers that you have to pour sideways and it honestly ruins my day because sometimes theres too much ice and ill spill it everywhere. awkward) then if theyre eating a buffet i am supposed to take their plates (when they finish one plate they're supposed to get another. btw, if you're one of those assholes who puts their plate on the side of the table closest to the wall, please imagine me burning a hole in your scull with my lasers) back to the kitchen so that one lady whose name i don't know yet can clean them. but before that i'm supposed to smack the food thats been left on the plate into the trash can. (those who aren't members of the clean plate club need to man up, its good food. recognize that and eat it all) and theres a specific order for where the dirty dishes go. utensils go in the tub on the floor, cups in the tub next to it, plates in the bin on the counter, glasses in a funny carton thing. then i have to be sure everyone has atleast half of their water. and i will have to take orders from people not doing the buffet, but i havent done that yet. after theyre done, ill have to print out the bill and give it to them. i have yet to figure out the cash register.

i learned this only after my shift yesterday, but im not supposed to clean while the people are still there. a lady yelled at me. it was scary. ill talk more about this devil woman in a minute.

back to what i was saying...
when i have to clean up, i have to carry four glasses at once in each hand, and if you dont drink most of your water that i have to pour you, i have to stick my hands in your icky water. its cold because lee puts alot of ice in the pitchers. this is something i will change once lee gets off my back and lets me do my job the way its supposed to be done. after taking the rest of the dishes back, i have to get the placemat things and throw them out then wipe the table. lee got mad at me for having the wrong technique with wiping the damn table. up and down, not left to right. wax on wax off. for christ's sake! then i have to reset the table for the next people coming in.
along with this, once the dishes are clean, i have to put them back on the buffet counter. with my poor weak arms and clumsy body, im nervous as hell about it.

so those are all of the responsibilities basically.

now on to the people of sutao.
my coworkers, and the customers.
susan. she is one of the owners of sutao and she speaks the most english of the place. mah boss
lee. hes the main waitor there and he trained me yesterday. barely speaks english. he said the word "bowl" literally 200 times before i got it.
the dish washer/ one of the preps. shes about a foot shorter than me and shes about 20 years older, but i think shes cute.
thats the only people i know so far. lee was getting on my nerves at the end of the night, but thats ok.
the customers:
-my firstees. two girls, i thought they were jerks initially, but then one left me a note saying good luck, which i thought was sweet, so now i look back and think theyre adorable.
-then there were two people who i thought looked familiar, and i could tell they were first timers at sutao cause i got the "is this legit everything vegan?" and i said "yeah but i think theres honey in the granola on the dessert table" so they said that made their day. and they asked for vanilla soy icecream, so i was like yeeeah. they got super cute icecream glasses that i need to buy for my future apartment. they were my number one favourite customers of that night. i wish more people were awesome like them.
- the lone soldier. he came in all by himself and i thought he was with the party in the back. i felt mean, like "you all by youself at sutao. loser" when i had no problem with him. he was friendly.
-the super cute tattooed girls. nuff said. two girls came in, they were super cute. and covered in beautiful ink.
-the party people. a whole family of vegetarians, and it was the brother in law of the guy i talked to's birthday. 12 people, bunch of kids. they spilled lomein alll over the floor
-old enough to be married but not couple. they drank wine (found out we serve it) and talked about god knows, sat next to eachother instead of across. weird?
-couple with a kid # 1. really cute kid didnt start to cry, they asked for a knife.
-couple with a kid #2. the guy had a beard, the kid started crying, and when i suggested the peach pie he said in a jack black voice "im not really a fan of the peach pie"... what a douche. bashin on the best pie in the world...
- large teen couple. the large boy was wearing a kilt that went down to his ankles. i didnt notice the girl except for her hair because i was distracted by the kilt. i mean A KILT! it was awesome but awkward.
- super nice man but really mean lady couple. i wade the mistake of trying to fill the womans glass of water too often, she got mad. i made the mistake of cleaning the table before the left, she got mad. i fear this woman.
-two old ladies. i liked them but i didnt say much. they were in conversation
-chinese business men eating their dinner and such. i liked them but i didnt like that the tea thing was so weird. lee like tied it on to the mug. or they did...
- second lone soldier. looked like someone i know, conversed a little. i liked him.
- 3 women speaking chinese. susan talked to them for a while and placed their orders. i liked them. and the girl spoke english. she was sweet.

so this was the end of my first blog basically! wasnt that exciting!? i promise it wont be this lame next time!