hate when u click w a person bc the urge to self sabotage is extremely strong. like wdym ive potentially met the coolest person i will ever date?? and every single time i find out we have sth in common its literally fate bc weāre so different but work!!
you wonāt get it unless you get it but nothing will never ever be hotter than a man like Tony Bourdainās massive intellect, intelligence, curiosity, social awareness, kindness, wit, and, his unawareness of these traits. Most of all, his eager shyness in unfamiliar places, always anxious to be polite & inoffensive
How to make a living will (Advance Healthcare Directive) so you donāt get fucked over by biological family if you end up in a situation where you cannot make your own healthcare choices.
also have a designated medical power of attorney. even worse than your shitty parents getting control of your estate is your shitty parents getting control of your still-living but incapacitated body.
no, having a chill adult sibling isn't enough, it still defaults to parents for some dumbass reason even if your parents are old as balls. if you want your chill adult sibling to be your emergency decisionmaker, get it in writing.
something genuinely insane about going somewhere and getting to feel āi had some of the worst years of my life hereā and āi was loved here, onceā simultaneously.
been working as a runner in an old location of a beloved busy chain restaurant and I gotta say⦠theyāre right, all of them. anybody you wanna listen to about the restaurant industry, itās true. Mostly. Maybe entirely.
At least for me, I think Iām working in some alternate hell not even Bourdain would slink into in the 70s. Think drinking, drugs, rock nā roll/rap or whatever the line is feeling that day. Broken, moldy equipment decades older than most of the young servers bemoaning its constant failures and safety hazards is a common fixture and problem to work around. But thereās some strange pride in it too. Think long nights after hours, washing dishes by hand in a prep sink because the dishwasher broke, again, and nobody can be in until morning. You, the dishwasher, and the two other bastards who stayed now all got something in commonā battle scars. Youāre really in the army now.
Further on Bourdain and restaurant work below
Bourdain says in Kitchen Confidential, the restaurant business is like joining the army, and you can have a well disciplined platoon or a rowdy, tough one. Or, underneath that, the pirates, criminals, and their kind, true badasses on the line and with the lawā of course no good restaurant cares about that. I ended up in the second crowd that veered dangerously close to the third. I did not mind this one bit, nor did it phase me. What did, was the state of hygiene everyone seemed comfortable with. Dear reader, if you enjoy going out to eat, and wish to live in ignorance, stop now! Read on if you dareā¦
Thatās the thing about an old building I guess. You get comfortable with a certain level of grime. Whatās shocking is the amount of business done. This is a small suburban area, thereās MANY other chain and local restaurants, yet, the masses flood our doors nearly every night, no matter the day or hour. The weekends are a guaranteed shitshow free for all. We, my fellow runners, cooks, servers, simply cannot understand it.
The masses crave slop I guess. And we shovel tons of it.
Iāve been wondering if i should put these on etsy- would anyone be interested?
(it looks like a photograph of grandpa with his new outrageously younger boyfriend at a family reunion) (itās printed on photo paper)