I'm working at Don Pablo's now ...it's too soon to tell if i like it there yet...

It's crazy working in a restaurant with a smoking section - definitely a first. It's hard to resist the nicotene allure. ALL my co-workers, bosses, cooks, bussers - shit, even the food smokes! (No, the shit doesn't smoke, that is what is called an "interjection" my friend) But i have resisited so far, and am pretty determined to stay smoke free... although come to think of it, it probably wouldn't make a difference cuz of all the 2nd hand i'm breathing in anyway...hmmm...( get behind me, satan!)

Anyway, my one boss, Angel, is the kind of manager that tries to get you to like him by pretending to be like "one of the guys", he's chummy, smack talks everybody, he's really sarcastic, always joking. I thought he was cool at first, but now he's starting to annoy me.

I happened to start like, 2 days before the Corporate inspection (wait to go, Anna), so last night i stayed until 11:30 pm (others stayed till 12:30 am) sweeping floors and cleaning Cholula bottles...for $2.13 and hour. I coulda left at, like 10pm, but, you've gotta understand this about being a server ( some of you know what i'm sayin), it's like being in the army - you're comrades, you don't bail when everyone's in deep shit together - you scratch my back, i scratch yours, we're all in it together...and that's a really cool thing. If i hadn't stayed, the walls probably would've heard "Hey, what's up w/ the new girl bailing? WTF?! little bitch, who the hell does she think she is?" it can get ugly. Anyway, i HAD to stay, even though i didn't have to stay, y'know? Then I had to get up at 6am to work at the school, i was dog tired.

There's like this Romanian sub-culture thing going on, too. About 4 servers, that i know of so far, are from Romania, which is pretty cool -they have neat names like Vlad, and Raluca. And they have those dark, intense facial features. But they'll talk to each other in Romanian, which sounds cool, kinda Russiany, but gets annoying cuz they do it alot, and God knows what they're talking about...that, and others speak Spanish alot...so, i'm kinda feeling a bit like a minority.

Today this one girl walked up to me and went "Yo-ho-ho!", I was like "OK??", then she left, and this other girl was like "I think she just called you a ho...haha, just kidding". Their weird. So, i dunno, we'll see how it goes.

I promise to write a happy, positive cheery post soon =) I know i've been kinda using this blog as a bit of a "Rant-oruim" lately, so i do apologize for that. I don't mean to be a downer, but it really does help to communicate frustrating stuff.

You guys rock.