Day 7: Yeah... Barely Been Here A Week

Listening: I guess there's got to be a break in the monotony, but, Jesus, when it rains how it pours.
Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and you leave me. Yeah, you leave me.

What's my problem? Going through internet withdraw.

Just like on Lost I haplessly got marooned on an island. After being there for a good amount of time and weird stuff, I get off the island. Just when I think my life might return to normal, I have to willfully go back to the island.

So, here I am. Back on the island.

I'm back working on The People's Republic of Nantucket after an attempt to get back to working in America. I had every intention of staying at the job I started in January. I believed in the project, but found myself not being believed in and also not having respect for some of the workers. I was frustrated and disappointed. I dreaded waking up to go to work in the morning. I found myself wanting to stab my sous chef. I ran the image in my mind over and over, much like one of those delusions that Ally McBeal used to have.

When I arrived on the island, I was welcomed with warm hugs and high fives. It's really quite touching knowing that so many people are excited to work with me and see me again. The even better thing about the staff where I'm working is that there are only two new people in the kitchen (we have six people who are staples or repeat offenders), and there is only one new person in the front of the house (there are eleven staples/repeat offenders). All of them were psyched to see me. I can't even count the number of squealing "OH MY GOD"s I got over the past week.

Unlike the past couple of seasons, I'm not living in the staff housing above the restaurant. Instead, I am living on my own in the cottage behind the restaurant. I have to say that it's nice having my own space. Sometimes I wish I had someone living with me too, but I definitely don't miss sharing a room with another cook.

The downside to this is that there's no internet in the back cottage. The guys upstairs are stealing internet off of someone around the neighborhood, but due to the fact that the cottage is directly behind the walk-in refridgerator and at ground level, I don't get any wireless signal. They're thinking about getting internet upstairs, so I might be able to get a signal from them, but there's no guarantee.

Anyhow, I have to go back downstairs now. I have my first day off on Thursday. As it has been over the past couple of seasons, it's supposed to rain. To make it even better, the movie playing at the movie theater that night is going to be Sex In The City II. Yeah. Like I'll be going to see that. The good thing is that I'll probably just stay home or go to the coffee house. I plan on putting a rod in the closet of the cottage so I can hang my clothes. But other than that It's just reading and writing. It should be a good time. Maybe I'll make some use out of my Nantucket library card. They're almost as good as Netflix, and they're cheaper.

Anyhow, off to bed.