Expert Sandwich Maker On Demand

Dear all,

This will be a short blog entry, but I just wanted to let you all know that... I GOT A JOB!!! My friend Alex was recently hired at a new sandwich shop that just opened up two weeks ago, and when I told him I was looking for a job, he said that he would ask his manager for me. So, on Monday, she told him that she would like to meet me, and so on Tuesday I went to work with him, brought my resume and all expecting an interview, but instead got hired right on the spot:) About five minutes after meeting me, the manager (Marina) handed me a stack of fliers and said, "Okay, great, now go down the street and hand these out until 12:30 and then I'll teach you to make some sandwiches."

I was actually never taught to make a sandwich, just at one splendid moment between cutting bread and slicing tomatoes, Marina looked at the long line of people and looked at me and said "Go" and I made my very first Salmon and Avocado sandwich for a customer. I must say, it looked quite pretty when I was done:)

But, yes, that's my job now. I'm going to be working lunch hours Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays (11:30-3:30) at least until Megan (the grad student I'm working with) gets back from Tonga in the middle of October. After that, I'll have to cut it down to one or two days a week since I'll be working out on the boat with her. But, it feels so good to be employed! Yippee!

It is a bit ironic that my job is fixing other people food, since I have such a hard time just fixing some for myself:p On the other hand, we get to take all of the extra food home at the end of the day, so that means that I don't have to do as much cooking:) Best of both worlds, don't you think?

I am starting to get that whispering feeling that somewhere between the full schedule, the internship, the social life, and now the job, I may have undertaken just a tad too much. But, at the moment, everything is going splendidly, and I'm crossing my fingers that as long as I'm organized, I can keep all the balls flying without dropping anything along the way. Basically, I'm training for the circus:)

Yep, that's all for me. Hip hip hurray for employment!

<3 Tashi

PS. An extraneous bit of information. Today I finally gathered the courage to talk to my Marine Birds and Mammals professor, Dr. Rob Harcourt. Yes, it has been about 6 weeks, AND this is uncharacteristic of me because I strike up conversations left and right, AND I went to every single lecture... And still never gathered the nerve to actually talk to him. I've realized that I get very intimidated striking up a conversation with people who I think are really awesome, as silly as that is, and this guy is really awesome! What made it even more intimidating was that way back in March I sent him a good 3 page letter explaining how great I am and why he should take me on as an intern:p (which is how I ended up getting the position with the humpbacks, so it all worked out for the best), but I was too worried to actually introduce myself until today. However, that fear has now been vanquished. Except, I think I forgot to mention my name somewhere between all the words about seals, whales, and scalpels (we dissected fish today). Oops.