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[Xorkoth]

First day back in on the saddle in the culinary industry tomorrow. It pays way less than Im qualified for but I get a promised 9-5 5 days a week which is nice.
I hope food doesn't make me self destruct like it has in the past. I'd rather be a pastry chef(my specialty) than a line cook but oh well. At least I don't have to worry about where my meal is coming from.

Nice, it's good to have work to occupy your time with, congrats. And maybe you can move up to pastry chef?

 

[Thanatos]

I was literally one week away from being homeless so I took the first decent job I could find. It's a Red Robin if you know what that is.
So no pastry chef, or time to put my fine dinning training to work.

 

[amanitadine]

Red Robin is vastly better than homeless me thinks....unless you really go homeless hobo freight riding style....can't be beat. And yes, speaking from experience! Riding the rails is alive and well....or at least it was 17 years ago. Great way to explore the USA as a young man...

@ NKB - I fold. I can't compete, although I laud such and am duly impressed. Next time I'll give it a shot....I always have plugged my cremated human remains, but maybe oral has some benefits....props!

Oh, and "drag your ass overseas"? Why on earth drag? Run man, run! I spent as much time overseas as I could for years...luckily my former profession allowed for spending the bulk of the year traveling. Wonderful experiences...every country and culture has it's merits...

And ooh yes, the Sagrada Familia.....amazing. Been there and got the T shirt when I was living in mainland Europe.....Barcelona alone is fucking extraordinary....such a fantastic youth culture and energy, punk as fuck, art explosions, and squats galore...everyone should go to Spain. Hemingway drew me there at age 18, as well as my first visit to Paris....been back a few times since. One of the best cities around for a multitude of reasons....

@Rog- me and the better half spent a night on Mescaline on the Ganges river in Varanasi, India with a family as they cremated their grandfather...the visual of a body burning is something else, mescaline aside!

Swillow- those building remind me of Bucharest or Kiev. Ewwwww....

 

[Xorkoth]

Red Robin is delicious, I hope you get free food while you're working.

 

[Thanatos]

I think its half off on food. But I'd rather work hard than take a break and get stuck in the weeds.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

i've got a job interview on friday

Act like the person they want you to be. がんばれ!

At least I don't have to worry about where my meal is coming from.

Best part of working in a restaurant. I'm guaranteed two decent meals a week (and worth more than the value-menu fare I stick to when I take myself out these days). The lack of pre-employment testing is wonderful as well.

Great way to explore the USA as a young man

But don't you get all dirty and smelly?

Why on earth drag? Run man, run!

I could get into Mexico illegally, and if I saved up my money I could do the same to get into Canada. The first option is undesirable (Spend all my money to go to some shithole border town? Puh-lease.), and why the heck would I go north of this state when I could go to San Francisco, and visit my friends now living in the Bay Area? My most recent out-of-state travels were to Denver and Vegas in '13, BTW.

.Barcelona alone is fucking extraordinary

It sounds like it is, definitely one the places I'd most wanna visit in Europe. Oh, and maybe Paris/Marseille, somewhere in Norway, somewhere in Tuscany, Budapest, Warsaw....actually I'm fine with watching it on TV for the most part. So much America out there to see, so little time.

I always have plugged my human remains

Now I'm just thinking of fecal transplants.

 

[Thanatos]

NKB are you a foodie?

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

^I was an aspiring foodie once, now I eat to live.

 

[Thanatos]

Nice! How did you afford it? I'm a foodie myself. I've been working food since I was 14 and was a pastry chef for a French restraurant until October.

 

[amanitadine]

NKB-

Dirty and smelly is an understatement. But it's part of the myth and the reality, and treading that line is what I do best I wore that filth like a badge of honor...was role playing at first, but then I became it. Was a little hard to get out of that lifestyle, but soon got on a fishing boat to AK and made money, and on to the next...good times.

Why Mex/Canada illegally? Are you a felon too? My travel restrictions lift soon....they would have lifted a few years ago but I got impatient and went to India and Nepal for a year, giving me 3 more years on the leash....it was worth it.

And fuck border towns, go south.....Oaxaca, Chiapas, etc....lovely places.

And why go at all? Out of country will broaden your horizons more than anything. Indescribable. I would try but it is bedtime way over here, being a "farmer" now and all. (still kinda role playing such but i am slowly becoming the part)

You would love Europe, this much I know.

Edit- big time foodie here, much as I detest the term...

 

[Roger&Me]

i would say i'm somewhat of a foodie. i don't go hardcore hipster with it though. most of the time i eat fairly simply (e.g. rotisserie chicken & salmon for protein sources, and an assortment of vegetables.. lots of greens, kale, swiss chard, etc. lots of olive oil. i try to avoid wheat and starches as much as possible). for the last couple weeks i've been eating too much pizza though

i like food but if i wanted to eat foodie hardcore at every meal i would either waste all my time cooking or spend a fortune on prepared food. and simple fare can be awesome if you buy nice fresh ingredients.

but yeah i'm not a fan of the term "foodie" either, but for lack of better terminology it gets the point across.

 

[Thanatos]

Roger if we ever meet up I'll take you out to my 4 star French steakhouse I used to work at as Garde Mangre and Pastry chef. I'm friends with all the chefs and get 50% off.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

How did you afford it?

It was a long time ago, I was like, socially functional or something.

Why Mex/Canada illegally?

I imagine passports are a hassle. In any case, I'm loath to travel on my own dime 'cause I'm impoverished, with currently unmet financial obligations waiting to eat up any increase in my income.

Are you a felon too?

No. I am a law abiding citizen, notwithstanding my parking tickets.

 

[swilow]

I want to visit Australia one day. You Aussies know hows the visa system nowadays, how long can I stay there if I dont work? Or do I need to get a job to stay there more than a month or two? I could ask my friend tho as he's been living there for a year or something. He's somewhere in Victoria, near Melbourne. Quite an adventure for just a little over 20 year old guy from little city from Finland to just leave everything and start a new life in the other side of the world. He found a girlfriend there too and they're coming to visit Finland this summer, im excited to see one of my best friends.

I have no idea to be honest. Australia is a weird sort of country regarding immigration; there is an extant undercurrent of xenophobia, largely related to our right wing conservative government and the issue of immigration ('illegal'). In truth, I have no idea about visa conditions; my close friend, who is Puerto Rican, has been living here for 5 years but he is shacked up with an aussie lass and is working. I feel like you would have at least 6 months, but I could be wrong.

You should come here, its different to what many people think, at least on the east coast. Some great beauty and a great psychedelic scene here

 

[Folley]

the only thing that dissuades me from Australia is the price of drugs.. it'd be a nice vacation spot, but I've always been looking for a home.

 

[xammy]

You should come here, its different to what many people think, at least on the east coast. Some great beauty and a great psychedelic scene here

Yeah my friend told me that there are many great events all the time :D

the only thing that dissuades me from Australia is the price of drugs..

Everything seems to be pretty expensive in Australia, even when looking the prices from Finland.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

There are days when ivy leaves appear to me as emeralds. I am tempted to use that to start a train of thought, but I'll just leave it to its suchness.

I wore that filth like a badge of honor...was role playing at first, but then I became it. Was a little hard to get out of that lifestyle, but soon got on a fishing boat to AK and made money, and on to the next...good times.

Sounds pretty Beat. I'm curious, was it more interesting as it happened, or in retrospect?

the only thing that dissuades me from Australia is the price of drugs.

Don't forget the spiders.




We need music, this song's been in my head, I'll post a particular cover for love of roger.

 

[SONN]

Im passionately in love with and addicted to cajun food made by this really good place in my hometown where the chef served for 7 years under Emeril the celeb chef.

Their softshell crab Po'boy is my favorite thing i've had there but they also have amazing stuff like "Crispy Cajun Mac & Cheese w/Chicken, Applewood-Smoked Bacon, & Bleu Cheese."

eating good foods changed my life in such profound ways and I'm dead serious when I say that, I was incredibly picky as a kid and almost always just ate for sustenance when I had to or binged on candy but when I started smoking weed and enjoying the act of eating food more it legitimately made my quality of life so much better

 

[amanitadine]

Sounds pretty Beat. I'm curious, was it more interesting as it happened, or in retrospect?

Very beat, and Beat. Heavily influenced by the Beats as a youngster, and even moreso by "You Can't Win", by Jack Black (no not the bag of contemporary hot air, the proto-beat hobohemian of the early 20th century...a must read for all) and so lept in....I had done a few cross country hitchhiking trips on zero dollars, so an extended stay wasn't too far of a leap. It was incredible at the time, and probably a little rose tinted in retrospect, but undoubtedly still amazing. You throw yourself into the wind with nothing, and you want for naught. My intro to living the Snyder/Kerouac boddhisatva way...

The hobo culture was alive and well, and still is. People really do cook beans over fires in the southwest and swap tales of railroad bulls and yards to avoid. Great way to see the country. If you are young and exude a trustworthy air, people even take you in, feed you, give you work....

I had also recently kicked dope for the first time, so I was especially zealous, and liberated. And I took it all in, had my backpack, would do some labor ready shit when needed, hit up food banks, dumpster dive, shoplift as a last resort. My ideals were very strong then, however misguided, and my stamina great. See the rose tint?

Seeing the country from a speeding boxcar and sleeping out under the stars can't be beat. You want for nothing, and have only the moment to be concerned with. 90's zen in full effect....the Clinton years were full of excess, so there were plenty of droppings from the table to feed on.

I can honestly say that period was probably the happiest in my life.

Other trips I went with more resources, and some even with automobiles and flush, but the poverty of freedom of the aforementioned really highlight as the best.

Passports are not a hassle at all. Quite simple really. Get the gumption some day. And if your unmet financial obligations are student loans, well, I never paid mine. Well, not exactly true...after I found the way to convert lead to gold (um, not alchemy but chemistry, and that is an analogy) I paid them off. And went back. And dropped out. And went back. And dropped out. And never paid those off... So far so good. And it's been a long time. I also never paid my taxes during the Bush administration, but the vast majority of my income was unreported. I owe them a bit, they send threatening letters every now and then, but I move around the country constantly so who knows...I have sent a few threatening nonsensical letters back, just taking the piss for my own amusement...

 

[Thanatos]

Holy shit. My first day at my new job and I rocked it. I can't believe I did so good since I'm on the brink of having a seizure. I'm benzo dependent and haven't had one since Saturday.