Is That Andy?

I started on serverside this week at Mad Anthonys. I’ve been really good about leaving work at work since I started as a cook, but it seems that now, work is getting stuck in my head. I don’t know why it’s happening, but for the past few nights, all my dreams are filled with waiting tables, scraping dishes, and not knowing how to ring in items.

For example, I worked tonight from 5:30 until about 9, came home, talked to Sarah for a bit. I went to bed around midnight, and woke up about 20 minutes ago [it’s 4:15.] However, I feel like I worked from 5:30 until 3:45am! It’s just like I never left.

I dream of the simplest things, too. Just waiting tables, talking to random people that have no certain meaning to a dream, scraping plates in the kitchen, getting condiments, getting slammed. I think of how I need to get a bank together before work at 4pm today. I think of how I need to find pens, because I only have two left. Then I start thinking about selling appetizers, and if I should say specific items or just ask if they want an appetizer. “Do you want a plate of nachos or some of our scotch eggs?”

I dream of posters they could make.  “Try a Blonde over Bleu: Gabby Blonde beer with a Black & Blue Mad Burger.”  It’s like I never leave work.

I wake up uncomfortable, tired, feeling as if I never slept, just worked 4 more hours. This is ridiculous.

Bah!