I didn't want to make a whole thread about this but I'm so excited I had to post somewhere. Tomorrow I go to the Community College where I'll get my Associates Degree in Culinary Arts. I'll be ordering my uniform and knives. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. It's been a HORRIBLE week so I'm happy that there is a positive thing going now.

Awesome! Well, congrats, and have a great time of it.
 

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I didn't want to make a whole thread about this but I'm so excited I had to post somewhere. Tomorrow I go to the Community College where I'll get my Associates Degree in Culinary Arts. I'll be ordering my uniform and knives. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. It's been a HORRIBLE week so I'm happy that there is a positive thing going now.

Here's a shout out to the class of 2010!! We made it! Woooooo!!

May the real world not tear us to shreds!

Don't know if I should be excited, but I am. :3

Gummy Bear - well done young one!  Follow your dream - how is it going?  How are the people you have met, i.e. other students, teachers etc?  Are they user friendly? :D  And how do you find the course to be, as in all theory/ no cooking dammit give me some food to play with, that sort of thing?

Good news from Down Under - just had my sister whom I've not seen for near 3 years come to visit.  We had a ball.  Makes me wish I was back home again, almost.   But by heck it was excellent.

Kimchi is too spicy for me! But a lot of Korean food tastes good and I can attest it's healthy 'cause they really cook vegetables half-cooked.

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Nice! I miss my parents and siblings, over there on the east coast USA in NJ and PA. I haven't been there in 4 years.I hope I can visit soon.

Yes it was good.  Everyone else lives in the "home" state, South Australia, whilst we've been Travelling Wilberrys :).

Maybe your folks/siblings could visit if possible.....my parents are planning a trip over here for a week in a couple of months.  Just heard last night. They are elderly so a bit limited, but we are so looking forward to it.  They are the only ones who have kept me together over the last, very stressful, 10 years.  They be great :D

Holding positive thoughts for you,  O Y

Yeti - good karma comes to those who wait.  It just seems like a heck of a long time, sometimes,  Reminds me kinda of a song by Guns 'N Roses, "Patience".

Fingers crossed for you , and I hope you get that goat

Cheering for ya Yeti!

"Blackbird" by the Beatles is in order for this awaiting occasion

Gypsy

Positive thoughts for you all.

Yeti - it will happen when the time is right.  If not this time, then your road may take you elsewhere on your journey.  Keep us informed, whatever the news is.  Support is what you need, and we are here for you.

Congrats Oregon! I have fingers and toes crossed for you!

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I start training on Monday!!

Whoo-hoo...yessiree...you betcha!!

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!

Hey that is great news

Cheers Yeti!     

So nice to hear Chefs are working!!!!!!!!!

Gypsy

Congratulations, Yeti!  How have your first couple of days been?

Yay Facebook!

You guys must think I'm crazy but I found the best friend request ever today for facebook!  It was to my yahoo account that I don't use anymore as it seems to attract more spam than anything else but I've kept it for yahoogroups and yahoo IM.   I do have a facebook profile attached to that address but I set it up for my husband so he could use it for testing fb apps at work.

Well.. a friend that I was very close to when we lived in TO found me using my yahoo account!!!  I am so excited it's not funny!  Her son is a year older than mine, and her daughter is a year older than mine.  We met at moms and tots when she was expecting her daughter and my son was just a toddler.  We became very close friends and our kids also became good friends. Then we moved here and circumstances (mostly a run of bad luck on her side.. they always had to struggle with everything) lead to us losing touch.  I have tried to contact her via the last email address I had for her with no luck and out of the blue there she was telling me she was on fb under her name and to add her as a friend.  So I added her using my page and OMG I wish she would hurry up and accept already! 

I can't wait to hear from her and catch up and finaly see her again!!  I have missed her so much and I'm so happy she found me again! 

So that completely made my day and I  just had to share!

leeniek That is so cool. I love it when those blasts from the past happen.

I agree, Paula, I love the blasts from the past as long as they bring back good memories!

I had a not so great one a few years ago when I was working at a workplace cafeteria.  I recognized one of the building employees as someone I went to high school with but I chose not to say hello to her.  We were not friends back then (she was a two faced b**** in high school) and I highly doubted anything had changed judging bythe way she behaved in the cafeteria so I kept my distance.  I didn't act like I recognized her (she had gained a significant amount of weight since high school but her face hadn't changed alot) and when I had to interact with her I kept it very professional and businesslike.

Leeniek - I agree.  I am so glad you got back in contact with your good friend - I've recently had similar things on FB from people I knew say 20 years ago.  But on the flip side, there was one I never wanted to hear from again.  Eh, it's a good tool and has, for me, more good sides than bad.  The bad one just brought back a lot of memories I'd rather not recall. 

The good ones though  they rock!

P.S. your unfriendly "friend" must obviously eat out at too many places and can't name any salad ingredients (except mayo).....your dealing with her as you did is the only way to go.

So glad its going well, Yeti.  Yeah I know a lot about metrology. People always think its meteorolgy and ask me what the weather is gonna be like tomorrow.  I do the standard laugh and enlighten them, politely.

I was not in your field, but any metrology must be precise and can go down to very VERY fine measurements.  Even climate control as in temperature, humidity, radiant heat from the walls, air flow etc can make a huge difference.  Even the heat of your hands where I was.  In my previous life, I ran a lab which tested and calibrated engineer's equipment.  Loads of eyestrain with the instruments used, and working to international, national and British standards.  "Meticulous" is the word to apply here - no room for error.

Young students often wonder "Why I am doing Maths (etc)- I'll never need it when I get a job". Ha! Somewhere, somehow, it comes along .  Then bites you if you didn't pay attention

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This job is better than I imagined.

 

Gypsy, I'm not a chef unless I can be a chef of the copper tubing and wiring and compressors and relays and...

 

As far as I'm concerned, I've got a job that an HVAC service tech dreams of (and I used to be one). This comes at a time when I was unemployed a lot and then was happy to get another job just to get by. My manufacturing experience with Hewlett Packard counts for a lot here, as do my college physics, chemistry and math classes. If you are familiar with metrology, you probably know Hart Scientific. That's who I'm working for, and it's now part of Fluke Corporation. I'm a service tech responsible for very precise heating and refrigeration systems. Yay

Well Congrats on your new position ! .... we are all chefs at heart ....no? 

A very good friend of mine is a Refridgeration Engineer .....I'm not sure if that is the same ...but according to him the jobs are scarce in that feild of expertise.

Well being back on the clock is always a good feeling.... the economy is supposed to be on an up swing. Maybe we all might be getting a little boost in our wallets!

Stay cool Yeti!............ I could not resist  

Gypsy