Tooooo looooong

I have been in the catering business for too long. I enjoy it, which is probably why its been a side job for me for 10 years (!!), and there's something to be said about being good at your job. But lately I've realized I have acquired skills that nobody should have. Nobody.

At a recent event I was passing wine to people entering a party. One of the guests complimented me on how well I handled the tray. Um, what?

At another event I was carrying a huge armload of stuff to the van at the end of the night, so I couldn't see my feet, and I was going down the stairs. I fell down the stairs. It hurt. But, as I landed on my ass, I somehow did it without spilling a single thing from my armload, nay, without any of it even moving. When did I get conditioned to think that not dropping stuff is more important than not falling down?

I was working a wedding, and the toast was going to start soon so I was carrying a tray of champagne glasses. As I walked by my boss, she burnt her hand and so I was all "oh my god! are you ok?" and rushing toward her and wandering around finding her some ice and picking up the item she threw when she burnt herself, and basically being involved in a flurry of activity and then I realized I was still carrying the tray of champagne. And hadn't spilled a drop. I waitress so freakin much that holding a tray of glasses feels like a natural extention of my body.

Uhhh, yeah, I need to stop doing this. Before I morph into some crazy waitressing robot and I serve people in my sleep and duck into restaurants and clear tables for them and will only eat food that's been getting cold on the buffet line for two hours and don't feel like my night is complete unless my hands are wrinkly from doing so many dishes in some rich lady's enormous, marble sink that you know only gets used when we cater at her house and...

...where was I?

Oh, right. I need to quit catering. Luckily I am in grad school which will HOPEFULLY lead to a good enough job when I graduate that I will no longer need to make money on the side.