It's Getting Better Man

Finally I seem to be achieving some sort of progress regarding my student loan, apparently I should have it within the next 5-7 working days ( from Tuesday ) , thankfully I was signing on during the summer and I got my bursary ( all of which went towards paying my rent ).  I had a pop at SAAS on Facebook which seemed to get their arses in gear, I told other users of football forum http://www.pieandbovril.com/ about this and a few others went and done the same, now SAAS are telling people not to message their Facebook page as they can't reply, I like to think I had something to do with that.  *evil laugh *

At least my bills are paid for this month and I can relax a wee bit without fear of pissing my landlords off as they seem to be really brilliant people and I didn't want to look like an arsehole of a tenant by not paying my rent and billls as soon as I moved in.

I think I'm finally growing up, well it must be a sign when I'm more concerned about the fact I have no fabric conditioner rather than having no beer.

My college term started off well enough, my class on a Wednesday seems not that much different from the Restaurant Food Production with Menu Planning that I did last year obviously with a wee bit more work involved but I am confident that I won't have any problems and David Rutter seems like a much better and tolerant chef than Cameron Campbell, still has to show a wee bit more if I am to rate him as high as Gary Cromie but early signs are good.

It was unusual to have 2/3 people working on 1 batch of soup and bread as I am used to 1 person doing all that themselves but I suspect that David just wants to get an idea of where we are skills wise as we're not a class of chefs we are a class of hospitality managers.

We are doing Malaysian Chicken and Sticky Toffee Pudding next week, again pretty basic stuff but it fills some time before our service weeks start, the week before the October holiday  which I thought was quite late to start service but they're saying it's early !!  A couple of 6pm finishes now on a Wednesday which isn't too bad considering I have no idea when we'll finish  once we get into the swing of things after service starts.

It's quite weird for my locker to be 2 corridors away from the changing rooms and the fact we have to take our own tea towels in, the stock people are even worse than Joy was at Carnegie, they go daft when you use more blue roll than they think is acceptable.  Another difference is that we have to wear safety shoes in the Dundee College as outdoor shoes are not acceptable apparently while at Carnegie I wore my trainers for 2 years in the kitchen without so much as anyone giving them a second glance and SQA never said anything so I don't know what the difference is there.

I'm not looking forward to Intermediate Food Hygiene tomorrow, as well as apparently as well as being solid ( from what tutors have told me ) and having to write 500 word answers to one question, we're also gonnae find out the full impact of what food borne diseases etc. do to people, lovely...