CRAZINESS!!

Okay - I admit, I must have been out of my mind when I was contemplating possibly working while I was attending both the culinary and the sommelier programs on a full time basis at PCI. I still think that I'm a little crazy even now and I'm not working.

Life has been a little crazy and hectic, to say the least. I've been buried in schoolwork for the last several weeks and weekends. I'm still trying to work out a study schedule and just get into the general groove of things. It's all starting to gel. I wish that my boxes and all the other things around the house would do the same! =) Ah well - we can't expect to be able to do all things at once can we? I'm a firm believer that you "can have it all"...you just can't have it all at the same time!!

So - I'm throwing myself wholeheartedly into this school business and am learning an entirely different field to see if it's something that I'd like to spend the rest of my life doing. (Or at least until I change fields again!)

It's only the 4th week since I've started school. I've already had one certification exam - passed successfully...Certified Sanitation "whatever" by the state of California. Last week was our paper exam (yes - it's JUST like school!!) and a practical exam for our first section of culinary - Kitchen Essentials 101 (Knife Skills, Soups and Sauces). This week I've got 2 field trips for wine and then we have a final next week. AAAACKKK! I'm definitely feeling a little out of depth in the wine class, I don't have the palate that many of my classmates do. But on the other hand I'm just right in the middle of that class - not the best, but I don't think that I'm the worst one. At least I hope that I'm not. I'll let you guys know how I do.

I did okay in my culinary final - I'm definitely one of the slower ones though. I've got to pick up the pace otherwise I'll never keep up when we get to the full menu preparations in a class. *sigh* Always room for improvement I guess!!

More soon!