It's been a while since I last wrote on this diary! Almost 10 months...
My last entry was on october 6th. After writing that entry, I went to work and to a date that night. Since that night, I've been sharing my life with a great man.

That, and work, and uni, kept me from drawing, and from keeping in touch with some people I care alot about.

Tomorrow is my last day of work, I quit. I want to have more time to draw...

Mhhh.....
Let's talk about work.
My job isn't highly intellectual, but quite tiring, physically speaking. In the "sort-of-Japanese-ehm-restaurant" where I work as a waitress, there are max 3 waiters working for something like 80/90 customers at the same time (around 30% of them are foreigners). Every waiter must:
*welcome the customers
*find a seat for the customers (table or bar)
*explain to the new customers how the restaurant works (it's a sort of sushi bar, unknown concept in France)
*take orders
*bring orders to the kitchen
*bring food from the kitchen to the customers
*clean up the tables and bring to the kitchen dirty dishes/glasses etc.
*fill and re-fill soy sauce, wasabi and vinagear ginger boxes (on every table)
*prepare miso soup (the WORST thing ever) and bring it
*prepare part of the western desserts
*bring beers and such (I sometimes forget to open the bottle!)
*Count the dishes for the customers who wish to pay
*Go to the cashier and, worst of all, use the cashier.
Result: I run everywhere all the time.
Now, one customer must take care of something like 30 customers. But that is OK! I mean, it's not that much. It's normal.

BUT. The most horrible part is closing time. Around 23:00 (11PM), every waiter has at least 2 tasks to do whithin the hour.
There are 3 main tasks (one for every waiter):
~"The Sauce"
~"The Cave"
~"The Tables"
Let me explain:
The waiter who does "The Sauce" must take every soy sauce bottle, wasabi and ginger box from every table, bring it to the kitchen, and wash it. (There are around 80 pieces....). Then, the same waiter must clean up the rolling bar.
The one who does "The Cave" must count every missing bottle from the 2 restaurant fridges and go to the other side of the mall to take the needed bottles. Needless to say, that is painfully heavy and hard to do. Especially if you keep on forgetting bottles... (Once I counted 33 missing coke bottles, but in reality 11 of them where coke*light* so I had to bring them back T_T). Then, the same waiter must clean up the floor.
"The Tables" is probably the most hated one. It consists on cleaning up every table (there are 22 tables), filling every table with chopsticks and tissues, then cleaning up the water distribution system (every table has its own free water). I forgot what is the other task... Of course, someone also must clean every visible part of the restaurant.

Well, this job is kinda... harder than I expected. But I am endlessly happy to have it! I work with such nice people...
~Dani: The tall, thin, black and gay guy. He's just funny. He keeps saying that he doesn't like me, but I don't know if I should believe him or not... He has a nice smile, and loves to party. His main topic is sex. He's the only other part time waiter there, he also goes to university. He's very square minded, he respects his superiors but is not submissive. One day, he finished working at midnight (00:00); so, he went to the office to change into normal clothes and there were his superior and the general director of the restaurant. His superior said: "No, we must go back to the restaurant to check everything". But Dani answered: "I'm sorry, my shift is over. You had to come before midnight". He said so in front of the General Director! He's got guts
~Aurélie: My favorite girl. She is sensitive and cute, and SO funny! We laugh alot together.. eheh. Yesterday, she said I am the funniest girl she's ever met, and she wants to work with me more often! awww....
~Renaud: he's quite nice. He is a typical French guy. Quite good looking and soft, his skin is milky white. He looks nice, innocent and pure, but I'm sure he is not
~Patrick: my favorite co-worker! Everybody at work thinks we will become a couple. He is short (much shorter than me) but REALLY good looking. His smile is SO charming and he has... a sort of aura. He is very sensual, outside of work. Yesterday night we went to have a drink together in St.Michel and I had a real good time. He drove me home (I live SO far away from his house) and I felt good. Really good! Tonight I will meet him again
~Micheline: She is the manager. She is so calm and soft that sometimes I can't understand her... But yesterday I understood she is a really nice and funny woman, and I had fun talking with her. I am the youngest waitress there, but she really doesn't care. I like her alot.
~Mina: Another manager. She is also funny, and beautiful like Micheline. But she is harder, and always gives tasks to everybody. When Mina is in the restaurant, she wants to see everybody running and working! We really can't talk even for 5 seconds...
~Michel: a cook! 2 days ago I called him "Nostradamus" because I couldn't remember his name. Now, everybody calls him Nostradamus.
~Jean-Lou: Such a sweet guy! He is also a manager, and he has deep blue eyes. He's kind hearted and... adorable!
~Julien: he's 20, and he worked in restaurants since the age of 15. He wants to become a musician and his band has many concerts, especially raggae. He used to shave his head but now he lets hair grow. He has marijuana plants in his appartment!
~Sébastien: Another manager. Recently, he got homeless, but he has a nice salary, so he can live almost normally. I will ask him if he wants to live in my house for some time until he finds an appartment...
~Abu: An african sweet guy. His words seem to be deeper than other people's words. He is really intelligent, but people consider him as a simple immigrant. I like going home with him, because he tells me about his family in Africa.


This post was more for my personal memory than for public viewing, however, here it is.

I'll try to keep this entry as short as possible, although I have so many things to write! I must take a shower before I go to work because I feel dirty ^^'''

Oh! I have already mentioned work. Well.....; *tries to contain her emotion*.... YEAH!!! I started working last tuesday. I take the night shift (7PM~0AM). That means I must clean up everything with 2 other waiters... it's so long and boring! At least I get to eat free Japanese cooking everynight
I usually run alot during my shift, and I love to keep smiling at customers and the people I work with. However, some customers constantly hit on me, and that's really annoying -_-'

Yesterday was my free day! I went to Lea's house for dinner with Diane. I LOVE Lea's little brother! He is SO SO SO SO SO cute. His name is "Edgar", isn't that just adorable? It's the same name as the villian in the Aristocats disney movie. I dig Edgars. Last year when I went to Lea's house for dinner, he told his sister that I have beautiful hair AHAH! It's so cute to say so.

Anyway dinner was so nice, I love talking to those 2 girls! We drank 2 bottles of whine, burned part of the kitchen while cooking a "banane flambé" with Cognac liquor, and *maybe* various other little side drinks. I don't need to say I was completely drunk by 1AM! My state of drunkness made me realize how lucky I am to have friends like Diane and Lea. They are like so intelligent and kind, I feel sort of "honored" to be their friend.

This morning I woke up with such a strong headache! In the backroom of my brain, my mind found pieces of a dream I had during the night.. It was about a person I care alot about, and I started thinking about him (it was 8:30 in the morning!!). He lives about 10,000km far from me, so phone calls are quite expensive but I couldn't resist and I ringed his cell phone. He's such a sweet guy, I mean, lately I've been thinking so much about him, about us... well, after ringing him, my sleepy eyes realized that today I had a meeting at 10:00 at the university, sort of "welcome meeting"... He called me back and we talked about 5 minutes and 48 seconds before I hung up with the intention of sleeping again. But my mind is too pure ( ), and I couldn't sleep knowing I would miss the meeting. So I hurried and got up, washed my face, got dressed and ran. I arrived on time! My uni is like SO far from my house, it takes about 1 hour to arrive (sometimes more, especially if you don't run).

At the uni I met some of my future teachers and, of course, the director. He was like.. "The class rooms can contain 200 students. But this year, we have 650 students in the Japanese faculty.". You get the idea.
Other than that, he focused on the point that this uni is the only university in the world where students can study one culture at 100%. I am so happy about it and all classes seem interesting to me! Even if I will enter the first year, some classes are completely in Japanese. It's weird, but I guess it will be SO useful in the future.

At the beginning of this post I said I would keep this short, so, yeah....
Byebye~

...oh yeah baby!

Today was the most intense day of artistic production. I even forgot to eat. I just drew all day, in front of my computer, while listening to music... But what can I do? I just am NEVER pleased with what I draw.

Two nights ago I watched, at my cool uncle's house, 2 episodes of the American TV show "Masters of Horror". One was directed by Dario Argento and the other by Takashi Miike.

Now, you all remember Dario Argento from his horror movie "Euphoria", right? It was scary, right? Well that episode he directed was so scary that apparently, American television refused to broadcast it! Just for the record, the name of the episode is: Jenifer. The story is INCREDIBLY interesting, but... oh my! Never trust girls with beautiful bodies and ugly faces.

The other episode was wonderfully shot in ancient Japan. Beautiful (or almost!) geisha's, an American man full of regrets... It's a nice start for a horror story, isn't it? But I'm sure you won't be able to even IMAGINE the horrors that will follow. Just to give an idea: American and French telelvision didn't even BUY the episode. It was purely gore, I have no words to describe the violence of that episode... The worst part is that while I was watching, I thought "they cannot show that, it's too horrible!", but they DID show it, they showed everything! As my uncle said: "Only Japanese people can think about such horrible things." (<--he was deadly serious!).


I don't have much to say... Just that tomorrow I'm going to start working!! I've been hired by a sort of Japanese restaurant. I am so happy!!! Let's hope the uniform doesn't make me look fat~

Today's entry will be... more practical.

My friend Diane, who works on the Champs Elysées (how lucky she is), has realized yesterday that if she eats at the restaurant where she works everyday, for 1.50euros a day, in one month she would spend at least 40euros. That was a shocking fact for her, who never liked maths, eheh.

So my mission is now to bring her lunch every day when I can

Today I have cooked PASTA FREDDA! It is an italian VERY SIMPLE recipe; pasta fredda means "cold pasta".
It is typically italian and very cheap to make, so here I go, a 100% south of Italy delicious recipe:

Ingredients:
*short pasta (NOT spaghetti; you can use any type of short pasta like "penne", or "orecchiette" or whatever, but nothing long^^)
*mozzarella cheese
*fresh little tomatoes
*basil leaves OR dry basil
*extra virgin olive oil
*salt

How to make:
*First, start boiling a lot of water. Once the water is boiling, pour a large quantity of salt in it; don't be afraid of putting too much. Once the water starts boiling again, put pasta in it. Count 100g per person! Read the instructions on the box to know how long it should cook. I personally like it "al dente", and that means normally 11minutes for short pasta.

*Meanwhile, wash the tomatoes and cut them into little pieces. To know how many tomatoes and how much mozzarella to use, remember that the final dish should have nice colors in harmony; there should not be too much red, too much white or too much yellow (pasta is yellow XD). Put the cut tomatoes in a large bowl (that will contain all the pasta). Also cut the mozzarella cheese into pieces of the same size as tomatoes, and mix the 2 ingredients together. Wash the basil leaves and add them too. If you are using dry basil, wait until the end before putting it.

*Once the pasta is ready, put it in a separate bowl. Add MUCH olive oil (so that it doesn't get sticky) and wait around 20 minutes for it to get cold. When the pasta is completely cold, pour it in the bowl with tomatoes and mozzarella. At this moment, if you wish, you can add dry basil.

*Let it rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes, and then....

The Pasta Fredda is ready! It's my favorite summer dish, along with rice salad... But I will write that recipe another time