This morning at work I had one of those flashes of realization where you think "This is my life right now?" During the morning shifts my manager lets us go to the employee cafeteria to grab some breakfast. I've fallen into the habit of grabbing a small amount of coffe to help me wake up (before working at the Marriott, I never drank straight up coffee). I usually get a bagel and cream cheese to add a little flavor. However this morning they were out of bagels so I ordered a side of tater tots.
After sprinkling some sugar in the coffee and finding a place to sit I looked down at my breakfast and the realization hit me. I think it happened mostly because my meal looked so sad. It wasn't a bad thing; I just stepped back from my work routine for the first time in a while and noticed what I was doing. If I had told the me at the beginning of college that in four years I would be sitting in the employee cafeteria in the Chicago Downtown Marriott staring at a styrofoam bowl of tater tots and a cup of watery coffee, I think the me in college would have felt a little freaked out and hopeless. But looking at it today, I just kind of passed it off and went "Yea, this is your life right now, motherfucker. So drink your coffee, wake up, and enjoy some tater tots."
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I do the same thing after wiping down 100 menus and feeling a sense of acomplishment.
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