Read this article a few days ago and don’t know if it made me hyper aware of it or smthbg but I have been greeted with “welcome in” in every single hospitality space I’ve stepped into in California and it’s kind of making me nuts

Fervently apologizing g to my cat for being out working for 12 hours like he pays his own way or something

always gotta be the gayest wine rep at the wine fair (it’s easy)

absolutely deranged number of mosquitos at my dad’s house, sky grey with smoke, humid smog warning.

opening a normcore wine bar

Article about unlicensed tour guides reminded me of the guy (precovid) who would bring groups of 8+ people to the restaurant and order like 4 sides of breakfast sausage to share as part of his Airbnb experience or whatever

Aux 4 stations BIXI près de chez moi que des vélos avec des flats, impossible de les signaler à cause du bouton brisé… beau départ pour la saison @BIXImontreal

When I go in and out of the trade fair my pass is scanned and it’s giving big surveillance vibes- like I showed up to my 10am apt and they asked me to come back in 30 when the wines wouldn’t be too cold so I went across the street for a coffee, am I in trouble

I was pretty excited after a week spent mostly in rural France that there’s a specialty coffee shop around the corner from where I’m staying in bcn but the coffee is extremely celery juice vibes

Like last year, the public transit authority (STM) is overshooting its budget (due to the pandemic-caused decrease in ridership) and it’s being treated as a crisis. Meanwhile the SPVM has overspent by at least $54m (as of Oct 31) and no one in power seems to care.

like yeah girl I know exactly what these two wines are I just want you to look at my food order and wine top me

the unbearable dance of being a person who like «  knows about wine » professionally at a « notable wine restaurant » in another city and wanting the grown up answer without having to flash your (metaphorical) wine pro card.

Finishing my run behind the garbage truck in the alley behind my house, b refreshing

intrusive thoughts about quitting (1of) my jobs but I crave structure :/

in my "nothing is a better dinner than a big salad with a protein on it" era and never been happier tbh

*man sitting in a restaurant that serves regeneratively grazed meat and bio-intensive farmed vegetables explaining to his date why reducing the use of chemical fertilizers will ruin the economy*

Stayed up till 6 am once and ruined my sleep cycle forever

As a person of restaurant management experience I think it’s great that people are making earlier reservations, as a human being I think eating dinner at 5 pm is absolutely bizarre and I refuse to consider it unless I’m jet lagged or didn’t eat lunch

Love that the nyt news updates that I signed up for as a teenager and have never changed settings for never fail to tell me who wins the Kentucky Derby 🐎 🐎 🐎

only goal for my day was to make coffee before work and I did not 🫠