Dearest Friends...

[justlikepretend]

The time comes in every girl's life where she finds it absolutely necessary that her journal become friends only. Although I've been opposed to this idea for quite some time, it now seems like the logical thing to do. Wheareas my close friends have come to appreciate my idiosyncracies (I think), there are some things that I'd rather not have

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[ngcfan525]

i'm amazed it took you this long.
welcome to the dark side. lol

[bakadeshi]

nah the true dark side is when she starts making friends list cuts and stuff...

[kaiserscott]

i appreciate your idiosyncracies!!!

[talongrip]

they used to play a program kind of like that on 102.9 in charlotte on week nights... not quite sure how I came upon it in the first place, but I used to secretly enjoy listening to it. ;-)

[anonymous]

Your e-mail isn't listed, but I thought you'd find this interesting:

http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/prelaw/index.php/topic,49085.msg1465454.html#msg1465454

[terra_lily]

Oops, that was me. I forgot to log in.

Anyway, I'm posting this here because a) I didn't want to start a flame war, and b) because I'm a lot more coherent after my nap.

If you want to work for chain restaurants, take marketing, but be sure to add a little management. Management theories aren't very helpful for actually managing servers and cooks, but they are helpful for understanding corporate decisions.

If you want to work for smaller businesses, I wouldn't spend much time taking Wharton classes. Wharton gives trains students to think on big scales and focuses on certain industries -- and thinking along those lines can be counterproductive in smaller, independent restaurants.

I've found that Mary Summers' Politics of Food was far and away the most helpful. I already had a ton of restaurant experience by the time I took it, but it did help me understand things from my suppliers' perspective.

Also, it's very, VERY important to think of food as sculptures with four dimensions.

Good luck. :)