today was my first ever cookbook club at calumet city public library! i made three bean chili and french onion soup. sadly, neither of the 2 people that signed up actually showed but quite a few people showed interest in joining next month. mom came after finishing up the french onion for me, carlos, a frequent patron, also came in and indulged. anthony and aliyah joined and loved the french onion soup. i also got one of the line dancing ladies to try it since she came in early. i was highkey bummed out about the turnout but i'm sure next month will be better.
anyway i can't mention this month's cbc without going over how ridiculous this morning was. so 9:04 am, i drive into the parking lot to see that bitch fucking packed. it was crazy how many cars there were i ended up having to park on the side of the building after getting all the supplies and chili out my car. then once i walk into the community room i see that they took my fucking table this damn city hall event they held at the library. a damn "breakfast with the mayor" that for some reason required a LOUD ASS DJ to mc it. i still can't believe they took my table it was obviously in use since it had a table cloth on it and there was a buffet table prepared not even three feet away. but it was whatever ig cause i luckily found some extras in the back closet. then i just waited for 11:00 am to roll around and went into the community room to host. during the cbc, the city hall event was ending and aliyah came in and told us we were gonna be having a "team meeting" soon. it was basically just a little lecture about talking behind managements back framed as an open discussion. i, politely, expressed my grievances about the volume level of the city hall events.
after that work went pretty normal. i was able to get halfway through my communication reading but then aliyah came by and dropped these funky looking, amazon BHM decorations at my desk so anthony and i had to put that together. while anthony and i were putting up the vertical banners that read "BLACK" "HISTORY month", ms. vee decided it was absolutely necessary that she put her two cents in. we decided on putting the banners on two separate columns with the "BLACK" banner on the left one and "HISTORY month" on the right, but for some reason ms. vee thought that because people would be walking in from the right that we should put the "BLACK" one on the right column....i didn't argue. later, from my desk i could see deanne ask the guys by the welcome desk "what's wrong with this picture?" while pointing to the banners...i didn't get up. soon after that i saw her and some other people switching the banners around.
after work, anthony, aliyah, and i went to chili's out in homewood. we had a really nice time and exchanged socials!! we talked a bit about our personal lives and a lot of shit about our coworkers. i also made them laugh a lot so i count that as an accomplishment.
