Thus, today is the first of (hopefully) many
"Journal Entry Thursdays"
"Journal Entry Thursdays"
I know 2008 was a long time ago, but many life-defining-moments happened that year. (even though I didn't know it at the time).
March 20th 2008
I met Scott Gregory Keyes.
At the time, we both worked for BYU Catering. I began working there (because I needed a job and my sister was a captain and convinced me to apply) as a waitstaff in August 2007. In October I was promoted to Maitre-d, which basically means you get more responsibility, work more hours, and have to work with the costumers a lot more--but mostly, I did it for the pay raise.
March 20th, I was put on as a Maitre'd for probably one of my biggest banquets yet: a 404 person Regular Serve (as opposed to a much simpler buffet) in the WSC Ballroom. And because I was so very experienced by this point I was given a Maitre-D trainee to train at the same time. His name was Scott. Scott was a very hard worker, always running around doing whatever it looked like needed to be done. Unfortunately, that was not what he was supposed to be doing. He was supposed to be shadowing me. Which basically means he was supposed to be following me around so that he could learn what Maitre-Ds do. So because he was always off doing something "important", I was constantly chasing him down so I could show him obviously more important things.
Needless to say, I was slightly frustrated that night and Scott didn't make a great impression. Despite this first impression, Scott and I were both dating other people at the time. So of course, nothing happened right away.
May 2008
Captain Promotions!
For those of you not familiar with how Catering works, a Captain is a student supervisor who is put in charge of events. Captains work with their full-time (or three-quarter time) ECs (or event coordinators) to carry out events. They do everything from preparations before the event to carrying out the actually event (where they are put in charge of a varying number of other students) to cleaning up after the event.
Basically, being a captain is a lot of work. But, it comes with more hours (which I was looking for that summer, since I wasn't in school), more money (which I was also looking for that summer....), and more social life (which I didn't necessarily need. but hey, why not?).
Scott and I were both promoted that May and became Captain Trainees. Not only that, but because of EFY and a lack of full Captains, we were thrown into several banquets together while learning how to do things on our own.
Here is a picture of Scott as my Maitre'd on one of my first Wedding Banquets
(shortly after becoming a Captain)
He is sad that the flower I gave him fell out of his pocket.
ps. we were nothing more than friends at this point
June 30, 2008
Our first date.
Summer of 2008 was partially, for me at least, characterized by Catering Date Nights. These basically consisted of all the Captains being paired up with other Captains to go on huge group dates on Monday nights. They were a lot of fun.
For the first date, we had a bonfire and roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. Interestingly, Scott and I were paired up for the this one...
... and he was obviously a lot more excited about it than I was.
...to be continued.
1 comment:
That's so funny! I can totally see Scott running around trying to "help" the first time you met. He was probably trying to impress you!
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