The World of Scott Mindeaux

I have confidence…or do I?

What will this day be like, I wonder…
What will my future be, I wonder…

I must stop these doubts all these worries, if I don’t I just know I’ll turn back
i must dream of the things I am seeking, I am seeking the courage I lack

-excerpt from I Have Confidence by maria von trapp

I move to Seattle in less than two weeks. Stephanie my assistant was finally promoted to my old position as the new Culinary Program Coordinator for our Arlington school. It was a happy day for her today. We also hired an assistant for her. I wish her the best of luck in her new program and hope she carries on the torch.

I continue to be sad about leaving DC and leaving Brian. I continue to poke and berrate Brian, probalby in my stupid attempt for his attention. I feel that I need to jab him now and then just to keep his attention away from Donno. Don’t think its working. I”m sad. I just want my last few days in DC to be with him and to have his attention, not Donno’s.

Yea! It’s official

What a day! I think I was on the phone with almost every Sur La Table school today. Sandy left for Carlsbad this morning as Aliza is hosting her first class in our new store in Carlsbad. I was up pretty late last night working on CMI stuff and was up til about 5am!

I decided to work at home today so I could concentrate on getting some things done and to prepare for our Regional Manager Conferences taking place in the next few weeks. I’m heading to Los Angeles next week and then to Cleveland the week after that. In between those two trips, I’ll head to Seattle to continue to try and find a place to live.

I was reading work email and today I officially became the Culinary Operations and Content Manager for Sur La Table. This is a newly created position and today it was officially announced to the company. I’m very excited about my new respnosibilities and the big move to Seattle!

You Better Don’t??

Ok…so I’m at home after a REALLY really long day and I’m watching Smallville and this commercial comes on. It starts off with this kid peeking over the back of an airline seat and then his mom pops up. Then the camera pans over to two other people sitting across from a couple eatting Mcdonald’s Chicken Strips on the plane. They’re all like into the strips. Then the seatbelt light comes on and the flight attendant is coming by to pick up trash and he reaches for the chicken and the girl in the set exclaims “YOU BETTER DON’T”. Ummm… ok…but isn’t that like bad grammar? I mean…You Better Don’t??

So I went online to look up that phrase to see if I wasn’t in touch with pop culture to know that it was some new phrase out there. Well..my google search turned up nothing.

So what’s the deal?

I used to blog…

I used to keep a “blog” on my site. Since moving back to DC, I haven’t had the time to update it. Well…a new chapter in my life is about to begin and I thought I would take the time to start one up again.

It’s late on Labor Day…well…technically its 2am on Tuesday, September 7. I just finished what was about 4.5 hours of EXCEL hell. I just spent the last few hours formatting a FILL RATE report for our meeting in the morning. I’m damn tired.

Most of this weekend was spent recupperating from my 12 day trip to Seattle. I went to Seattle to develop and give training to over 16 schools on our new web application for online registration of our students. We trained about 6 schools a day and then we went LIVE last Wednesday.

The other purpose of my trip, was to meet with Renee Behnke and Jana Homsher about a position at corporate. Jana and Andrew met with me and we had a nice conversation about the direction of the Culinary Program and my views on other topics. I had put in a proposal back in July for a Curriculum/Training position at corporate. What was offered to me was something a bit different and more challenging: Culinary Operations Manager. This position was 2nd in command under the newly appointed Culinary Director Sandy Salathe. I have since accepted the position and will be moving to Seattle within the next 30 days. In the meantime, I have to get Stephanie, my assistant, ready to be the new Culinary Coordinator of our Arlington school. I will also be gone on travel for about 2 weeks in September for regional conferences in Los Angeles and Cleveland.

Well..its time for bed. Write to you all later…