I never worked fast food. I did, however, work at a Raleigh Record Bar in the early '90s, during the Christmas rush.

"Do you have this country cd? It's by this guy, and the main song's about how his girlfriend's gone."

". . ."

"Oh, and there's a guy in a hat on the cd case."

". . . I'll . . . I'll see what I can find."

Hellos!

I have never worked food service, but one of the locations where the traveling music school goes is a youth center. We try to support our partnering organizations' efforts, which means making french fries there. I am so off fried foods forever.

I too took the retail track, and have only ever worked in food in my college dorm. Which was your basic work-study, "make sure breakfast is available, and if it pleases you, quiz half-awake people about the state capitals" job, which I had for one year before qualifying for nier jobs.

My brother has done plenty of food service, and for a while this spring, worked making bread for Bertucci's, so we could legitimately say he was makin' dough.

I introduced two of my officemates to David Sedaris. That is my good deed of the day.

I am unpleased with my lunch. Turkey Cheeseburger delux which would normally make me happy, but they promised pickle and delivered none, and the fries aren't good. Last time I am going to that place.

Ack. Have to send a letter to someone. Anyone familiar with the (first) name Hayl? Is that a female name, as I'm assuming?

Anyone familiar with the (first) name Hayl? Is that a female name, as I'm assuming?

Oooh! I just read something about this subject today. You can use Google Image Search for exotic names to determine if they are male or female.

That is BRILLIANT.

Somehow, during that very early "food or retail" stage of life, I ended up in retail.

I guess I've actually done more food service than retail, thanks to working a couple of weddings with a catering company and a couple of banquets in high school. I've mostly had office and child care jobs.

I never worked fast food or retail. I had a lot of afterschool/weekend activities, so I didn't work in high school. In college I figured out that I could make more doing secretarial temp work (and sit down all day) than retail. I worked at a theatre box office for two summers, though. does that count?

Got 'er. Found my target in a listing of women honorees for something at UMass some years ago. Yay.

Fun science news from Slate:

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Parasites turn insects into zombies. A worm grows inside a grasshopper, eats nearly all of its organs, then injects proteins into the brain to make the grasshopper jump into water, where the grasshopper dies and the worm can propagate. A wasp larva similarly commandeers spiders to make them build larva homes before the larva kills the spider.

Britain authorized creation of embryos with three parents. The third parent, a woman, contributes a small amount of DNA found in mitochondria, cellular components outside the nucleus. The idea is to protect children who might get disease-causing mitochondrial DNA from their mothers.