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So I worked with Jose a bit today and yup, I like him so far. His complete lack of experience as a cook means that he has no bad habits I have to break him of, and his lack of knife skills means he has to go slow to learn correctly. I'm super happy about that, because that was the one thing I didn't like about Cesar. He has lots of work experience, so like for example he would never cut green onions finely enough because he wanted to go faster rather than do it correctly. But I mean like Jose, he has no experience as a cook and his knife cuts were still pretty damn good because he took the time to try and get it right the first time. I feel that's a good sign.

Part of it too is that I just have this urge to take someone fresh and make them into something great. Fernando said that he was like, "Oh man I want to learn sushi now!" He knows where it's at. Who the hell would want to work in a hot, sweaty kitchen, making less money and no tips, when you can be a sushi chef, which people actually think is really fucking impressive? He needs more kitchen production experience, and to develop knife skills, but I think if he tries hard and I don't suck as a teacher, he has the potential for it. Negi cuts need a little work, but even I don't cut those perfectly and I've been doing this for an entire year, so all things considered he still did great.

Dave hired another guy that he wanted to teach sushi, Chato, and that guy's not bad by any definition but I'm just not feeling it from him so much. I just have this really good feeling about Jose, I have little basis for it but I have a strong feeling in my gut. Fernando likes him too, we both want to teach him sushi, but Dario doesn't really want us to have him. He wants Jose for the kitchen, but Jose said he wants to do sushi. I don't see any reason he can't do both for now. When we slow down, which we inevitably will because there is no bloody snow, I can hopefully teach him more stuff. And like I mentioned he's super cute, but he's also like 18 so I feel like a total cradle-robber hahaha.

But he needs to learn English if he wants to do sushi. He can't even string together a simple sentence right now. I had to use the Google Translate app to communicate everything to him. English doesn't translate perfectly to Spanish through the app though, everything kept coming out wrong and he gave me many a confused look, so I switched the language to Japanese and the translation was almost always perfect.

Lol so Eloy and I despise Dylan. It basically stems from that he's lazy. I can't stand to have someone like that try to tell me what to do like he thinks I can't do my job, it pisses me off. Can't stand him. Eloy used to think he was alright, but right now he seems to dislike him about as much as I do. Fernando doesn't think much of Dylan as a sushi chef, but he seems relatively indifferent to him otherwise. Dylan seems to think Eloy is cool with him, but he knows I don't like him and certainly thinks I am a giant bitch and like I mentioned, I don't really care. Not worth that much concern.

Tomorrow is my off day from Sushi Rei, I totally need it. The past two weeks have been pretty stressful, but I think I'm really getting used to being on the line now. Eloy is pissed at everyone for some reason, dealing with him is really difficult and honestly he's kind of a pain these days. I dunno, I'm kind of over him. Fernando is the only person I like to talk to right now because he's the only one whose head is on straight, it feels like.