Evidence of Life

"I know the world is going to end but I was thinking of getting a slow cooker." –Marga Gomez on Facebook

In the days when I was catering, I liked to work what was called “sanit,” short for sanitation. You scraped dirty plates handed to you by waiters, one in each hand, bing bop, scraped them into giant garbage bins, you stored the plates and glasses in plastic lugs, you hauled bottles and garbage this way and that. The work produced the fatigue I am always…