Sunday, July 24, 2005

I fold

It's funny the odd little skills and bits of information you pick up on your journey through life. I haven't held that many different jobs, but my career path has had a couple of sharp bends in it and so my brain is littered with not entirely useless but certainly trivial additions to my skill set.

The latest reminder of this fact is this site about how to fold napkins into fancy presentation shapes that Tom pointed out. I picked up a few of these (notably the cardinal's hat (which I always called Sister Bertrille) during my stints as a dinner theatre dancer and sometimes cater-waiter.

(If only I had known about these 20-some years ago, I might have garnered even more county fair 4-H blue ribbons in the table setting competitions. Oh yes, even then, I was a champion designer of theme tables. Surprised? I thought not.)