Who's in your Chorus?

This is the question one of my friends proposed as I described my literary goals with my blog. Writing a blog is unfamiliar territory for me, it even makes me a bit hesitant and nervous! However, when recommenced by a marketing professional as a way to build a portfolio, I could not refute that it seemed like a good idea.

For a week or so I tossed around topic Ideas to write about. A job hunting survival guide, an amateur’s road to marathon running, a young person’s wine dialogue, or marketing campaigns surrounding me. All seemingly good ideas though slightly daunting, I kept returning to the nagging thought, “write what you know”.

While joking with one of the wait staff that we should write a book about the theories we concoct about life love and food, I realized that it would soon become my newest blog topic.

“Perfect I have a built in audience of at least 20 people! They may provide more ridicule than anything else, but at least they will read it”, I gushed. …This is when my friend jumped in and proclaimed that she was going to get philosophical on me. “Who is in your chorus?” she asked.

Your chorus is the people who, no matter what you try and accomplish, they are singing your praises. They are the people who are pumping air into your physiological tires. Everyone needs back up singers! My back up singers like to mock as a way to show they care.

At the Bistro by the Sea there are always people singing, its not always cabaret, and it most certainly isn’t always praises. The restaurant business can be a high stress environment, and the brutal honesty of manager, Adam or bartender, Ron can seem like anything but praise sometimes. But at the end of the day when you realize that if you are being made fun of you are doing something right being called a lipstick lesbian librarian or Hubasay doesn’t feel too bad!

A few of the bistro staff are defiantly in my chorus and vice versa. While going though a stressful interview process it was the encouragement of Michelle, a server, teacher and mother of two, that kept me hopeful. Karen, server, LaPlante Center Assistant, and single mother is always part of the support system for everyone. Whether it is supporting her old friend writing a book, or me making the transition from hostess to waitress Karen’s heart is bigger that you can imagine and her singing voice, very prominent…metaphorically of course, I am afraid to know how she actually sings.

So whether it’s back up singers for the infamous rollin’ down the river song, sung by Sabrina Blaze, local drag queen and cabaret host or supporting our friends on staff; there are all kinds of choir’s at TBTS. So now I turn to you and ask you who is in your chorus?