Alessandra Ranelli

I don't think we have time for everything.

It's a great story, but it really begins in the, like one of the worst weeks of my life.

I had been

Fired in German, dumped via text, and then rejected from grad school by ghosting via email.

So things were not looking great for me.

In Austria, when you lose a job, this was the first time I really got fired from a job.

When you lose a job, you still work two weeks.

And so I had my last shift.

And then I decided to go out on a high note.

I put on a cute dress, this polka dot dress that kind of demanded trouble.

So it was a cute line cook.

And I was like, maybe, maybe I'll get some luck on the way out.

Did not get the line cook.

But I got home and I thought, this dress needs more fun.

And I went out to the Los Bar, which is an American style cocktail bar in Vienna.

And I had this really wild evening with a bunch of

weird characters.

And at the end of that night, this theater director in his 70s said, you know, if I were a younger man, I would invite you to the Hotel Orient.

And I assume that he assumed I didn't know what that means.

So I said, first of all, I'm assuming you think I don't know what that means because I'm American, but I do.