The Blogger In Repose
(or, "School is back in session, bitches!")
It's the Labour Day Monday, which naturally means two things. First and foremost, it's a day off for Mel & myself, wherein we need not worry about the store(s) calling us for some silly-assed emergency or question. And point the second: the Back To School hell week is finally over. As of tomorrow, the little rugrats will be shoved into a mulitude of perkily-decorated classrooms, as opposed to having them running through our store and tearing it to shreds.
I'll leave the slightly misanthropic rantings elsewhere, since you've all heard them before (and, depending on your own vocational experiences, probably have your own similar rants). Suffice to say, this week saw a non-stop, steady stream of families tearing apart our displays. And of course, Saturday and Sunday were perhaps the worst, as our store teemed from open to close with families who realized that, hey! School starts Tuesday!
But all that is over now. There will still be a number of crowds who will descend on us over the next week, but they'll be concentrated in the evenings. (And more importantly, when I'm not around.) I am rather looking forward to a month of considerably less stress and running around the store.
Mel is too, since next week is her last week at the 6th Ring of Hell (also known as the Stratford store). With a manager and full-timer now hired for that location, most of this upcoming week will see her stepping back and letting them take charge, while she more serves as a consultant for any questions/problems they have.
So good-bye to hordes of backpacks that have overtaken our stockroom. Fare thee well, overflowing bunks of lunch boxes. And kiss my slightly misanthropic ranting ass, families demanding to know why we don't have anything they want this far into the BTS season.
Hmm...and in retrospect, so much for the "I won't rant about this" comment earlier. Oh well.
In other news, about a week ago, as the Olympics were wrapping up, I noticed on a number of Net news sites that the list of Top 5 Hot Topics included "underage gymnasts." Now if i hadn't heard about that particular controversy, I'd be incredibly worried. (Hell, I still am.)
"No, really, your Honour, those pictures on my computer were just research on the '08 Olympics! Honestly!"
Now if you'll excuse me, there's an afternoon I have to lounge through, and a box of cookies who are luring me into the kitchen with their siren's song...
Labels: apparently 'perkily' is recognzied as a valid word despite sounding very silly, BTS hell week 08
posted by Phillip at 11:29 AM
