thursday

Thursday was an interesting day as well. Although really, aren't they all? Lara and I ran into each other at Como and went into the shop where all the lights were off this time. She told me that Jen and Jason had a lot of new merchandise coming in the shop that day, so we'd be doing a lot of organizing and hanging and memorizing. We now have a whole rack just for women's jeans in the furniture room. Some of them are pretty cute, and I saw some cigarette pants that I covet.

Before this, Lara asked me to re-arrange some hats on the two hat racks, making the left rack for spring, so that is what the approaching customers would first notice, and the right rack for winter. I think I did a pretty good job and Lara, after she was done wiping down the counters and vacuuming, acknowledged a job well done with a compliment. Then it was back on the ladder, because the '50s circle skirts in the other room were completely unorganized. Some of the other interns had tried, she told me, but she never liked their way of organizing them. So I took the time to place them in color coded order.

When Jen and Jason came in later with two huge bags of goodies, I was sent up and down and all around, with everyone else there to help, to put all the new spring and summer items away. Then I got a pleasant surprise. My boyfriend came to visit me at the shop and proceeded to offer me a lunch of strawberries and sushi. It was a really good ending to a very nice day. Before that, I dusted the jewelry rack and told Lara's friend Wendy, on Lara's request, that she was filing for friendship divorce.