The Poorly-Read Librarian

It's been a while since I've had to think about mathematical equations and such, but I very recently discovered a formula to brighten your day:  hole-y roof + torrential downpour = working on day off.  You like?  Me, not so much.  But squeegee-ing is kind of fun, especially in Shoes.  Fabrics and crafts.  The photo lab. The backroom.  Ugh. The backroom.  What a mess.  We pulled at least six shopping carts of sopping wet shoes from the salesfloor.  There were probably four carts from infants.  Thousands of dollars were lost in damaged large-screen TVs.  All but maybe one of our photo-processing machines, including two brand new ones, are swimming and they're not water-anything.  Awesome.  The hopefully-legal immigrants who've been repairing/replacing the roof the past several days and since o'dark thirty this morning?  Apparently, they didn't anticipate this afternoon's thunderstorm.  Poor guys.  They wo...

I know you don't necessarily know Paris as well as I do, but she actually let me wash and brush her hair.  It's a miracle, man!  Her hair looked amazing.  Here's hoping it's somewhat manageable in the morning...

So.  This really isn't an adventure per se, but the new position I alluded to several posts ago has turned out to be quite...sweaty.  What I know how to do so far isn't all that difficult but the salesfloor is so darn hot.  I miss the comforts of Personnel's air conditioning.  Oh, and since the Powers That Be have terminated three assistant managers in the past few weeks, another assistant is in a potentially confidential location for military training, and the store manager is on vacation this week, we are exceptionally short-staffed when it comes to leaders in my store, meaning Zone Supervisors (me) are being asked to step up and assist in a more managerial way.  I'm not exactly uber-thrilled about that one.  I only know how to do a handful of stuff and I still spend some of my time answering (the same) questions (over and over) for the new me in Personnel.  I really miss knowing what I'm doing, but I really enjoy s...

We left in the wee hours of Saturday morning (5 June 2010).  This is a picture of the airport at 5:00 in the morning as 6,000 Walmart associates begin to make their way home: Enough said.  I pity the locals who were trying to fly out that day. Arkansas,  thank you for everything. Also, thank you, Sam's Club lady in the airport, for actually mailing Dan's postcard for me.  I owe you 42 cents.    This was fun.

The adventure continued on Friday, 4 June 2010, with the Annual Shareholder's Meeting and the reason why I went to Arkansas.  I don't recall much of the official business that took place, but I do remember the famous people.  Jamie Foxx was our host and the star of the day.  He is a very twitchy performer; it was hard to get a clear picture.  He sang, he joked, he took Darell's jacket, he imitated Ray Charles... He was absolutely hilarious.  And I loved him on Sesame Street.    Famous person number two, and I still can't get over this: Enrique Iglesias. When in my life would I ever actually see him in a live performance?  That's right.  Never.  This may come as a shocker, so prepare yourself, but he's not actually the greatest singer.  He's really very pitchy, but his earpiece-thing came out, so I'll try not to judge too harshly.  Also, he's very pretty, and, he jumped off the stage and came out into the crowd about te...