Happy Wednesday!
I met Lindsay down in the subway today! Yay! Starting off the day on a good note. :) It's not as fun riding alone!
We had a potential client come into the office today to meet with Alexandra and Jon. Jon even ordered flowers for the occasion to sit on the receptionist desk. The flowers had come the day before and were aleady starting to look a bit droopy. What a shame - they were $125 and it wasn't even a huge arrangement.
Laura and I led them back to the conference room when they arrived and offered them water to drink. Luckily Jon had already made coffee because one of the three people wanted some and I wouldn't have had a clue how to make it. Liz showed me once last week, but I don't think I remember exactly. :)
Courtney came up around 11 or so with some things for me and Laura to do today. She had a huge file of pictures that were of these items in one of Alexandra's storage sheds or something and we needed to resize them all and slightly edit them because they're going to be going on this website: http://vandm.com/default.aspx to be sold. It's such a neat site! And Alex has some of the weirdest items ever that she wants to sell...
Right after I started, Amy came in and had a huge stack of Architex fabrics that she wanted to me order more of. She had a stack of about 15, and she wanted to get one more of each of the colors.
I quickly shot the rep an email and continued with my picture editing.
At about 2 I went out with Courtney on a super random errand. We took a taxi (my first one for this trip actually...) down to some random area in the lower east area. Really lower east. The taxi driver was an idiot too and really didn't say anything and didn't ever seem to know where he was going. Courtney was giving him directions as we drove. Haha. Anyway we finally made it to this cute little bookbinding store called 'Henry's Bookbinding'.
The owner was this CUTE little and old Orthodox Jewish man. The store was something out of the movies. Or hoarders. The entire place was stacked floor to ceiling with just stuff basically. Lots of things. The entire place smelled like old books and I loved that. The place looked super old - almost like the things in there hadn't been touched in 40 years. It was odd. But super neat. Alexandra's son who also works for the company, had all these really really old books that were his grandfather's or something that he wanted to have re-bound. And I didn't seen the books beforehand, but apparently they were in absolutely terrible shape, and now they looked beautiful. Courtney was so pleased when she saw them and said that alex and anthony will just to crazy.
At one point she said 'high five!' to the owner, and he just kind of ignored the action. I thought maybe he hadn't heard her, but after we were back in a cab (which I flagged down all by myself! :)) it occured to her that he probably couldn't because orthodox jews don't touch women. Unless of course they're married to one, but anyone else they don't. Which I hadn't ever heard of before so I didn't know what the reason was. So odd though... we probably made him feel so uncomfortable by doing that. Whoops.
When I returned I took a quick lunch break and then helped Laura finish up editing all those pictures. She had printed out the labels while I was gone so I didn't have to worry about that. At around 4:30 Laura had to return some camera device to a store on 22nd street, so I just ran the desk while she was gone. We were basically done with our big assignments for the day so there wasn't as much to do.
When she got back we worked on this drawing that Aijun gave us. We needed to resize the demensions of all the chairs in this one particular drawing and then draw some new ones as well. Laura isn't as good in cad since she hasn't used it as recently as I have, so I kind of directed that little project. I made some labels for Stella for these Jakarta sample boxes and emailed this carpet rep one more time about getting back to us about replacing all these carpet poms we were missing before I went home.
And I ran into Lindsay AGAIN today on the way home! What is the chance of that? And with her mother too! Yay! She got here today and will be here until Lindsay goes home on Sunday.
Halfway through the week!
Jeez, this entry was sure a rambling one... ramble ramble ramble.
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