"There's a Reason We Wear RED"

hahaha, oh gods, today was too funny at work (at least the first half of the day was).

First, I gotta give you some background. You've probably seen me mention the "Stalin thing" at work and are wondering what I'm talking about. It's like this:

Last week, this guy named Frank was fired cuz he called out a bunch of days, including the 4th of July, telling Lora that he had "worked every holiday since he started working there." That's not the type of thing you tell Lora, because she IS the type of person who would go check the old schedules-- and that's just what she did. He had actually only worked two minor holidays, and I guess this pissed her off enough to fire him right then and there.

So, when this week's schedule was posted, Chris and I noticed that, if you didn't know where Frank's days had been listed, it would just look like a normal space on the page. For some reason, this totally reminded me of how Stalin had people "removed" from photographs, etc. so that it seemed they never existed. Since Chris and I are both history nerds, we found this incredibly amusing. :p Chris also mentioned that if someone mentions a recently fired person to Lora, she acts as though she doesn't know who you're talking about. So that goes along with it too.

Thus, we thought it would be hilarious to post a picture of Stalin in the breakroom-- no one else will understand except us, but that's okay. :p And we're not sure Lora would appreciate us comparing her to such a um, interesting person (haha), so hopefully she'll remain ignorant and just think it's us crazy college kids being weird.

Since I don't have a printer, I haven't been able to print any pictures, but I promised Chris I'd bring in one for Friday. We were joking about it non-stop today-- everyone else was like "What are you guys talking about?!" Like how we now refer to each other as "comrade." And we're going to change our register passwords to the dates of important events in Stalin's life. Then I also came up with the slogan, "Brooks Pharmacy-- There's a Reason We Wear RED," which had us cracking up for a good long while. XD Yeah, we're definitely taking this way too far, hehe.

Today was also funny because I brought in the fruitcake again and Lora completely LOVED it. I'm serious-- and she's not the type of person to go crazy over stuff. I had a few pieces left after Joyce tried some (she thought it was good) and Chris had another piece and I also had some during my break, so I let Lora take what was left home, haha. My Mom also loved it. She didn't have any yesterday, but I was woken up by her yelling "THAT FRUIT CAKE IS DELICIOUS!" at, you know, 7am. After going to bed at 3am. Urg. And then I was nevous cuz there hadn't been that many pieces left and she had gone ahead and eaten a bunch of them. It's hard to get mad at her for eating though, so I let it slide. :p

I still have lots of candied fruit left; maybe I'll make another one! hehe

Later in the evening, a few REALLY annoying things happened cuz "Kevin" and one of the girls that lust after him were working tonight. I don't even want to get into it but if similar shit happens next week, I'm not going to stop my inner bitch from taking over. v_v

Ummm, I really don't have much to say today. Tomorrow I'm going to the park early in the morning, then I'm going to the URI library for some books and to ::ahem:: print out something. Later in the day I'll be heading over to Rich's apartment as usual, but I have no idea what we'll be doing.

Other than that, I'll be online tonight (am I ever not? haha) so you know what to do if you're feeling inclined. And don't forget about the NYC trip, which is still happening unless it rains.