Just another day in the typical life of a Londoner!

Today was a great day! There have been a lot of people out of the office for the past 10 days on "holiday". One of them came back today, and it is a good thing he did, because the merchandising team was starting to get behind without him there! (he may be at the bottom of the totem pole, but I think he is the main guy holding our team together!) The other person that is on holiday is the buyer's assistant for Howick (the private label brand). He left on Friday, and will be gone for 10 days, so I will have his job until he gets back-- and boy do I love his job! I may not give it back to him when he gets here! And I am not sure if the buyer will want to let me go!
Today when I got to work my first task was to straighten and re-arrange the samples cubbard. They keep all of their finalized designs in a cubbard, but it was a mess-- people would just go by and throw the clothing in there... so I went through and folded everything, and labeled the different shelves with the type of sweaters that were on certain shelves. When the buyer walked by the cubbard, I thought she had died and gone to heaven! She stopped dead in her tracks, and smiled... said that it looked EMMACULATE, and that she was just so happy, and wished I had been working with her all along-- and that it was how she had always pictured the cubbard looking! I felt pretty good after that! A couple of other teams came over begging me to do their too... but Lisa didn't want to give me away!
After I cleaned out the cubbard I went to a fit session with the buyers and designers. It was so cool! I was in charge of sitting with the laptop and typing down the comments that everyone had to say about each article of clothing. At one point Lisa was telling me what to type, and I was looking at her while I was typing, and she goes "oh my gosh, can you touch type???" I wasnt sure what that was at the time, but apparantely no one in London can type without looking at the computer screen... and she was totally amazed that I could type and not even look at the keyboard (I guess all of those years on AOL Instant Messenger paid off!) ! She told me that as long as I am here, she wants me at the fit sessions to be their typist! She said that I got it done a lot faster, and that also allowed time for me to comment on the clothing!

I have decided that I definitely like the buying side better than the merchandising side. Though I am really good at the math and computer work for the merchandising side, I just like the hands-on activities more! I hope I get to do more exciting things again tomorrow!