I have not updated in a while. I started to write an update about a terrible, horrible, no good experience I had at the Books A Million at Concord Mills, but I was too agitated to finish it. It may be added at some point in the near future. It made me realize a business I could start though. Well, perhaps not so much of a business as a personal venture I could take to earn some money (those don't ever seem to work out...). My title would be "Consumer Aspect Analyst" and I would go into stores as a secret shopper, but independently so that the stores wouldn't even be looking for me and report to various news agencies with my findings. I see this as a journalistic type of job in which I could be contracted by retailers to help them improve their customer service, to save themselves from my scathing and potentially detrimental reports on their terrible shopping experience. This is the next big thing, and it's alllll mine. I mean, retailers just like everyone else are suffering from the general lack of money in people's pockets, so it would make sense that they would be trying as hard as they possibly could to get people into their stores and for those people to be happy about it, right? I could help. I could make things wonderful. I could rule the universe as well, but no one seems to ever go for that idea, therefore my CAA job seems much more reasonable and slightly less ambitious. 

In other news Mike and I are revolutionizing my dad's business through design. By Mike and I I mean that Mike is doing the grunt work like designing and creating and I'm doing the fluff work like jumping around spouting out ideas and saying "Yes, I like that", and "Oooh, I like that even better". Currently we are revolutionizing the business card, but I am desperate for a website for him because I think that would open the door to more potential customers who don't know anything about florists but could look at how great his stuff is before they plunk down their money for product unseen. I want to learn the art of websitery.

Also, I am studying for the GRE again, because although I did fine the first time (and nailed the essays with a 5.5 out of a possible 6), I believe I can do better and actually enjoy using a workbook to study fun things like basic algebra and vocabulary. Go, me!

Also, also... today I went to a fabulous store in Charlotte called City Art Works and drooled over art by one of my favorite people. Here's a picture since I learned how to put them in the bottom of a post now (Thanks, Daniel!!)