Week 8

I am still desk bouncing because I don't have a desk. There really isn't room for another one on the first floor, where I am needed, so I don't know what they are going to do.

This week's desk: Aussie Director was out for the week, so I got his really nice office with floor to ceiling windows. It will be hard to go back to desk bouncing next week. (I have decided to use descriptive code names for the people I work for so I don't have to explain who they are each time).

This week I worked on:

• Delivering a little mail.
• Rerouting most of the mail.
• Throwing away ads that nobody wants and should have been sent to their home address anyway.
• Interviewing a very friendly writer and writing his bio.
• Nagging writers who refuse to respond to my e-mails.
• Setting up meetings.
• Practicing being an HR Assistant and going to their meetings.
• Writing an article for a study for Mormon.org
• Writing articles for undecided publication sources.
• Learning how to process receipts.
• Buying lunch for meetings that Actually-knows-everything Supervisor called the "War Rooms Meeting," because some people attend so many meetings that they don't have time to get lunch. Based on the name, I'm glad I didn't have to attend that meeting.
• Add myself to an e-mail list that I realized I can control and yet am not on...
• Give people directions, usually to the bathroom that for some reason is behind two locked doors.
• Drug Bust...no, really. The security guards needed someone to check if anyone else was in the women's restroom and then they wanted to know if the other exit was locked or if there were any syringes in the trash. I don't know if they found anything or not because I was leaving. I probably would have heard if they had, though. Kind of crazy, but it makes for a funny story: "Sister Missionary assists with Drug Bust at Church Headquarters." Ha.

This week I went visiting teaching with Mom so that I could see a litter of brand new Old English Bulldog puppies. They were so adorable. They actually looked more like small guinea pigs because they're so small and round. They had the softest peach fuzz, but they already had ripples in it where they will have wrinkles around their pink little noses. They didn't even have their eyes open yet. They were so cute, but dogs and college apartments don't really get along...

I also passed a deer on my way to institute that had only one antler. I named him Max after the Grinch's dog.

I also talked to a couple of cute little girls, 7 and 5, who had come to the Church Office Building to have lunch with their daddy. They came up and asked where I and my friend were from because their daddy said if they were going to be missionaries someday they would have to practice talking to people. They were super cute.

The last thing I saw as I was leaving today was an elderly couple on motorized tricycles. They were like the sports car version of the motorized carts you see at the grocery store. It made me grin. I think that couple had the right idea. Now they just need the spinners on the wheels and a boom box. I would totally ride around town on one of those, blasting my music at all the young folks and living up my old age.

P.S. I love you all.