Everyday, my routine's the same. I wake up at 6:30 a.m. and I literally roll out of my bed to reach the floor. I take my vitamins that are sitting on my desk, which I have already pulled out the night before. I head to the bathroom to, well, go to the bathroom and brush my teeth. I then go back to my room, apply my make-up which takes about 20 minutes. After, I go back to the bathroom and blow-dry my hair from it being wet from the night before. It's as if I showered that morning with it still being wet (this makes it easier to style). I then style it depending on the weather or outfit. Options: straight or curly. I go back to my room once more, put on my outfit, which was again, picked out the night before, and put on my jewelry, adding a spray of perfume. I make sure that my bag is packed with all the essentials for the day's travels and office (like my lunch) and I'm out the door by 7:30 a.m.
My second routine is when I get to Harriman train station. My mom drops me off around 7:40 a.m. and I wait by the tracks until 7:57 a.m. I get on the train, and sit in a seat that is empty on the left side (don't know why the left, just always do) and I pull out my book Gone Girl. I ready about two chapters and then my eyes start to get sleepy and I can barely make-out the words anymore. By then, someone has sat next to me because we arrive at Ramsey Route 17 station, just before we go to Secaucus. I usually end up putting the book away because I now I won't remember what I read if I am falling asleep. Most of us get up right when we can feel the train slowing down to the nearby station. We crowd around the doors until they open. I then rush to the 8:52 a.m. train to NY Penn. If I don't make that one, there's one at 8:56 a.m. again. I have only had to do the twice so far.
Once I arrive in NYC, I walk out of the doors on 33rd and 8th Street. This brings me the closest to the direction of the office. I then walk all the way down 8th until 10th and make the left towards 32nd street. There is a bridge over the avenue between 10th and 11th on 33rd, therefore, my only option is to walk down the streets before hitting 11th Avenue. During my walk me and everyone else around me is listening to our ear buds with our music of choice on our phones (mines always Pandora Radio). This makes the walk go by faster (us fast New Yorker's). When I finally get to 28th Street, I walk down 11th Avenue. This Avenue always has construction going on, including the very stereotypical construction workers to follow. I will refer to him as "Jerry". Jerry always is working the days I walk down the block and always seems to have something to say. Whether it's, "hey, how's it going?" Or, "hello ma'am." He always watches me walk past him and at this point of my travels, I consider him someone I now expect on my walk to the office. Jerry is just always there. During my morning commute walk and again on my afternoon commute walking back.
When I reach the end of 11th, I can see my office, and just have to cross the street. After I walk across, that is when I usually start my blog posts with what happened once I get off the elevator.
This morning was a bit different. After explaining how my mornings have been so far, this morning will be understood why.
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| Filming of a movie or TV show? |
This is a huge mystery to me. I tried to do some research with the info I know of just from observing these trailers as I walked by, not trying to stare so obviously. I am very curious as to what these trailers are hiding (people wise) and who exactly "Carrie" is. One trailer's door was labeled that and the other, a boy's name, which I draw a blank to. This was on my mind all day, considering they were parked there all day long. The same guard was their in the morning as in the afternoon, when I left the office. It was of high security and very discrete. I am going to try and snoop out some more info if I see these trailers again on Thursday.
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Today's office environment was rather busy. I was all over the place in terms of tasks and the multiple projects I started and yet haven't finished.
This morning, there was no to-do list waiting for me from "C". This was a little bit of a shock, but I knew "C" had big plans for me from the conversation we had last Thursday. She actually didn't have me working on what I expected to do, but continue a project I started a couple of weeks ago. This Betsey Johnson jewelry fiasco. Yes, fiasco because it is just such a mess and a process to organize all of it, but it needs to be done.
Basically, to recap this project that was started one of my first days interning, is that there are multiple pieces of jewelry that are from different seasons, all mixed together in these drawers located in the showroom area.
I, being the organizer I am, have to organize each season in each drawer. Now, you would think this would be easy to do, but no. Not each bag of jewelry has an FAC number ( the office's skew number bar codes). I then have to look each item up in the look books, which are in three separate thick binders, separated by season. This takes a while to look for each item, if it is even in the look book. I ended up with a bag full of inventory not located in the brand's look book (not our faults). This made this process hard to accomplish. The other items though that I could look up, I bagged them into seasons: 2013 Spring, 2013 Fall, 2014 Spring, and 2014 Fall. Four seasons, in four drawers. I can do that! It took be about three hours to get this somewhat organized. I then had to write down each bar code for 2013 Spring and 2013 Fall due to it not being valid anymore in our showroom. These items will be sent back to Betsey Johnson.
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| Fall 2014 BJ Look Book |
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| Fall 2014 Inventory |
After finishing up the Betsey jewelry, it was already 1 p.m. "C" had wanted me to finish that before moving on to something else. She had a quick pull that needed to be done for Lucky Magazine. They were in need of Hue socks/tights for hiking and activities outside for a photo shoot next week. "C" was busy and asked me to take a photo of what I pulled, send it to her phone, and then she would send it to Lucky Magazine to see if it was what they were looking for. She printed the e-mail of the descriptions and colors they were in need of. I pulled the assorted socks/tights and laid them out according to the order of colors they wanted:
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| Hue's pull for Lucky Magazine |
This was how most photos look before we send out the inventory to the publications. "C" always wants to make sure they know what is being sent to them ahead of time.
I thought I would sneak in a photo of the showroom to show how it is set up. People in the women's division were taking photos today of some inventory and outfits for publications to see what we have in the show room and what they can pair it with. That is why you see a step latter.
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| Showroom fun |
After the pull, I was than sent to the Hue storage unit for another day's work of organizing that hot box of a mess too. Today was a common thread of cleaning and organizing. Sometimes it just has to be done.
Another intern and I headed to the storage unit to organize the Hue's inventory, which had boxes on boxes blocking product we needed to fill the showroom with. We ended up having to pull out majority of the boxes just to walk into the storage unit and see what else needed to be dealt with.
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| Craziness of a mess |
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| Boxes on boxes |
After being in the unit for almost two hours, it was already 4 p.m. Both the other intern and I felt that we did a lot of switching around, changing boxes to new ones, and labeling what's in each one, would really help us moving forward. We were actually told that we will be moving Hue's inventory to a closer unit to the office which will help a lot considering I make daily trips to the unit and having it closer would be great.
I guess you could say I had fun in the storage unit being surrounded by clothes:
By the time I left the office, yes the trailers were STILL sitting outside, I was flustered with all sorts of thoughts. I felt that I didn't accomplish as much today as I do other days, but it was OK because I know I made marks in other areas, such as the jewelry.
Hopefully there's more for me to work on during the day on Thursday.
Just when I thought today was becoming quiet, I get to Secaucus Junction and there was a problem with the trains going on the Bergen Line, which goes through NJ to NY, and they were all coming through track F. This confused anyone who had a train coming between the times of 6 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Mine was at 6:21 p.m. and I was so confused when one showed up at 6:20 p.m. I had asked a couple of people if it was the one to Harriman and nobody knew.
I usually never really confront anyone while traveling. If you have ever traveled to NYC, most people keep to themselves or listen to their music and do not want to be bothered.
This one guy though seemed nice and I asked him if he knew about the Harriman train. I have seen him before on the same train and figured he might know. He was nice enough to ask a conductor and get an answer that it was the next one coming. We both got on the train and sat fairly close to each other. Again, I took out my book and read about two and a half chapters, until it was my stop. As I got up to get ready, I leaned over to him across the way and thanked him again for asking a conductor about the train. All he did was pass me a crossed out, dirty business card. You could say I was a little confused that he didn't say anything. I walked off the train puzzled. I got off and looked at the card and on the back, it said his name and phone number.... Go figure.
Oh, the people who travel with you may surprise you one day, just like that.
Oh, the people who travel with you may surprise you one day, just like that.
Anyways, gotta love NYC!
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Stay tuned for Thursday's intern day post!
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