Backroom

It looks like I'll be spending my remaining time at Target doing the job that I did for my first three years there, and that I worked so hard to get away from :P

My planogram team is now officially disbanded. Kinda sad. I really enjoyed and took pride in being a member of that team. We did some hard work, but we always did good work. We had a pretty laid-back work environment with a supervisor who allowed us to be us as long as we got the job done. It was the type of work that could be frustrating and stressful, but at the end of the day, it was always nice to take a step back and say, "I did that. Yay me." ^__^ As an added bonus, my fellow team members are pretty good friends, even outside of work. And now it's done and I will never ever have to set another planogram.

However...

While my friends all get to go work together for the next couple of months on the flow team, I am stuck in the backroom for the duration of the holidays. It's only fitting, I suppose, that I'm back where I started, but I really can't stand doing it any more. But apparently I'm just too darn good at it. Oh well.

In other news, Ohio State is going to the Rose Bowl. I can't believe they haven't been since the famous Arizona State game in 1997. That's a crazy long time ago.

I managed to throw my sleep schedule way out of wack again. I tried to stay up today, but didn't even come close to making it. I almost fell asleep while sitting on my bed with a bowl of soup while reading X-Factor. That could have been a messy disaster. I may try to grab a couple hours tonight, but I'll have to see how much I manage to get done with some other projects.

I'm finally catching up with my comic book reading. Allow me to nerd-out for a moment and mention the utter brilliance that was Matt Fraction's year-long Iron Man story that just wrapped up, entitled "World's Most Wanted." It was (I say redundantly) utterly brilliant. Tony's journey across the world and across the whole history of the Iron Man saga was awe-inspiring. To see this man's last-ditch heroic effort to save not only his own skin, but the skins of pretty much every super hero in the world was, at times, painful, but I've never felt a greater sense of respect for Mr. Stark. I won't say where it all leads (I don't know where it all leads), but Tony Stark and the whole Iron Man idea will never be the same. The supporting cast was also astounding, especially Pepper Potts, who is now officially awesome. And Norman Osborn's reign of tyranny is almost up. I can feel it. So, again, thank you Matt Fraction for the outstanding story-telling. I can't wait to see what's next.