Outside our small safe place flies Mystery... A snake beneath the forest floor, a whisper: Melusine

Say what you will about working retail during the holidays, it sucks far worse to work retail in January. No traffic. Only a handful of sales. Then comes inventory. Hate it.

We have had freezing rain and everything was covered in sheets of ice. Yesterday we had several inches of snow to cover that ice. I fell only once so far and that was on my bum. No serious injuries (knock on wood).

My assistant manager quit on me because for some reason he couldn't take the laborous job of organizing books. It's an easy job yet it drove him nuts. Now everyone's miserable picking up the slack.

My landlady is crazy. She had no salt to put on the ice and I have had to literally ice skate out of my house. Finally she sets out some salt -- TABLE SALT of all things!!!! -- but at least it's something.

More to come later. I am very busy! And cold.
XXX,
~V