Tired Tired Scribe

Long long day today, but this is the ''eve'' of the book signing and it's not unusual for me to pull a 12 hour day the day before. 9-3 I spent working in the smaller store, and then from 4ish on I worked at the main store (off clock) setting up until round about 7:30ish. The signing sight in the store is all the way in the back, next to customer service. There are two reasons for that, the first being that you look down the length of the store as you walk in through the front doors straight back to customer service, so it's a bull's eye for customer service, and the second reason is that it's right beside the forth register where I can help all the lovely fans coming in to buy the books. However the space was full of product (imagine that) which I needed to move to other locations in the store which were also full of product (hard to believe I know) so I spent a good 40 minutes just juggling the stuff around before actually getting to the point where I had a blank canvas to work from. Then, I realised I didn't have the table I was going to use as his writing surface *d'oh* and also didn't have the poster that he was going to bring *double d'oh* so that limited me a bit. I did get the wall done, lovely lanterns up and lion heads too and one sword and two daggers all displayed nicely among the books and everyone really like the way it looked.

But it was incomplete, and just when I had decided that I wasn't going to be able to do any more, Mom and Dad called and said they were bringing the table up *YAY*. And when they got there, Mom decided to stay and help me with the table lay out till we were both satisfied that it looked really cool. That's when I finally left around 7:30ish. Now tomorrow I have to be up and dressed and relatively sane by 11:00AM to be at the store no later than 11:15 AM to do all the last little bits of things and wait for Bryan and his family to show up. Signings from 12-4 pm tomorrow and I'll be there probably from 11-5 with all the set up and breaking down. Doesn't sound like a long day but it'll feel like one, but it'll be a lot of fun too.