Today the Big Boss came in to work. Pretty exciting right? I ran a CD over to another label during the late afternoon, worked on some lists of songs our producers/songwriters have done, sent out a hundred million faxes, and waited for the Big Boss.
Finally, she came.
She was so sweet! She wasn't there 1 minute before she had a list of things for me to do, fax this, type up this, send this, and "when you're done with that, can you please call around and see if I can get a back to my phone? My dog chewed it." Let.me.just.say.EWE. I couldn't help but think about the fresh drool that was still on this thing, no store even had a back in stock anyway. Then Evan the A&R came in. Thats always exciting. The Big Boss was in a meeting and he came over and talked to Vin and me for a little while. Then he went about his work and one of our producers came in to sign some contracts. This is one of the few producers I'd heard about and admired before I started working here, so it was pretty cool to meet him. Apparently him and Evan have beef, I didn't know this until much later in the night but it was clear from the awkward silence.
Around 6:30 I had to bring another something to another label and when I came back, it was mass chaos between the producer, Evan, and the Big Boss. I didn't leave until after 9 and didn't get home until almost 10.
And oh, of course it couldn't be that easy so here's a story for you (the kind where you can have a laugh and be happy things like this don't happen to you). I stopped at Duane Reade for some soup because I was starving and freezing...what better thing could you eat? So, I go straight to the floor with the kitchen on it instead of going up to my room first. I heat up my soup but its so hot that I can't carry it. I burnt my hands at least 3 times before I decided to take my jacket off and put it around the soup to carry it. Then it spilled on my arms. Then I held it close to my stomach and it burnt that too! I finally got to my room and I leaned it up against the wall while I carefully reached for my key in my pocket. In doing so, the steam from the soup was coming up and into my face. Needless to say, I'm sweating by now. I get in my room and it is like a sauna in here, I didn't think I had left the heat on but even if I did, I know it couldn't have been up that high. I look at my thermostat and someone came in here and turned my heat up to 82 degrees!! Why would you EVER want a room to be that hot, particularly one that isn't yours??
Then I notice someone had come in here and set up bug/mouse traps. You know the kind...the sticky pad that they get caught in and then you have to dispose of it, usually while the bug/mouse is still alive. Disgusting. I am NOT dealing with that when some critter gets stuck in there, so I threw them out, but they got stuck to the stick I was using to move them, then I got stuck to the stick. Between the high temperatures and getting caught in a bug/mouse trap, I wasn't even in the mood for my soup anymore.
The Big Boss won't be back again for another week or two, I think today was just a taste of how crazy it can get when she's in the office.
