One of my roles in the CCRA (Canadian Campus Retail Association) the past two years has been organizing the group buy for hurt penguins -- I collect each of about a dozen or store order requests from stores across Canada, then do a single large buy of the skids, ship them to our warehouse space, then unpack and sort them so that everyone gets the best possible mix.
It makes for a really long day in a hot, dirty warehouse, but it's always great fun.
You get to see tons of great titles, experience lots of nostalgia (many of the titles were hot or popular books from the past 3 or 4 years) and do lots of "talk" about books with a group of other similarly-minded book folks.
We finished about 26 or so of the skids today and are back again next week to to the remaining half.
So this week, for both Half-Nekkid Thursday as well as for Da Count, I'm posting a picture of myself as one type of Hurt Penguin and counting yet another benefit I have of working in a fantastic industry.
4 comments:
Way cool! When you do you put out your penguins for sale?
OK... I would so buy these hurt penguins. Saving books... always a noble count. Cheers!
What a great idea. Who cares if a book is a tad battered, as long it's readable. If I may say, you make an excellent penguin in pain. Happy HNT!
gees, i am so late getting over here. i am sorry. but so glad i finally made it, this was both educational and hilarious!
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