Some things that I've learned this week

• having chocolate fondue at Ethel's Chocolate Lounge is a very good way to get to know your staff
• the home-made marshmallows are really, really good, but anything dipped in warm chocolate is worth eating
• too many women believe that working with all women is a recipe for an environment of gossip and negativity, which seems both an excuse and a slander against one's own tribe; not true - I went to an all-girls high school and have been in retail for a long time, and the only places that are full of gossip and negativity are full of people of either gender who are gossips and negative
• knitting socks is an endurance test