Every few days, K.Lo adds another doll or stuffed animal to her bed at night. Overcrowding does not appear to be an issue for the employee, and I wonder if eventually, K.Lo will build a mountain on her bed of the entire collection. I can easily see it happening.

I should perhaps mention that once upon a time, in a company far, far away, an employee I knew used to insist on building her own stuffed animal mountain at night, no exclusions... Bizarre, but true. And I had a lot of stuffed animals.

The other day, I ran across this old pamphlet describing my former place of employment. The cover photo of the brochure gave me pause. I looked up at K.Lo, fresh from another trip to the dreaded Twoville Offices, screaming incoherently for some form of assistance. I looked down again at the brochure to see K.Lo smiling up at me, all well-dressed and impish. Except that it wasn't K.Lo, it was The Manager, once upon a Twoville. I have to wonder, can this finding possibly bode well for my career.

A long, long time ago, in a company far, far from here, a young Manager-in-Training diligently, repeatedly, watched a motivational training video called Annie. Her own Manager made her a uniform, and the employee sang, quoted and otherwise devoted much of her workday to hailing this instructional movie.

Fast-forward a couple decades and some change, and this young employee has become The Manager of her own company, with a small girl named K.Lo under her employ. K.Lo is equally, if not more so, diligent in watching this all-important motivational training video called Annie. She wears the uniform that has been passed along to her by the Regional Manager. She sings, she dances, she quotes. The Manager could not be more pleased, entertained, proud.

While I've catalogued some of these snippets overheard in the vicinity of K.Lo's cubicle, here they all are in one place:
*"Come here, Sandy, come here." And, "Good ol' Sandy!"
*"Sandy's his name..." And, "ask fleas."
*"Dumb dog." [Although possibly this line isn't from the movie.]
*"Maybe far away..." [Jumbled lyrics and tune, but definitely recognizable.]
*"To-morrow! I love you! To-morrow! A day away..."
*"We got Annie!"
*"Hard-knock life..." [Also jumbled lyrics and tune, but recognizable.]
*"Think I'm gonna like it here!"
*"Turn the kitchen light off!" [From "Let's Go to the Movies," perfectly on cue.]
*Shrieking just like Lily St. Regis during "Easy Street."
*Pleading "Please!" with very same intonation as Annie when she's climbing the train tracks to escape Rooster. Clearly needing juice is an equally intense situation.
*Somersaults during "Hard-Knock Life"
*Also during "Hard-Knock," disappearing and returning with pillow for the pillow fight.
*And finally, returning to the office from a company excursion today, The Manager said to K.Lo, "Let's go see Daddy." In response, K.Lo murmured, "Daddy Warbucks?"