Tom & Alissa

Hello, internets.

It’s suddenly become very busy around here; Tom’s shoot started today (he was up by 4:30am and may be home by 9pm) and runs almost until Christmas, and my list of projects and deadlines is growing.

I’d been avoiding pitching articles for a while this summer, and considered leaving off until the New Year, but that’s basically been thrown out the window (be careful when you ask the Almighty for guidance) and I’m happily and slightly frightened-ly staring at my list of deadlines. Since I hope and plan to be in grad school in January, and to continue in grad school for roughly a decade, I guess my nice restful post-college era is coming to an end. It’s been fun, but we all know that I prefer to live dangerously.

I went to Barnes & Noble on my lunch break and splurged on the recent issues of two magazines I’m ashamed to have not read previously - Poets & Writers and Blueprint (which I resisted because of the Martha Stewart connection but opened and loved immediately). They’ve gone on my wishlist and I’m awfully glad to have them in my tote bag.

I’m seeing some friends from college on Thursday night - people with whom I spent a lot of time during various high-stress times (student orientation, senior capstone . . .). I’m excited about that. I never really meant to ditch RPI entirely; it’s just that nobody I knew from the class of ‘05 moved to NYC with me. Since then, that’s changed, and I’m glad.

A lot of my internet poking-around activity in the last year has involved trying to hunt up a good website for logging my books. Chainreading wasn’t interactive enough, LibraryThing didn’t have the features I wanted, and I had trouble finding anything that worked exactly as I wanted. But I finally took a look at Goodreads recently, and I’m hooked. It’s excellent. Here’s my page - add me, if you have an account!