Tom & Alissa

We had an excellent weekend with my grandparents on the Jersey shore. My mom drove in for a day, too. We ate great seafood, toasted in the sun, frolicked in the ocean, and played mini-golf. We went to a waterpark and enjoyed having cable television for a couple days. And we were sad to come home.

Not too sad, because yesterday was my first day in the IAM office, and if I might say, a vastly superior working experience to any office I’ve ever worked in, and a significant improvement on the two offices I’ve worked in since moving to New York. It’s refreshing to actually be trusted to be competent in doing the job you were hired to do. Ahem.

In other exciting news, The Curator generated some good buzz on the internet and we had well over 3,000 hits over the weekend - impressive, since we’re relying entirely on word-of-mouth advertising for now. Some interesting opportunities floated our way as well. And now that the first edition is out, I’m brainstorming where we’ll go from here.

Tonight I have my first “A History of Media Theory” class, with a professor who is immensely popular in my department and is rumored to be tough, but fascinating. The books range from McLuhan to Turkle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to enjoy it and be challenged. My other class is on Mondays, so it doesn’t begin until next week.

Also, our second anniversary is this Friday. Tom has some supersecret plans and has only asked me to leave work at noon (which, happily, I can do). Oooh, intrigue.