Summer in NYC

Well it certainly has been awhile since I posted something that wasn't an excerpt from a book I was reading! I do like to share what I am reading (this week its The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman because I really liked The Golden Compass in my YAL class this semester) but I suppose a little somethin' somethin' wouldn't entirely be awful. I will cut to the chase.

I am spending the summer in New York City.

I somehow managed to snag an unbelievable internship with Simon and Schuster this summer! I didn't think it was possible, but like I told Sara...I was going big or going home. After one disastrous phone call with Harper Collins (in which they hung up on me almost immediately after I asked if a phone interview was possible), I thought I was pretty much set with Northwestern University Press in their acquisitions department. But then alas! S&S called, and here we are.

I leave at the end of the month and will be there through the first week of August. (!!!)

Ana was right, 2009 was bound to be better than 2008. And now almost six months into it...I think she's right!

When we listened to the wind together, we understood exactly what it was saying. When we sat close in the dark, we could feel each other's broken hearts beating.[AH]