I haven’t been getting my snack on for a while, actually. First of all, there was the exploding rent on my East Village apartment to deal with, and subsequent Craigslist-inspired expeditions to Brooklyn, and after that, some necessary career moves. Hopefully now this is sorted since it appears I’m staying in the East Village (for at least one more year) and I’ve also landed a new job. I’ll be leaving book marketing to produce web sites on the agency side for a while. I’m pretty excited to see how this goes.

So farewell midtown tourist clots, new book smell, champagne toasts, sleek, efficient elevator service, and “it’s all in the read.” Maybe I’ll soon stop analyzing front-of-store placement when I go to bookstores to chill out, though I dunno, the book pimp mentality is mighty hard to shake.