Oops.

What's the point of starting a blog if you forget about it? Not sure myself. But I managed to do just that. Luckily my friend Steve has started a blog about books which has group postings, which reawakened me to my own neglected corner of cyberspace.

I've graduated college, now, and am back home in Maine. I've worked part-time this summer at Mr. Paperback, the good ol' bookstore I've worked at for the past five years. I've actually accepted a position at Nonesuch Books in South Portland, Maine, where I'll be the new assisstant manager. If anything, I hope that this new job will be the beginning of a career in books and bookselling. I don't need to be wealthy, and to be honest, I would never be wealthy working in books unless I somehow came to own my own publishing corporation, which seems a bit unlikely. But as long as I can live and support myself and skulk about dusty bookshelves, I think I'll be fine. People seem to think I've wasted my time in college if I'm settling for an assistant manager position at a small bookstore, but I think people are full of hot air and stupid notions. I've always said that I'd work at a bookstore for the rest of my life if I could make a living off of it, and it seems that this is finally something possible with nonesuch. And if anything, I'm staying positive about my degree - I've learned to write well and think critically, as well as learn about literary history and literary analysis. I think it'll be a great help when working around literature.

Who knows - it doesn't have to be permanent, and until I move down to Portland it won't be as lucrative financially as it could be. But it's my first full-time job, it's with a manager I've known for a long time, and it's a busy store. Plus it's independant and not part of a chain or corporate office. I think it's going to be fun.

Until next time. Hopefully this will be updated more frequently in the future.