A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Thursday, August 17, 2006

The post is about, quite literally, windows. There are 5 windows in our apartment: two in my bedroom, one in my roommate's and two in the living room (there are no windows in the kitchen, dining area, and bathroom). The only window with screens on it is one of the ones in my room. The other window had a window AC, as does the window in my roommate's room. I get home around 8 pm; I'm usually in bed by around 10 or 11. Because my roommate is in med school, he doesn't get back to the apartment... Sign in to see full entry.

I had a job interview yesterday at Parachute Publishing. I got the interview through a contact at Barnes and Noble, who passed my resume along to this woman who's hiring at Parachute. Parachute is a small children's company that works a little differently from other publishing houses. Parachute comes up with ideas for children's and teen books, hires authors and illustrators, and then sells the books to major publishing houses such as Scholastic, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster. Some of... Sign in to see full entry.