A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Thursday, March 8, 2007

I got a phone call today from someone at HarperCollins, about a position there as a sales coordinator. For about twenty minutes after I got off the phone, I sat there thinking, huh??? I didn't remember applying to that company at any time in the recent past, and not in sales, and definitely not through contacts or any online job postings. Then I remembered that a few weeks ago I'd heard about the opening through a classmate at SPI, who passed my resume along to the person in HR. After I sent her... Sign in to see full entry.

I got there at about 7:30--slightly earlier than my classmates, but I was still fine. The apartment's in a kind of nondescript building on 61st Street. The husband works at Sloane Kettering Memorial as an oncologist; the children, 13 and 9, are at Florence Nightingale and Collegiate respectively (two of the most exclusive private schools in Manhattan; the former for girls, the latter for boys). The apartment was smaller than I had expected, but still very nice. The wife used to be an art... Sign in to see full entry.