Well, I survived my first week of classes and work. Let's start with work.

Can of Worms is everything I pictured it to me. A small room situated in a yard (basically, a wide alley amongst other small shops) with about 6 desks and 7 people in the office. It's brilliant. I haven't done a lot my first week. I spent Tuesday familiarizing myself with some of the books by reading their AIs (Advance Information Sheets). Specifically, one book, The Letter From Death. It is originally American and now it's being released in the UK. We are making a book launch, hopefully. The next day, I researched humanists in Britain to hopefully write a review for the book because it was so popular among humanists in the US. I also scoured the news for any possible connections to any of the books we need to do publicity for on Twitter and Facebook as well as the professional web site. Next week, I get to start actually writing stuff and I'm so excited.

Actually, the best part of my week at work was when Josie, the literary agent in the office, gave me some manuscripts to read through. It was so exciting to be reading someone's work of art that no one else has read (professionally) and basically deciding if it lives or dies. I read a few that I didn't like but one really caught my attention. I just really enjoyed doing that-that's what I want to do with my life! I'm going to try to find out more about it and see what opportunities I might have next summer.

Class today was a lot of fun. This morning I had Culture by Design with Jay (seriously the coolest professor). It's all about "looking at stuff closely". We basically just analyze things in society and culture and talk about it. We went to Camden Market (the sickest shopping in London EMILY) to just look around and just kind of "notice" stuff. It was awesome. Seriously awesome.

After Camden, I practically ran to Sainsbury's (grocery store) to get food for tonight before my my next class at 2.

Then I had Communication Diversity in Pop Culture with Dr. Chapman. It was pretty interesting I suppose. We discussed Jewish culture in Britain. We also discussed stereotypes and offending people. We took a trip to the Jewish Museum which wasn't as cool as I thought it would be. The one in D.C. was a lot better. I rather like listening to Holocaust survivors the most because you feel a sort of connection with the person. But anyway....

Tonight, Mackie and I made beef stir-fry for dinner. It was delicious, I must say. Now, we are trying to book the Liverpool trip and Paris. Going to get ice cream!

-APC