One of my This Week on Martha's Vineyard co-workers, Zach Dionne, also has been blogging about the island experience and I'm sure you will enjoy his perspective on the wonders and the weirdness around us. Check him out here. He's been here three weeks longer than I have and he has two other jobs besides the newspaper, so he's quite immersed in the scene while I still feel like I'm slowly adjusting to it. One of his workplaces is Mediterranean, where I will be dining this evening; the other is The Book Den East, which is a great place for used and out-of-print titles. I went in there one afternoon and emerged 30 minutes later and about $30 poorer. Had I stayed longer, I could easily have destroyed my summer budget. I suspect if I worked there, I would wind up doing the same thing my fellow employees and I used to do at the long-defunct Repeat the Beat in Royal Oak: trade in our paychecks for store credit. (I am happy to report I did manage to get some of my money back, albeit 14 years later; I traded in a large batch of old Repeat the Beat promo CDs at a used-CD store in Kalamazoo and collected nearly $300 for my trip.)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
A different angle on the island
One of my This Week on Martha's Vineyard co-workers, Zach Dionne, also has been blogging about the island experience and I'm sure you will enjoy his perspective on the wonders and the weirdness around us. Check him out here. He's been here three weeks longer than I have and he has two other jobs besides the newspaper, so he's quite immersed in the scene while I still feel like I'm slowly adjusting to it. One of his workplaces is Mediterranean, where I will be dining this evening; the other is The Book Den East, which is a great place for used and out-of-print titles. I went in there one afternoon and emerged 30 minutes later and about $30 poorer. Had I stayed longer, I could easily have destroyed my summer budget. I suspect if I worked there, I would wind up doing the same thing my fellow employees and I used to do at the long-defunct Repeat the Beat in Royal Oak: trade in our paychecks for store credit. (I am happy to report I did manage to get some of my money back, albeit 14 years later; I traded in a large batch of old Repeat the Beat promo CDs at a used-CD store in Kalamazoo and collected nearly $300 for my trip.)
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Thanks for the linkage man! Become a follower maybe, wink wink?
ReplyDeleteHave fun at Med tonight! Make sure you get Gilbert (said like Jill-bear, French style) and enjoy.