2 posts tagged “marketing”
My daughter now has a new favourite song. Gee, thanks, Honda!
(frightening to know that I had similar taste in music when I wasn't much older than she, lol)
I have always been a book fiend. Always. All of my birthday money, all of my allowance, was invariably spent on books. Prior to my current position with EBSQ, working at Waldenbooks back in the 90's was my dream job. Dangerous to the pocketbook, to be sure, but an awesome opportunity. In the pre-Amazon days, I could special order anything my heart desired. (yup, I told you it was dangerous!)
After I moved back to Pittsburgh from my brief stint in WA State, a shiny new Barnes & Noble opened up in Squirrel Hill, making it just walking distance from my apartment. And again, all the spare cash went to books. I consumed poetry books and literature like they were going out of style. Even after I caught the Amazon bug, I still bought most of my books in actual bookstores, simply out of love for being in that space, feeling the energy hum of all of those books simply waiting to be picked up and consumed.
Then, my daughter was born. The books changed to tomes about parenting, breastfeeding, and the like. My book purchases were few and far between, because who the heck has the leisure to read with a newborn? Books are clunky when managing a nursling. I did still manage to read a novel or two in the tub, though. And it was around this time I also discovered a world of new, and often serial fiction, posted in people's blogs. I could read again to my heart's content since it's so much easier to NAK (nurse at the keyboard). Three years later, and I still do the bulk of my fiction reading online. But non-fiction? Oh, that's another story.
I look at the books I've bought in the past year and a half. So radically different than what I bought a decade ago! Never in a million years did I think I'd ever pick up, let alone enjoy a book like, "The Art of Project Management" by Scott Berkun, or anxiously await the arrival of the newly published, "Citizen Marketers" by Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell. My shelf is filled with books on marketing, programming, blogging, social community building while my rather expansive collection of novels, poems, art history, film studies, French grammar, playbooks,and classics grow dusty.
When the heck did I become an adult?
