Where Is She Now?

Well, not on the road! What made the Atomic Tour especially awesome is that we got to fit in such a crazy, indulgent trip riiiiight before our worldly responsibilities cleared their throats and tapped us on the shoulder. In Dave’s case, that means returning to Toronto next Tuesday until September 15 to man Glarkware operations while my sister Leah (who happens to be the customer service manager at the company) is on maternity leave with her first baby (and my first niece!) (and speaking of Glarkware, are you aware of the gigantic sale that’s currently underway?); in mine, it means starting my new job. Those who were following the Atomic Tour via the podcasts know that, the week before last, my visa application was approved (in a mere week!), so we shortened our trip a little and headed back, so that we could leave the U.S. as visitors, and then return with my paperwork and execute my visa. We did so last night, and today I officially started in my new position as Chief Editor at Entertonement.com.

In a nutshell, Entertonement is the YouTube of audio — which means unlimited opportunity for you fine people to explore the clips others have uploaded, and to join and share your own! Right now, as I ease in to full-time employment again, I’ll mainly be working on the site’s blog and working on corporate communications and such. Soon there will also be forums, and when there are, I will be moderating those as well.

This is pretty much the first productive work I’ve done in nearly four months, and when I was first done at NBC, I did worry that I would have gotten so used to relaxing all the time that it would be a really painful shock when my sabbatical ended. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened, for two reasons:

1. The office out of which I’d be working was, when I accepted the job, located in Sausalito, and it was a condition of the job that I would move there. But after I took the job and cooled my heels while the visa application was prepared, things at the company changed: all operations would now be done out of Seattle, and the new CEO was okay with me working remotely from New York. Which is why I’m now both working and sitting in my favourite armchair in my pyjamas at 3:14 PM on a Wednesday, much as I did every other day when I didn’t have a job.
2. Dave and I really packed a tremendous amount of fun into our shared goof-off time. We went to Broadway plays. We had visits from my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, Bstewart, and Kim and Jim. We saw dumb movies in the middle of the day. We went to Hawaii and Los Angeles for two and a half weeks, and to Minneapolis, and of course on the Atomic Tour. Meetings about the job even brought me to the Bay Area (where I’d only been once) and Seattle (where I’d never been). We were so, so lucky to get all this time and to be able to fill it with so much awesome that I feel it’s time I started paying back the universe by being useful to the economy again in my small way.

So come check out the site! Tell your friends! I will do my part and break a leg.