So today I had my first meeting for Hopstop.com, along with my final day of work at the afterschool program.

On the way into the city, who do I run into on the platform in Secaucus but Kayla Wiener. Weird huh? Turns out she is interning in the art department of Stuff Magazine. Pretty cool.

Getting into the city isn't going to be a problem, as well as getting from Penn Station to the Helmsley Building. It's about a 20-25 minute walk, down E 34th Street and then down Park Avenue. A nice little feature of this commute is that I'm going to have to walk past the Empire State building everyday, as well as through Grand Central and the Metlife building. Sucks to be me huh? Well, everyday is a lie. Right now, I'm starting off as a part-timer, 3-days a week. Which is sort of nice, because I'll be able to focus on the lsats that are coming up in december as well as continue to make some moolah and get more involved with the start-up. It looks like I need to be on site for the first month or two as I get a handle on the information development side, but once that's done, the work can be done from anywhere.

Me and the bossman had about an hour-long chat about where the website ultimately wants to end up as well as user goals. This project is going to be very, very exciting. Some of the ideas are pretty revolutionary as well as the way things are to be implemented. I know this is dated, by the word nifty comes to mind. It looks like I'll be working tuesday, thursdays, and fridays in november and then start full time in december with a benefits package. But before anything big happens, there's going to be a trial-by-fire. Philadelphia. It's going to be my responsibility to get the city of Brotherly Love up and running. I'll have a shaman to guide me, who's been down the path before but this is going to be on my shoulders. Sounds like some responsiblity....ut oh.

I was pretty psyched coming out of the meeting, with good reason to be. I was out of by noon, and so I hopped back into NJ on a giddy transist ride. Getting back at 1:40, I realized I could put in one final day at the after-school program. I thought that yesterday would be my last day, but I'm glad that it wasn't. I had a blast playing wallball, two-hand touch football, connect 4, and using scratch paper. Remember that stuff? Amazing. I need to get my hands on it. Funny thing is, the kids are going to miss me. I was only there for a month, but it felt really rewarding just to interact with them and teach them some new things. A lot of them are from families with no male role-models in them, so it was nice to find out that what I was doing was making a difference. $ Bill gave me this really big hug, and said he would miss me. I definitely think I have to go and visit before I move out of here, make sure the rugrats are doing ok.