Yo, ho and hello!
Smart choice, to start out slow! It's often tempting (and I've done it, more than once!) to get into a bunch of games because you have a slow period in your life with extra free time, and there's a bunch of interesting games advertising for players...
And then two or three weeks later, life gets busy and suddenly you find yourself overcommitted, flailing to try and keep up with all the games. I've learned the hard way to add a game...see how you do with it...maybe add another...give it a couple of weeks to see how you're handling both of them...then maybe a third...etc. Some people can juggle more games than I can...right now, I'm only in one that's really active and I'm flailing a little bit to keep up with it (lucky for me that all of the other games I'd joined earlier this year have gone inactive because of GM commitments to RL circumstances...or I would REALLY be hurting to try and keep up!)
But it sounds like you're off to a good start, hopefully the RTJ is answered promptly and it's a game that you end up enjoying!