The thing about new jobs is this: for the first couple of weeks you sort of just breeze by. You don’t know exactly what you’re doing or when it should be done so you spend a lot of time just hanging out. The longer you’re there, of course, the more you learn the rules of [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 27, 2009
Bump on a Log
Now that I’ve failed my mission to post daily I’m think I’ll ease up a bit. Maybe posting on the weekends is just one of those things that will never happen. That said, it’s still a week day and I have something to write.
Ever since I moved here I’ve been completely unmotivated to do anything. [...]
January 26, 2009
Monday Mourning
Reasons I feel in love with Seattle over the weekend:
1. The fresh market at Pike’s Place
2. The delicious restaurants we ate at, including the most delicious macaroni and cheese I have ever had at Beecher’s, which I am so craving right now
3. The friends we have there
4. It snowed!
5. The Mountain Hardware store
6. Affordable housing
7. [...]
January 25, 2009
Failed
I totally forgot to write yesterday. Okay, that’s not true. I actually just put it off and then forgot. But look at what my day was filled with: 4 independent book stores in one block and this:
January 23, 2009
The Emerald State
I’m in Seattle. And it’s not raining! It is chilly though, and I’m loving it.
January 23, 2009
Things I Saw Coming in to Work at 2:00 a.m.
1. A group outside of a bar – I left my apartment before last call. These guys hadn’t even finished their yesterday when I was starting my today.
2. An opossum out on a morning stroll.
3. Numerous cars turning before I passed, even though there was no one behind me. People are impatient at 1:30 in [...]
January 22, 2009
Random
As I mentioned before, I have some very eclectic music on my ipod. Some of it, I’m not sure where it came from or why I have it. Some of it’s so good I don’t care where I got, just that it finally showed up in rotation. Because there’s so much random music I sometimes [...]
January 21, 2009
Uncomfortable
My coworkers are talking about Obama. Let me give it to you in bullet points:
he would never wear red, white and blue together, much less an American flag pin
Michelle wore a dress by Cuban born designer (who moved to the states 40 effing years ago, by the way), she may as well have just worn [...]
January 20, 2009
Hopeful
Did you watch it? I sat in front of my computer at work streaming live through CNN to watch the Inauguration and I loved every minute of it. Of course I wish I was there, but it was great to see it all instead of straining to hear over the crowd, but this was still [...]
January 19, 2009
Be the Change
Loving this, even though Sean Combs is annoying as hell and Ashton Kutcher goes a little over the top on his acting. But still.
Isn’t that what’s been so great about the election of Obama: the change. People are excpecting some serious change without really knowing what they want and how it’s going to happen. Wes [...]
