Seattle, WA
Well, it’s official. I am living and working in Seattle. You know how I know? Because I had to brave the horrid commute to work, through some horrendous traffic. People always said that Seattle was ranked high on the bad traffic scale, but I always brushed it off as an exaggeration. In all my time here I have only had to take back roads to get to work and usually not during the usual rush hour times.
But not anymore. Living in Ballard and having to go south of Boeing field this morning was not a fun drive. It took over an hour and there were two accidents in my way. One in Ballard where a guy was hit by a car and then dragged. Another on I-5 of course. And now that I sit in my sister’s Capitol Hill apartment because I still don’t have a phone line or internet connection at my place, I can see another accident happening on I-5. I guess I’ll be putting off that commute back to Ballard for now.
I start my training for the new job tomorrow. Today was just orientation and if you want details you have to talk to me yourself, but it’s not very interesting. I’m excited to learn the new computer system though and it looks like I might be on a former co-workers team, unless they decide to switch it. Hopefully not.
I know this is a terribly boring and anti-climactic blog entry considering the length of time you had to wait for me to finally blog, but I’m exhausted. I’ve been packing, moving, painting, packing, moving, cleaning, unpacking, etc. for the last month and I’m tired.
I’m sorry to hear about the commute. I wonder how you would get to the south end from there…
What did you think of “White Teeth”? I loved that book. I even got Zadie Smith to autograph my copy. I couldn’t think of anything clever to say when I got to meet her, but she noticed I had a copy of “Don Quixote” with me (I got to the reading an hour early to get a good seat, so I needed something to read,) and she wrote a list of her top five books she hasn’t read yet on the front page of my book (including “DQ”). I thought “The Autograph Man” was good too…don’t listen to the critics.
Hope everything is going well out in Ballard.
No excusses!! You need to be more into your blogg young lady…I shall now have to give you a spankin’! (Please let me give you a spankin’)
Max, you meet all the cool peeps! Zadie Smith, Donna Tartt (didn’t you?) I met David Sedaris, and literary legend Bill Idol. That’s good, no?
Katie, I don’t envy your commute. Some poll came out recently that said Portland’s traffic is worse, but that’s a dirty rotten lie. Seattle traffic sucks.
Wasn’t Seattle the first place with a documented case of road rage?
You should try taking 99 down. Although there is some construction right now that is a pain in the butt, it will be done in the relative future…
Oh crap, I’m going to sound like an idiot, but who is Donna Tartt? She sounds like a tart…t. Maybe not. I’m up to 94 holds at the Seattle Public Library; this is what happens when you get lots of book recommendations. Maybe it’s going to be 95…
Did I say Max? I meant Mark. Max did meet Donna Tartt, though (The Secret History).
Do you still want to look at bedding? Tonight would be good. Piet has class on T and TH until 8:30.
Uh yeah, I met Donna Tartt, and Jeff K fell in lust with her. I only fell in lust with her writings.