Author Archives: JJD
Vacation!
Destination: South Korea and Japan. The fun begins in T minus 5 hours. Not only do I have approximately 17 different outfits in here;I also have a full kit for climbing Mt Fuji. I bear my testimony that packing cubes are true.In the name of REI, amen. Boba Fett!Traveling the universe in a film […]
Six-week-old Seattlite
Six weeks, folks. I realized this morning that it has been six weeks since I got to Seattle. When I thought about the things I’ve learned and done since then, the number “six” seemed both too long and too short, and I wondered, “Am I developing properly? Am I ahead of the curve, or developmentally […]
Office sleep-over!
If you had asked me yesterday afternoon what I would be blogging about today, I would have said something about my first foray into REI’s flagship store and dinner with a friend from law school at TanakaSan. And while I promise to go back and write about REI some other time (because AWESOME), right now […]
Oh, the perils of being a woman in love!
Suppose you’re a beautiful young woman. You meet the man of your dreams and fall in love. He loves you, too, and life’s a fairy tale. Unfortunately, if you’re the heroine of a fairy tale and you fall in love at the beginning of the tale, then you’re in for a rough spell. Sooner or […]
Hiking Serene Lake and Bridal Veil Falls
My plan to make my friends’ friends my friends, and then mine them for more friends, seems to be working! Vanessa (think Chicago, Vietnam and Rennes) introduced me to Ruth, a friend of hers who recently moved to Seattle from Germany to start a new job at the Jungle, and then Ruth invited me to […]
Don’t Rain on My Parade
Memorial Day weekend! The unofficial start to summer! Time for beach and sun and humidity! Oh wait. I live in Seattle now, where it’s in the low sixties and rainy. I’ve been warned/assured by exactly everyone I’ve met that summer starts on July 4. But still — summer or no summer, it’s a holiday weekend […]
Lunch at the Armory
I’ve been in Seattle for two whole weeks and I’ve done basically nothing other than work and unpack and join a Crossfit gym. So this afternoon, when the weather surprised everyone with warm sunny skies, I decided to go exploring. My apartment is only a couple of blocks from the Seattle Center, a 74-acre complex […]
Two weeks down
I’ve been at the Jungle for two weeks now — imagine that! I’m still at the very bottom of my new-hire learning curve; every day I come away feeling like the number of things I don’t know is greater than it was the day before. But I’m not worried. Instead I focus on little things, […]
Camping no more
So my last post from almost TWO WEEKS AGO left you with a pretty bleak picture: Yours truly coming home from a crazy new job to an empty apartment, where I had nothing but a sleeping bag and a bicycle to protect me from the bitter elements, and where the lack of Internet and lamps […]
Day 1
Well, it’s official: I am now an Amazonian! I know, it’s an unfortunate word. Makes me think of pirañas and loincloths and National Geographic boobs. It’s doubly unfortunate given that there is a perfectly good alternative that is even more closely linked to the name of the company: I mean, why not go for an […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 