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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 