Bad Blogkeeping

Well, readers, guess who has been an A-List Slacker at updating her blog lately?  It’s this girl, that’s who!  And for those of you who come here every day or so to check for Life in Seattle updates, I apologize.  For those of you who are directed here accidentally by Google, I also apologize- for it is very unlikely this is what you meant to find, whatever you were searching for.

Unless you were searching for some good ol’ fashioned FUN.

Fun, you say?  FUN!, I repeat.  Time, in fact, for some fun facts (as differentiated from non-fun facts):

Fun Facts

1.  I have a new job! I know, I know.  You probably caught wind of this and then thought it was as false a rumor as Harrison Ford’s death last week.  But it’s not!  I DO have a job, and hopefully won’t prove myself so incompetent as I begin to train for it this week that they revoke it.  Because let me tell you, this job is a dream for someone who has an M.F.A. and loved her program and loves the arts in general.  And to have it work out this quickly after our blind move to Seattle feels like luck or grace on a massive scale.  Especially since…

2. David has a new job too! Placed through a temp agency, working for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The drawback?  The job consists entirely of making cold-calls to area business leaders asking them to participate in a fund raiser that is constructed as a fake lock-up (not to be confused with lock-in).  The business people are “arrested,” and the money they are asked to raise (a minimum of $2,000) is to “make bail.”  While “in lock-up” (at the Seahawks stadium) they are given “bread and water” (a fancy lunch with other networking business leaders). David has to follow a very strict (and in our opinion, painful) script, opening with, “You’ve been charged with having a BIG HEART…” (caps not mine).

We’ll see how this goes.  Work is work, and the muscular dystrophy association puts 91% of their proceeds DIRECTLY  into programs for people with MD in this county.  BUT David isn’t particularly fond of being on the phone, and we also have a problem with the conceit of the fundraiser itself… Jail, we think, isn’t funny business.

3. My dad now knows that I moved to Seattle. I told him after I found out that I was going to have a job, and fudged a little and made it sound like I moved here because I thought there was a good chance I could get this job.  So at least now he knows.  He seemed fine with it.

4. My mom’s boyfriend won $30,000 on a scratch-off ticked at a gas station in Cleveland. I’ve never met or spoken to the dude, but now refer to him as “Daddy Warbucks” to my brother.

5. I have seen more genitalia since I moved to Seattle than I have in my whole life! This has to do with a Solstice parade we attended with some friends that, in addition to some very lively costumes and music and dancing, also included a clothing-optional bike race.  Except it wasn’t really a race, most of those folks were going very slowly, so as to show off their… love of the solstice?  Then also there was a Pride celebration last weekend at the Seattle Center, just across the street from our building.  There was loud music and food and a big crowd so we wandered over.  And then I saw some private parts again.

That’s all the fun facts I have for now.  Today is David’s first full day at work and although my instinct is to say, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself!” the truth is I have like twenty things on my agenda (food shopping, some reading and writing work, laundry, etc).  So until next time.