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Check out the glitter roof! The interior seats are upholstered in colorful mexican blankets.

"The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leave them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer."

 

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

I was applying to graduate school and working at my first real job out of college, a now defunct biotech company.

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?

1. Plant more marigold seeds around my tomato/pepper garden.
2. Bake something, maybe a dessert.
3. Sweep my floor.
   
4. Unpack more boxes.
5. Look for a dining table.
   

3) Snacks I enjoy:

Tortilla chips with embedded salsa/guacamole, beef jerky, sweet pickled plum/fruits from asian supermarket, tofu jerkey

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

• Pay off my student loans, car loan, and any outstanding debt.
  
• Buy an island. Live on said island part-time.
  
• Build a climbing gym if island does not have rock climbing.
  
• Build an awesome house on island.
• Work as a consultant part time. Maybe study something like Buster from Arrested Development.
• Travel
  

5) Places I have lived:

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kearny, NJ

Edison, NJ

South Brunswick, NJ

Cranbury, NJ

La Jolla/San Diego, CA

Seattle, WA

6) Jobs I have had:

Bus girl, hostess at a restaurant, supermarket cashier, farmhand, mailroom clerk, graduate student, biologist, tutor

7) Bloggers I am tagging who I will enjoy getting to know better:

Rosie, InvisibleSparks

I realize that I haven't written much at all about Seattle, and there is so much to write about. But it's been a whirlwind that's finally starting to settle down. I moved into my apartment. It is really awesome. But I will start from the beginning:

Week 2-present: Work. I work at a very small start up company of about 30 people. There's a lot of work to go around, very little bureaucracy, I like that it's all about doing the best science you possibly can. I work a lot, everyone works really hard and long hours, but we always have beer and wine on Fridays. I introduced them to soju last week, it was a hit. My coworkers are also really down to earth and really interesting.

The corporate condo was less than a mile away from work, so I'd take the bus to work every morning (work is on a pretty big hill), and walk home every day taking a different route. Downtown Seattle is full of cool stores and restaurants, unfortunately, I get out of work around 6, all the stores close at 6pm, and the restaurants that are open after 6pm are all pretty expensive. Tim and I spent an evening walking all over downtown Seattle looking for a restaurant that doesn't cost more than $10 a person. Eventually, we settled on a sports bar where I had incredible mussels for about $9. I walked by the Seattle Central Library everyday, it is incredibly cool. There is so much natural light inside, and it just feels like a big room where people hang out quietly.

The condo's also very close (next block over) to the ferry terminal, Pike Place Market, and all the surrounding touristy goodness. I knew that Pike Place Market was touristy, but I had no idea I was living in tourist central until I took an alternate exit out of the condo building and saw all the seafood places and tchochke huts along the water. Fortunately, the condo was also very close to Pioneer Square, which is a really cool area to walk around, and International District, which is Seattle's Chinatown. It's also close to Safeco Field, so we were able to walk to see the soccer match between Brazil and Canada's national teams without having to deal with parking or taking crowded buses/trains.

The condo was pretty comfortable with all the amenities you'd want in a home, but what sucked (other than everything closing at 6pm) is that there were no real grocery stores around, so if you wanted to buy some garbage bags or detergent, be prepared to pay out the ass for it at a convenience store.

I was sad to miss the hustle and bustle of living in downtown Seattle, but I'm so glad to move into my new apartment.

Washington State Fact of the Day: You can only buy your liquor at a state-run liquor store. Most of them are not open on Sundays. If you were having a party where you're supplying free liquor, you have to apply for a $20 banquet license.

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I bought a new chair off the internet yesterday. It will be my only chair for the time being (I got rid of my couch so there's no place to sit other than the floor and the bed right now):

This link appeared in my inbox today:

Worst album covers ever, vote for your favorite

What's your "go-to" movie?  The one you watch when you need to just get away from it all?
Submitted by uncagedbird.

Fight Club.

How are you spending this Memorial Day? How will it differ from Memorial Days past?

On Memorial Monday, I went to Canada with Tim and his friends. The friends went to see this suspension bridge, we decided $30 was too much to spend to walk around for a couple of hours, so we walked around the neighborhood for free. Then we walked around Vancouver's Chinatown. It didn't even feel like Chinatown because it was so clean.

What did you do for fun when you were a kid? How is it different from what you see kids doing now?
Submitted by jaklumen.

I played outside everyday and got dirty. TV's only something I watched if I couldn't play outside because it's dark/raining. There wasn't much in the way of children's television programming other than a couple of hours of cartoons everyday. I also read a lot.

Kids today don't really seem to play outside and get dirty. Nor do they seem to read anything that's not Harry Potter or school related.

What's your favorite type of cheese? Or, if you don't like cheese, why not?
Submitted by Draegon Scribe.

Hard cheese: Gouda aged 5 years. It is mellow, flavorful, and completely transformed.

Soft cheese: Montbriac. Soft ripened blue cheese, on the opposite end of the spectrum from the gouda, but still so well rounded in the creaminess from all the fat and sharpness from the blue vein.

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