I have a new job! Or rather a new freelance assignment. It will last through the first week of March and pays me enough to keep me in all the $1 Starbucks coffee my little heart desires. Best yet, it is at a design firm whose work I have long admired and I am learning a great deal from some really talented creative people. I was unemployed in Seattle for a total of 5 days, for which I feel very fortunate. Of course when the assignment ends I might have weeks and weeks of unemployment, but for right now it is helping me adjust and meet new people.
Parking downtown costs about $16/day, so I have been riding the bus to work. It's a short 15 minute ride and costs about $1.50 each way. I think the experience of taking the bus makes me feel like a real grown up in a real city, but I suspect the novelty will wear off soon. It is comfortable to come home and make a little dinner for me and my roommate, chat with a few friends, and close out the evening with the Colbert Report. I feel all domesticated. But it's only been a week.
Weekends have been spent adventuring in such places as the landmark Seattle Central Library and the giant retail city of Tukwila. Poor Tukwila seems to exist purely as a location on the outskirts of metropolitan Seattle where cityfolks can drive a short distance to the giant Ikea, Ross, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Guitar Center and Westfield Shoppingtown, a shoppingtown within a shoppingtown. It's as though the city of Seattle has taken the garish landscaping that embodies the suburban strip mall and swept it under the carpet that is Tukwila. That way the neighborhoods of Belltown, Magnolia, Fremont, Queen Anne and Pioneer Square can stay as charming as their names might imply.
The best thing so far really has been our location within Lower Queen Anne and down the street from the Seattle Center. This is my first experience of living in the heart of a metropolitan area. I enjoy hearing the shouts of drunk people down the street. It's sort of similar to the feeling of being all cozy inside when it's raining outside, which I've also been enjoying a lot. We are like a 5 minute walk from two grocery stores, a really good thai food place, the local indie movie theater, a used book store, a pottery studio, a record store, the Key Area, Seattle International Film Festival Theater, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Experience Music Project, some crazy looking big top circus dinner theater place called Teatro ZinZanni and a bunch of bars and restaurants. It reminds me of visiting friends at Berkeley in that everything is walking distance and I am excited to go out and try it all.
The only drawback is that with so much to do, it's been difficult to find time to blog...
Feb 3, 2008
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
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As a Tukwila resident your comments made me laugh. I like the carpet analogy. We don't get the same respect as other areas in and around Seattle its true. Our name is lovely though and stands up to Magnolia, Fremont, Queen Anne and the like. Intel actually named a chip after us once although that may make a case for you that we are not quaint enough anymore. Nobody is naming things after Wallingford after-all.
We have a chip on our shoulder so maybe that is why Intel picked us. We used to have a great little town feel with community buildings and a hidden quality. Unfortunately for us we were in the way and the Interstate 5 construction project went right through this little nook between two hills that made up the core of the city of Tukwila in the 1950's. Nothing survived except a church that was moved. So while all the great neighborhoods of Seattle and even Burien were establishing the basis for their neighborhood culture we were trying to figure out how to reconnect our "spit in two" city. Seattle itself has struggled with the disenfranchisement of some neighborhoods with what was the design on the cheap intrusion into the area of the I5 corridor. But that is the past.
Today Tukwila is a city that is a little hidden. Generally people couldn't tell you where it is if you asked them but they always know where South Center is. But we do have something that is lost to most people in the area. We have a city that is small and controls its own destiny. We have a 100 year history of incorporation and only 17000 people. We can do things the way we want. I, as a citizen know all the city leaders personally and if I have an issue I could get some service. I might not always get the answer I want but someone I know will make the call. We are in a prime location in the area and while many may think that we are made up of strip malls we are the key commercial zone of all the south of King county. In 50 years Tukwila will rival Bellevue for its amenities and its commerce.
If you shop here though I want to thank you on behalf of our schools.
$1 starbucks coffee?! wtf.. is that a perk of being in seattle?
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