"Squeeze the World"

Here I hope to record the next adventure of my life and keep everyone back home updated on my travels. I'm not sure how consistent my posting will be, so I've set up a subscription tool to notify people on each update via email. I'd love to hear from anyone while I'm gone!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

At the UW

So I'm settling into Seattle now. It's quite an adventure. Much like Israel, I have new foods and bus routes to conquer. Unlike Israel, I'm also needing to prepare myself for my academic pursuits. I spent a good part of today with my brother Nathan, a weathered Seattlelite. He picked me up from the Ave and we took busses across town to watch a movie (The King of Kong: A fistful of quarters, I highly recommend it) and playing with electronics at Robothon, a robot oriented activity at the Seattle Center. I also experienced Dick's for the first, and surely not the last, time.

After that great adventure, I went to a job "interview" with the school newspaper. I had already contacted someone about a copy-editor position, but I wasn't sure what to expect. After the Copy Chief finished telling me that she may not have as many hours as she first thought, she asked if I could come in later to work on a few columns. I was pleased to find that some of my prior knowledge came to use. One of the columns was a review of The King of Kong, and I saved the day for another editor when I recalled that "Kramer" is a surname for Cosmo, the Seinfeld character.

In all, it's a good day's work. My feet are sore, I'm pretty tired, and I successfully secretly cracked the window open so I won't roast tonight. All is well in the world.

Since I know this will be great interest to some, here are a few pictures of my new living area.

My bed
side view
desk area

I'm staying in a quad, so there are two separate rooms- one with two bunk beds and the other has four desks. Also, we scored our own bathroom, complete with a bathtub, even. Not too bad.
A, 11:13 PM

2 Comments:

Cosmo is the surname for "Kramer", not the other way around :P
Blogger Le Nathanwich, at 10/02/2007 6:49 PM  
Fun,Glad to be in the loop again.
Blogger Florence Robinson, at 10/06/2007 10:22 PM  

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