Sorry We Suck So Much

Hey all, sorry we suck and have been in Seattle for ONE MONTH and haven't written a post!!! For shame on us.

So we got here and stayed with Zoe (Clark friends FTW) and looked at like a THOUSAND apartments before finding a landlord who didn't care that we didn't have jobs. We also craigslisted a lady to be our roomate so now we have a third roomate, Lisaa.

SEATTLE IS AWESOME. I love it, it's super beautiful and nice and lovely. It's been super nice since we got here. It's only been cloudy, like, two or three days and rained twice! Everyone feels the need to tell me this isn't normal (which, duh, I know) and reassure me that a hell of cloud and rain is on it's way...thanks.

Anyway, the way I'm describing the weather to everyone is that it's like the best day of late summer/early fall where isn't not super hot but the perfect freakin' temperature and you can wear pants or shots. It's gets pretty cold at night but not NEW ENGLAND cold...god, I love it so much.

I've had a total of 6 (SIX!!!) interviews and a total of 0 (ZERO!!!) job offers. Everyone can suck it. I'm actually procrastinating from e-mailing a job listing right now by writing this post. (Don't worry Mom, I've already e-mailed two others and filled out an application for a third online.) I should get apid to tell people what not to say or do or wear in an interview because, apparently, I'm doing/saying/wearing all the wrong things. Just do the complete opposite of what I do and you'll get HIRED.

The library is closed all week DUE TO BUDGET CUTS. They make a point of saying/writing that everywhere. I think it's to make people aware of how the taxpayers are fucking them over and boy, are we feeling it this week! We have to go to the coffee shop in order to use the nets and that means having to buy something which means spending money that we don't have. But I had a free coffee today so I used that (wow, my life is SO interesting. I'm sure you are fascinated!)

OK, I guess I'm gonna go e-mail these peeps so I can go, my wrist is starting to carpal tunnel

San Francisco

We have landed in Seattle! A long journey it has been...and it has yet to come to a close. We've been very busy looking for jobs/apartments (but also trying out our first coffee shop and exploring the Fremont area and going on epic hikes along the cliffside overlooking the sound...nbd. I love Seattle from what I've seen) so we are still far from settled.

But let's backtrack a bit and try to catch up.
SAN FRANCISCO seems so long ago already. We had a lovely time! We stayed just outside of the city, actually, in Menlo Park with my friend Anna. Reunions abound!!! We also met up with Lindsay, Rachael and Vanessa for a Clark retour 2011. Then we met up with my friend from high school, Lauren. All kinds of awesome people living in SF these days and it was awesome to see you all.

meester pickle man likes rachael and lindsay

The video that we took was kind of cruddy...at least the one from my camera. I'm debating whether or not to put it up anyway. Maybe Rachael has a better one? Okay. No. Here it is. Rachael, if you have a better one, you should put it up instead etc...

Day one we went on a small tour of SF on our own. Checked out the Fisherman's Wharf, which was a tourist shitshow. Got some clam chowdah bread bowls...totes worth it.

oh hi, azkaban...i mean alcatraz

Then we ended up in a bar in the Castro called "Moby Dick". Just sayin. Also I really liked it as a tip o' the hat to my English Capstone class...lots of whale flashbacks going through my head the entire time we were there. That night is when we had some Clark-style burritos/nachos/etc. Great stuff.

Next day, Anna took us on a tour of Mountain View and the Google-plex-dom campus. EPIC. They have these little Google bikes that the employees ride around on between the buildings, spread out across a million mile expanse (obv not really.)

This is the Android Dude on the Google Campus and an epicly colorful Google bike

We all went back into the city and explored some more. Got some epic driving views from the hills. Some really gorgeous cloud action was going on up there...we got a video of that too. Maybe another time and place.

We love the rolling clouds of SF. Eliza the car makes a guest appearance.

After a sharp day wandering in the city and some yummy Chinese food, we went back to Menlo Park for our final night in the Bay Area. And after a short but sweet Italian coffee meetup in Little Italy with some lovely friends, it was time for us to continue on our way up north...

(Look, I even wrote stuff this time!)