Delightful

This is Interlaken Park, a very ferny and mossy ravine that I discovered a few Sundays ago. All I had with me was my phone to take a picture, you can be the judge if I really took this with my phone or if I found it on Google images.

LIST O' DELIGHTS
Smell of ferns
Space Needle as compass
free bus passes
my coworkers who say things to their moms like "Sorry, Muglsey."
Used books stores with kittykats to play with
If you go to the branch libraries they let you TAKE the children's
paperbacks. You don't even have to check them out. But they do want you to
return them eventually. I can read all the Newberry Award Winners I want!
Playmobil toys on every street corner
Camera Church (pictured below)


Enjoying the local seafood. (not really, eating a weird fish stick taco).
What I see when I come out of work each night. (my work's backyard).

Church looks like a camera.

Seattle Hold Shelf

People in Seattle read SO MUCH that you can never find the library book you want. You have to reserve them and then you can go to this HOLD shelf and grab your book when it comes in. My book had 322 holds on it and it took me 7 years on the wait list before I got it. Just kidding. Why does Seattle read so much?

America’s Most Literate Cities, 2006

Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the 70 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.

The original study was published online in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. A link to the 2004 rankings is provided here. The 2005 rankings were published online at Central Connecticut State University and are accessible here.

City	Overall Rank 06	05 Rank
Seattle, WA	1	1
Minneapolis, MN	2	2
Atlanta, GA	3.5	4
Washington, DC	3.5	3
St. Paul, MN	5	9.5
Pittsburgh, PA	6	8
Cincinnati, OH	7	9.5
Denver, CO	8	6
San Francisco, CA	9	5
Portland, OR	10	11

Going for a Drive with My Monster

THEY MADE A MURAL OUT OF ME: Guess what? My job in Seattle is to drive a Green Guy around in a purple car. This is me.