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I call alot of people everyday.

If you yell at me because I mispronounce your pretentious name, you are dimwit.

Examples:
Jurgen and I pronounce it Jer-gen instead of yer-gen.
Karen and I pronounce it care-en instead of Kar-en
Andrea and I pronounce it An-dree-ah instead of an-drey-ah
Nol and I pronounce it Nole instead of No-el (like xmas)

ugh.

My first and last names are rarely pronounced correctly. In fact, I am shocked if someone gets it right on the first try. And I'll answer to anything: Alice, Tricia, Alison, Marcia.

Sorry to be bitter. I just had to get it out.

So, I do lots of reading about urban planning. At the end of the great period of civic design, and at the eve of the Industrial Revolution, the Abbe Laugier wrote:

"Il faut de la regularite et de la bizarrerie, des rapports et des oppositions, des accidens qui varient le tableau, d'un grand ordre dans les details, de la confusion, du fracas, du tumulte dans l'ensemble."

There is need for the regular and for the bizzarre, for relations and for oppositions, for accidents which give variety to the picture, for a great order in the details, for confusion, for turmoil, for tumult in the whole.

Mt. Rainier

Mt. Rainier

The best cheap beer in WA is Rainier. Named after the majestic ancient volcano, it is light, crisp, and not "cold-tasting". And it's often $2/pint or less. The vintage-looking can is as stylish as a Seattle hipster.

Sorry I've been out of touch with people. I'm working 100 hour weeks and am unable to get cell phone service at work. Happily, our space is not a basement cubicle. Our office is below the Viaduct in Seattle, a raised highway along the waterfront (and the subject of much planning controversy as it is literally crumbling and needs to be replaced or eliminated ASAP). It's a beautiful old building from the 1800's. Our office is a loft with brick walls, 20 ft ceilings, and a loft-style upper office with an old wooden staircase. And 10 phone lines. That I spend hours on. Not talking to you, my friends. ...sigh... 29 days until the elections.

Brian got an internship. He'll be working as a Research Assistant at UW on a huge multi-department grant-funded project on the effectiveness of planning projects. Since he will be working for the university through his work study, he'll get paid a bit. And, drumroll........, his tuition is waived while he's working for them! That's a ton of money for the first year as a nonresident.