seattle

i love my seattle. i love working in downtown. i love taking the public transit. i love that i can walk to get to places. seattle is so unique and vibrant. there is so much music, art and individuality here. the plants are blooming now and days are getting longer, spring has just begun and i can't wait for summer!

the other day after i got off work i stuck around downtown. i walked around pikes market for a little bit, drank an amazing cup of coffee, wrote in my journal, and grabbed a movie with a friend. then as i waited for my bus to come - to head back home - i noticed a man walking by with a pristinely bald head and sitting square atop his head was the most obvious toupe i've ever seen. then i looked at a bus across the street and it had an advertisement on the side for an academy in town that was a school for acrobatics. and i loved this place.

Life.

frequently i just laugh. life is funny.

for example, i laughed on the bus a few days ago while i was heading to work. i was sitting by the window and happened to see someone in the car next to the bus who - while driving - was brushing their teeth. i laughed.

then today, i was riding home on the bus and once again, looked out the window and saw a car driving by and the driver was brushing their teeth...in the car...while driving! i laughed even harder.

brushing teeth while driving. it was something i had never seen before, and seems difficult and totally impractical. maybe i'm just out of the loop but it seems that "brushing drivers" is a rare occurance, and i happened to see it twice in a matter of 3 days. life is funny.

Scooty Pep

well blog, it has been a while.

i am currently in india which is absolutely lovely! for those of you who don't know, my sister sara lives in india. she is pretty much my hero. people usually guess that i am the older sister...mostly because i'm the bossier of the two of us, and possibly because i have less of a baby face. but sara is my older sister. it's funny because on this trip we've been talking about our similarities and differences. we have similar interests, likes and dislikes, but we are quite different at the core. i think our core strengths and weaknesses are what is mainly different about the two of us. and where people usually guess i'm older, sara has all the qualities of an ideal older sister, because she's always carried me.

now, when i said that being in india was lovely, don't get the wrong impression. i love this place and the people here but india is quite dirty and QUITE different from any western place. i would describe the culture as chaotic, the driving as unpredictable, the air as spicy, the people as ambiguous and the food as scrumptious! i have been riding around on the back of sara's scooty pep. i call it a scooty pep because that's what it says on the side but in fact it's a normal moped. i've loved riding the back. at first i was holding on to the back with both hands, then progressed to one hand, now i sit on the back holding my camera with both hands twisting around to snap pictures as we whiz by landmarks and crazy colorful buildings and cars! it's quite fun!

i love the trees here. there are palm trees, banyan trees, huge cedar trees (or at least what look like cedar trees) and there are so many trees with colorful flowers growing in them. the colors here are amazing. this place is so full of color and life! it's never still and quite for a moment. the buildings are brightly painted, the cars are florescent, the temples are covered in blue and orange gods with bulging bellies. even the food is colorful!

i am loving it here!