one fake homeless person at a time.

24 October 2009

last day in seattle.

now that i have 6 months in seattle under my belt, i've decided i'm an expert. this makes a full year of working here, and i thought i'd compare my two living situations.
-beds in greenwater are much softer. funny, i know; you'd think all the fluffiness of seattlites would necessitate like feather beads or something, but that hasn't been my experience.
-it doesn't snow in seattle. after two sets of six months here, i've not got snowed on even once. last winter in greenwater, we had feet on the ground for four whole months! what gives?
-there's different people in each place. i thought everyone was the same, but it turns out, i'm wrong. there isn't one person who lives in both seattle and greenwater at exactly the same time. weird.
-it's way colder in greenwater. i think last winter the highest temp i felt (no need for a thermometer with THIS sami!) was around 55 degrees fahrenheit, while in seattle, i worked one day where it hit 103! record setting temps! i was under the impression that for every thousand feet of elevation the temps drop by 3 degrees in stable conditions. apparently i was wrong.
-seattle has only the months of may-october, and greenwater only has december-april. not a continuous calender. i guess they have not having november in common. i always thought the calendar was more or less start to finish, but in twelve months in seattle, i've not seen a single day on the calendar from november-april. also a bit weird. i blame greg nickels and tim carr.
-the stranger doesn't get distributed in greenwater. it's like they don't want to believe in a world outside of seattle. (oh wait. . .)
anyway. i'm sure there's more, but i'm in the middle of tryna move without my roommates knowing, so i'm a little distracted. i'm not moving out to avoid paying something, or to avoid them for any reason other than i haven't told them i'm leaving today. i'm certain there is a better way to do this, but for some reason, hindenburg the neighbour cat has my tongue. plus the junior roommate wasn't home last night, and this morning, everyone is sleeping. and i haven't seen hindenburg for a couple days, so i don't know if she'll give me my tongue back before i leave. i imagine awkwardness if the roomies wake up. the only issue i can think of is i hafta move my mattress, which is heavy, ergo i may hafta ask for help, and i hafta vaccuum. since the senior roomie shares a wall with me, he might hear. unless hindenburg has his ears.
lastly, someone mentioned an ex-neighbour "dating" me. while i know what dates are and indeed enjoy their meaty fruit and the milkshakes one can "drop" with the sugar drawn from said meaty fruit, i'm not sure what "dating" entails. would she "huck dates" at me? would she "paste dates" on my forhead? would she simply "gift dates" to me? until we clear this up, ima steer clear. no offence; i'm sure she's a really nice girl, but i reserve dates for when i'm in california and i can buy locally. i've not seen any date palms in the puget sound basin.

2 comments:

  1. When you DO waken your roommate to help you move your mattress, on which 20 square feet of floor space will you put it down? In a certain log- cabin style home in inundation-threatened cow-country which should be high enough to let you sleep without snorkeling gear?

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  2. Dating. She would put a coded notification on you predicting when you would begin to smell funny. I don't know why so many people enjoy this but they do or claim to.

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