I’m currently sitting in a Tully’s in Seattle, right off the University of Washington campus. The beautiful things about Seattle:
1. People in shops are incredibly nice, so much so that I find myself wondering who might rob me while they are distracting me with their niceties.
2. There is a coffee shop for everyone. Literally. There is one around every corner, inside every store, restaurant, library, head shop, bike store: The on-campus library is not only beautiful, but is the library “slash espresso bar.” The fact that I’m sitting in a Tully’s seems almost unreal.
3. U-Dub is gorgeous. The entire campus feels, stereotypically, like a college: Gothic buildings, Anti-Israeli-Palestinian Conflict protests, trees with brown leaves newly fallen, fields that look perfectly made for frisbee and hacky-sack… the list goes on. Not only that, but it has a sense of humor: there is an alligator head in the fountain that follows you where you walk, and most of the campus edifices (the flock of crows in the library that carry letters in their mouths, the modern art in front of the law library) have either little metaphorical purpose, or their reason is entirely unknown to their student populace. The squirrels are batshit crazy, too.
4. Public transportation that runs on a timely schedule. The buses are nice, too, as well as their drivers.
5. The people are colorful. All a little nerdier looking than your average Nor-Californian, but most happier-looking, despite the fog.
6. They post the BAC limit (.08%) as a speed limit sign near the UWA campus, with a foreboding tow-truck sign below it.
7. BIKERS ARE EVERYWHERE. It’s not the exception, its the rule.
8. People are carrying musical instruments on the street. Bums are okay. Downtown looks like Berkeley’s telegraph, just a little less stoned.
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