Jobless in Seattle

Well, I had one job interview thus far and I've applied to innumberable jobs of every sort. Soon, I will be a food service lawyer. Not a lawyer for the food service industry, but a lawyer in the food service industry. I am still excited about living here though, and can't wait until I have some money to do some things (I am creating a long list of things to do). Unfortunately there are tons of others excited about living here..and I think that has something to do with the job market. Traffic is bad here, I must say. This weekend is an event called Seafair, where a bunch of boats and ships parade around Puget Sound in Seattle. That's all well and good, but another part of Seafair is the Blue Angels. Not only do they practice their stunts directly above the Seattle metropolitan area, but they close one of the two bridges that cross Lake Washington, connecting the "Eastside" suburbs with Seattle. These bridges are packed full as it is. Nevertheless, apparently practice for an airshow is sufficiently important to shut down the arterial lifeline of a metroplitan area with over three and a half million people. The Blue Angels mission? The noble cause of military recruitment. Yes, their stunts are cool and stuff (I had toy Blue Angels jets as a kid), but couldn't they do the airshow out at Bremerton or something? The planes fly very low at very high speeds and as they pass over, it sounds like God is tearing the sky in two. The final straw for me is closing the I-90 floating bridge.

That's another thing, will there ever come a day when this city of sounds and lakes ever invests in a "real" bridge? One trait of Washingtonians I have noticed is they are extremely tight with their fiscal belts. I think they fear that the State might impose an income tax if spending gets out of hand. Anyway, this is not really a bad trait generally, but any Joe Schmoe who wants an intiative passed, no matter how offensive to the local population just has to throw in a tax cut and bingo, it's passed. Well, not quite, some local idiot recently failed to gather enough signatures to put an initiative on the ballot that would have derailed the long overdue light rail system that they are building. Apparently, after sitting for an hour in their cars to travel 5 miles on I-405 or on the 520 floating bridge, voters finally realized that light rail isn't such a bad idea, even if they have to pay some taxes for it.