Seattle : wake up!

Its supposed to be spring time in Seattle but its still looks like the cold season will not go down without a fight, while spring and summer do not seem any interested in any fight.. so us all Seattle citizenry would have to forgo the pleasures of spring this year.

The chance of walking out without dragging along that cumbersome heavy peice of clothing called a jacket / overcoat with you is a boon. For how hard we might try, we in seattle cannot get to that goal. Forever we are under the watchful gloomy eyes of the dark heavenly clouds. Ya bark at them and the shower some more rain on ya just when ya thought it was over.

Gloom is not hard to find in this city. The whole city seems sort-of dead-on-arrival. Maybe coming from Chicago it has become second nature to be around in a city teeming with people and things to do. Coming back to Seattle though,of course one might argue that there's so much of nature to explore around Seattle but, the fact is, I don't live in the mountains everyday. I live in an apartment on the 7th floor of an old building in the middle of downtown. I need some activity around me that says - Come join me and lets be alive. That aint Seattle.

Its been 8 months for me here and I still look for bits and pieces of Chicago in everything Seattle. Till that ends, I would not be able to savor this city. But I dread the day I would not look for Chicago in Seattle or for that matter in any place I go next.