Good ol' King County Transit

So as cost-efficient working gal I commute every day by the bus. Since I haven't moved out of my parents place yet, I take the bus from the Eastside to the Westside. And I must say that I'm pretty impressed with the bus, maybe its my location but there are always buses running past my house, so even if I'm running a few minutes late (which is often) I can still manage to hop on a bus and make it to work in the nick of time.

After growing up in Chicago (fun fact I lived in Chicago up until I was 20), I was used to well for lack of better word, scary public transit. The CTA was always slightly intimidating, the L always smelled slightly funny and there was always that one person who just kind of looked shady. I would almost never take the CTA by myself and if you do the rule is always head down and don't make eye contact.

Comparatively in Seattle, the public transit is fairly efficient and I feel that its fairly safe. There is still that one odd person but the majority of the time I'm surrounded by business people like myself. Although there is always a faint smell of a true granola, I guess it wouldn't be Seattle without it. Suffice to say I've been very impressed with the King County Transit Authority and I just wanted to give them a little praise.

On a different note, I skyped with a friend of mine who is studying abroad in New Zealand, it was FANTASTIC to see her smiling face, and I hope to see it many more times!! Hopefully with some better internet next time :)

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The Hunt is Over!

Remember how I mentioned that I was looking for a house? Well after several weeks of playing cat and mouse, I'm the cat and the house is the mouse. Every time we thought we were close the house would slip right past us. It was quite the emotional roller coaster...

But finally after weeks of looking we landed a little place of our own. We have a cute little 3 bed apartment in Ballard, and we're pretty close to downtown. We definitely felt like a winner. And after going the lease the place was ours. It's weird to think of how a couple of signatures can make something yours. We were in some weird sense of shock after we signed the lease, like we almost couldn't believe that it was really ours.

To be completely honest I'm still in that weird feeling of shock and excitement....

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Hello,

My name is Katie, I'm a recent graduate from the University of Puget Sound. I majored in Economics and minored in business and partying. I recently started a consulting job out here in Seattle; I get to spend my day working at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Not to sound corny but I feel really cool when I'm in there because I'm like this is where change happens. Before you graduate they try to sell you on perks of different companies, like we have a playground or homemade sushi bar. So far while at the Foundation I've discovered that it has pretty good coffee that comes out of a fancy machine. FREE CHOCOLATE! (definitely a bonus on sleepy days), a large cafeteria and endless amounts of bars. A note on the bars, you have to watch for the delivery people because if your slow you wind up with the gross chalky tasting bars... no one wants those...

In other news I'm currently house hunting with two of my gal pals from school, we are trying to make the big decision into real adult hood. So far I feel like I'm playing a giant game of cat and mouse because you always feel like your close and then it just slips away. I'm currently trying to think of a way give myself a competitive advantage, so if anyone has any house hunting tips feel free to share :)

That's about it for now!
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