I was walking home from work the other day (my favorite non-specific temporal qualifier), and I witnessed probably the single best thing ever since my arrival in Seattle.  After crossing a street, I noticed a black guy ride by on a bicycle, followed immediately by a black guy on a Segway.  Upon closer inspection (I love Segways), I noticed that this particular specimen had been painted with a bright red racing stripe, and…could it be? Yes! Shiny plastic spinners.  It was basically the best moment of my entire life.  Also one of those moments that I desperately wanted my camera with me.

In other news, work is going well.  I’m acclimating to the new environment pretty well, and definitely getting along with my team.

Outside of work, I’ve started going to hip-hop and breakdancing classes at Velocity Dance Center, which 2 times a week for hip-hop and once a week for breakdancing.  The classes are really great, and I think I’ll make a lot of progress by the time the summer is over.  Barring that, I’ll at least be in decent shape.

In another series of highly improbably coincidences, seven other interns and I have formed The Funktors, an all-male a capella group that meets about twice a week and sings contemporary arrangements.  We’re pretty much the best a capella group made of male software development engineer interns ever.

I finally found some nail clippers.  I’ve been looking for some nail clippers since arriving in Seattle, since they’re one of those things that you almost always forget to pack, despite the fact that you almost always wind up needing them.  I found some though, and I trimmed my fingernails.  It is a wonderful feeling.

My first four days at work have been crazy and hectic, but I think I’m starting to get the hang of things.  My team seems pretty awesome, and I’ve started making real progress on the warm-up tasks they’ve given me.  My opinion of Seattle right now compares a little less than favorably to Boston.  The public transit system here consists of a baffling array of buses, which makes the city feel larger than it should.  The people here are quite nice though, and I hear it’s a West Coast thing.  The coffee is definitely delicious, that’s for sure.

I’ve found that I have a habit of always ending my paragraphs with a short statement.  Weird.