Three months after returning to Seattle, I've (finally) started looking for work. I'm not looking much, certainly not wearing a suit and tie and pounding the pavement, but I've updated my resumé and made a few inquiries.
Over a lifetime of working for a living, I've held lots of crappy jobs — mostly office work, which is mostly boring, but I'm good at it.
I'm hoping to get out of the office, though. I'm old, so my next job will probably be my last job, and it would be nice to work someplace I might actually be proud of.
My first inquiry was at Dick's. They're a well-run business, and I'd look dashing in a paper hat.
I'm nuts about public transit, so I've pre-applied to answer phones for Metro, helping people find their way on the bus from Ballard to Bothell, etc.
Being a big fan of old and weird and foreign movies, I'd be a nice fit at Scarecrow Video. Haven't applied there yet, but I will if I don't hear from Dick's or Metro Transit.
And when all of those places say no to me?
Oh, well. I can always do office work again.
I lived in San Francisco for a long time, and if there's one thing I miss from there it's my wife, but if there's a second thing I miss it's a good California-style burrito.
A California burrito is not bean gruel wrapped in a tortilla, which seems to describe every burrito sold anywhere outside California. Puh-lease. A Cali burrito has chunks of meat and chopped vegetables, and beans and rice that are actually beans and rice, not glop. And the tortilla gets grilled. And it's delicious.
That's a burrito unknown outside California, but I was hoping, Seattle being on the same coast and all, maybe there's a reasonable facsimile here? If there is, I haven't found it yet.
Taco Time is very good at what they do, but they don't do a California burrito. Taco Bell isn't worth mentioning. I've been to mom&pop taquerias and eaten alleged California-style burritos that were merely mush.
Tell me please, does anyone sell a good burrito around here?