Donut Tourism: Seattle

If you know me, you know I love donuts (also doughnuts, but I prefer the simplified spelling). In fact, for my birthday last year, my coworkers built me a donut cake.

So I absolutely love trying new donuts and new donut shops when I'm traveling. I call it Donut Tourism, and I'm going to make it a recurring feature on the blog--especially since we'll be moving and I'll be sampling donuts all over the country! In fact, I also plan to do a couple retroactive posts now that I think of it (i.e. Voodoo Donuts from when Curtis and I went to Portland in 2011).

ANYWAY.

When we were in Seattle last week (which went quite well, and I should probably post about that, but FIRST THINGS FIRST) we did the normal touristy Pike's Place Market, and Curtis's college friend and old roommate who was our tour guide insisted that we try the cinnamon mini donuts from this little stall/booth.

 

As you can see from the photo above, we plowed through the first six donuts before I was like "OMG I NEED TO TAKE A PHOTO OF THESE. THESE ARE THE MOST AMAZING DONUTS I'VE EVER EATEN."

So warm. So cinnamon-y. So fluffy and airy and sweet.

Fried, dough-y perfection.

I told my mom she had to try these when she visited the next day, and I extend the commandment to ANYONE READING THIS. If you find yourself in downtown Seattle, nay, anywhere near the Pacific Northwest. You absolutely must make the pilgrimage to this donut place--Daily Dozen.

Weekend Update--Seattle Edition

Seattle was a success! I had such a good time meeting everyone, and I feel very informed and ready to start classes on Wednesday. On the meeting everyone front--I want to create a link repository for other UW MLIS blogs. If you have one, please leave a link in the comments!

So, in short, here are a few highlights. While in Seattle, I

• Met a ton of awesome, like-minded people.


• Had good Mexican food. Yeah. In Seattle. I live in San Diego. This is a big deal.


• Drank. Every. Single. Day.


• Stayed with family I'd never met who were so kind and very fun (Hi, David & Eva!).


• Rode the city bus for the first time.


• Rode the wrong city bus, got lost, and had to call for help.


• Ate falafel for lunch every day.


• Visited the Burke Museum and saw some cool taxidermy & dino bones.


• Flew alone for the first time since I was 13.


• Bought this really cute ceramic origami crane for my office:

Classes start Wednesday, and I couldn't be more excited! This is gonna be great.

Away I go!

I'm leaving my office for the airport in 30 minutes.

I'm terrified.

I don't really know where I'm staying tonight (though I know with whom I'm staying, and am grateful they'll be picking me up at SEA/TAC) and I don't know how to ride the bus, which I'll have to figure out early tomorrow morning. I don't know anyone, aside from brief electronic interaction, and I have absolutely no idea what to expect from orientation.

But I'm also excited. As much as I resist change, I do like new adventures, and I'm glad to be able to see Seattle a bit. Events like this prove that I am self-sufficient, even though most of the time I really don't think I am. And I am looking forward to meeting my classmates.

I don't know if I'll be updating this blog for the rest of the week while I'm gone, but be sure to check Twitter to see what I'm up to!

Wish me luck!

Weekend Update

This weekend, I

• Tried to get a jump on reading for class. I've finished 2/8 of the articles.


• Had breakfast at a really cute little diner in Mission Hills called The Huddle. BEST strawberry-rhubarb jam EVER.


• Borrowed luggage from a friend for my trip.


• Cleaned my apartment so I don't come home to a mess when I get back.


• Baked pumpkin cupcakes (my student employees are now reaping the benefits).


• Started packing.


• And therefore sent my boyfriend about a billion outfit photos so I could get some input on what to bring. Case in point:

I leave for Seattle tomorrow. Can't believe it. Super nervous, but also excited! Lots to do before then.

P.S. If you want to keep up with my weekends in real time, follow me on Twitter! I'll be tweeting a lot when I'm in Seattle too.

Reading, of course

Last night I got an email from the professor of my Information Life Cycle class with the reading list for the quarter.

It's very exciting, and I thought I'd share it with you if you were interested.

• Buckland, Michael K. 1991. Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42 (5).


• Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. 2000. The Social Life of Information. Chapter 7: Reading the Background.


• Lee, Hur-Li. 2000. What is a collection? Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51 (12).


• Benkler, Yochai. 2006. Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Chapter 3: Peer production and sharing. Yale University Press.


• Waltham, Mary. 2003. Challenges to the role of publishers. Learned Publishing 2003 (16), 7-14


• Carlyle, Allyson, and Lisa M. Fusco. 2007. Understanding FRBR as a conceptual model: FRBR and the bibliographic universe. ASIST Bulletin.


• Taylor, Robert S. 1986. Value Added Processes in Information Systems. Chapter 4: The Value-Added Model.


• Bates, Marcia J. 1999. The invisible substrate of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (12).

I'm thinking about posting responses to the articles up here, just to make myself think critically about them. What do you think? Would readers even be interested in that?

Anyway, it's kind of strange... I guess this class is only 2 weeks long. I never saw any mention of that while registering. But it's kind of cool too--I'll earn 2 credits in 2 weeks! Easy peasy.

All of this is starting to seem real. I leave for Seattle in 6 days, and I am so nervous. Excited, but nervous.