More lists

Reasons I loved growing up in the suburbs

• Waking up Saturday mornings to my dad's gas lawnmower and the smell of freshly cut grass through my window
• Having a front and back yard
• Falling asleep in the summer to the sounds of frogs croaking in the pond behind said back yard
• Enjoying such simple past times as movies with friends at our one local theater and getting Coldstone afterwards
• Benefiting from a public education that was rigorous enough to get into college but not so demanding that I had a nervous breakdown
• Having my pick of sprawling parking lots in which to learn how to drive
• Having parking, always, wherever I went, period
• Having... quiet... so much of it. No buses, trucks, trains or planes. 
• Beautiful, glorious suburban sprawl as far as the eye can see.

Concepts I learned in college that I still think about constantly

• Rational choice theory
• Law of diminishing returns at the margin
• Implicit bias, Implicit Association Test
• Social loafing
• Learned helplessness
• Game theory, prisoner's dilemma, zero-sum game
• Opportunity cost, sunk cost
• Compassion fatigue
• Triangular theory of love
• Confirmation bias
• Tokenism
• Utilitarianism
• Nihilism
• Secular humanism
• Microaggressions

Boutique business starter pack

• Chalkboard 
• Instagram promotions
• Compostable packaging
• Edison string lights
• Succulents
• Exposed brick
• Young employees
• Square
• Gentrified neighborhood

Things I like about working in Pioneer Square

• Picking up holds at the Central Library on my lunch break
• Walks on the waterfront now that there's less construction
• Meeting up with my mom who works nearby
• Chinatown for Uwajimaya (and Pokemon Go gym battles)
• Columbia Tower for juice
• Westlake for buying presents
• Witnessing the full spectrum of social classes, all together in one square block, more or less. 

How millennials communicate

• writing things in all lowercase letters
• capitalizing the first letter of only specific words for Emphasis, even words that Aren't Proper Nouns
• using exaggerated kerning with words, also for e m p h a s i s
• putting👏clapping👏hands👏emojis👏between👏every👏word👏to👏add👏even👏more👏emphasis
• using gifs
  
  
• using #hastags #thelongerthebetter
• starting sentences with the word "honestly"
• ending sentences with imho, lol, lmao or tbh.

Things I look forward to when I travel to England/Spain this August

• Buying and reading a physical copy of the local newspaper
• Tasting the best of that region's junk food (very important; I'm talking sweet and savory)
• Taking public transportation
• Chatting with locals
• Attending church and worshiping God in a different way
• Spending hours at museums
• Taking tacky selfies
• Committing a cultural faux pas (like the one above)
• Getting lost
• Shaking my head at other tourists.