Sweet Home San Diego
Jun 25th, 2008 by Anna
Here’s a look at my happy little morning routine. Brian goes to his Kosinski shed…I mean office…everyday at 5 am (Note from Brian: I’m not sure Ted Kaczynski would approve of my shed seeing as how he was calling for a “revolution against technology” – it might be more accurate to refer to it as the anti-Kaczynski shed)and usually I wake up at that time and snuggle in bed until about 5:45 when Oscar comes to find me. We have a thing where I pretend to be asleep until he gives me a kiss, and then I open my eyes and tell him good morning, ask him about his dreams and all that good stuff. Laurel is usually awake at this point, but I WON’T get out of bed until 6 am and once I do get up I’ve got to get a few things taken care of before I get her out of her crib. Stuff like using the bathroom alone and getting the dog out of her crate and loading the day’s podcast of the Bryant Park Project on my ipod. I just love listening to these guys give me the morning news while I make breakfast.
Today’s show included an interview with Richard Florida about his new book, “Who’s Your City?”. They talked about how cities develop and thrive and create these megaregions that are responsible for two-thirds of the world’s economic output as well as 90% of its creative innovations while accounting for 18% of the world’s population. That’s great & exciting news. Nice to hear positive information about the state of our world for a change.
Having grown-up in a rural area, I am surprised how well I’ve adapted to life in a city. I know that San Diego can’t compare to a true urban environment (somewhere I heard SD called a suburb by the sea) but it is a heck of a lot more city than Murphys, right? Anyway, I really do love San Diego and consider it home. The author of this book also has a website with some best-of type lists. I was pleased to see San Diego made it on the top 5 of three of the six lists (best cities for mid-career professionals, best cities for families with children, best cities for gays and lesbians). It is great to have a little outside validation of my hometown…especially when home prices are down something like 20%!
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“Kosinski shed”, rofl
—Pete