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Jun. 2nd, 2004 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triadruidI love this city (Kansas City, for those of you playing at home). Boston is still my favorite place to visit, but for out-and-out living here, Kansas City really has everything I need and then some.
I much prefer the character of an older building being rehabbed, next to a newly refurbished building holding a small business, down the road from the new tower building, than strip mall after strip mall after strip mall after...
While I curse it some days, I like that you can drive 15 minutes and be in a totally different neighborhood, with different businesses, characteristics, and benefits. I *love* that my job lets me go to so many of them.
I like working for the City, too. Even with the inherent potential for corruption and inefficiency of our system of government, they get things done from time to time. Even in a severe fiscal crunch, they're trying new things, like a off-leash park and an expansion of the number of animals a household can have, as long as the neighbors don't mind. They're doing the best they can with the information (and support!) they get, for the most part. It helps that I work for what I unabashedly think is the most responsive, involved department in the entire City. But I'd rather work here than be in a 9-5 office somewhere for more pay, or doing makework in a suburban government functionary's job.
I don't know what it is. Maybe the gorgeous weather. Maybe getting out of town for a few days (yes, my Heartland report is coming, I just haven't had time) gave me a better appreciation. I was driving around running errands this afternoon and it came over me, so I figured, "I have a journal...I could actually write this down."
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I much prefer the character of an older building being rehabbed, next to a newly refurbished building holding a small business, down the road from the new tower building, than strip mall after strip mall after strip mall after...
While I curse it some days, I like that you can drive 15 minutes and be in a totally different neighborhood, with different businesses, characteristics, and benefits. I *love* that my job lets me go to so many of them.
I like working for the City, too. Even with the inherent potential for corruption and inefficiency of our system of government, they get things done from time to time. Even in a severe fiscal crunch, they're trying new things, like a off-leash park and an expansion of the number of animals a household can have, as long as the neighbors don't mind. They're doing the best they can with the information (and support!) they get, for the most part. It helps that I work for what I unabashedly think is the most responsive, involved department in the entire City. But I'd rather work here than be in a 9-5 office somewhere for more pay, or doing makework in a suburban government functionary's job.
I don't know what it is. Maybe the gorgeous weather. Maybe getting out of town for a few days (yes, my Heartland report is coming, I just haven't had time) gave me a better appreciation. I was driving around running errands this afternoon and it came over me, so I figured, "I have a journal...I could actually write this down."
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Ditto
Date: 2004-06-03 01:18 pm (UTC)The rest is history, mainly involving September 11th and Westport and not knowing my way around town, and ice storms, and nice jeans...