365 Day Project - Day 330

TUESDAY

This is what I look at most Tuesdays, because I'm usually stuck in my cube...cramming before our Wednesday press deadline.

For a long while, Tuesdays were pretty much my least favorite day of the week, due to the aforementioned cube-stuckedness/deadline cramming, topped off with a nightly visit to the Edgewood City Council Meeting.
A couple months ago, I was relieved of my "Edgewood council" beat, after years of trekking deep into the depths of East Pierce County, which (no offense, E-wood) has definitely lessend the usual Tuesday suckedness that I had become accustomed to for so long.

So now, Tuesdays just kinda suck. 

 

But they suck even less when i get to stare at a buliten board covered mostly with inspirational images, words and faces I love. 

KEY:

(Bottom row from left to right)  Work phone number chart and extension list. Tacoma Farmers Market card with a cartoon version of the city-skyline I like. "Tacoma Saves" Jesus Postcard. A photo of Eddie as a puppy.  A photo of my brother Pete. A Poloriod of me and Sean "Swampy Claus" Nivens on Christmas at the Top while we were still strangers. 

(Middle row, right to left): Gold Teeth zipper sticker (unstuck... I'm saving it for something good.) A grouping of fortunes and a quote I like and "laminated" with scotch tape. They read "You will always be surrounded by true friends" "You will go far but be sure to come back" and an old quote (by Matt Driscoll of the Weekly Volcano from some article I can't even remember what about, but the quote jumped out at me and I cut it from the paper and have had it for over two years now because it perfectly describes so many of my beloved locals) "...the gritty, cigarette smoking, cheap booze drinking, toxin ingesting, broken dreams having, crazy look in your eye Tacoman I know and love..." 

 Next is a pretty printed card with two birds on it complementing me on a column I wrote (I like prints, brids and kind words, I tacked it up.) A tiny pin of what appears to be Magilla Gorilla on a Mini Cooper. A postcard depicting the major SR-16 at Sprague construction "flub" which reads "Tacoma. Working hard to get... somewhere?" My sister's Christmas card (which I photographed)  depicting her family in a flawlessly awesome parody of the cover of "Abbey Road."

(Top row): A copy of the original Star of Destiny that says all the great things about Tacoma in 1910. It served as inspiration for the centennial recreation in the Tacoma Weekly.
Lady Gaga Monster Ball 2011 Calendar. 

The end. 

Bring it on, Tribal Wednesday!