Mad City
On Friday, I thought I didn't have a cube; I was wrong. But I guess it turned out for the better, because I got to work in areas where I could still see the gorgeous day outside the window, instead of in the cube, which is narrowly out of view of a window. I worked in Seattle's Best all morning, in a corner facing the Urban Plaza. I looked at policies regarding urban chickens in different states. It's hard, slow work, becuase there isn't a nifty little database for all chicken ordinances and all the cities have different jargon. So its a bit frustrating. I found this website that is a compilation and summary of all the cities chicken ordinances (who have them) but I don't know if it's legit. I am going to have to look at that page more and see. It would make my job a lot easier if it had links to a muni code website where it got this info. But that would just be too easy, right?
About 12, I went down to the library via streetcar to pick up the book, "The Omnivores dilemna". Ellen reccomended it to me the first week and I had been waiting for it to come in. I read about a chapter of it and it is terribly interesting, and good writing style too, but I think it was just because I was in a comfy chair in the library next to a sunny window, I really just wanted to take a nap.
So in an effort to wake up, and because it was about lunch time, I went to the food carts on 4th. I had this really good, cheap vietnamese sandwich sitting out in the sun in the Plaza. it was so nice. After, I went back to the library and wrestled with the recorder we had used for the concentrates interview for about an hour until it was time to meet with Ellen and Nicole for Mad City Chickens.
The movie was a bit cheesy, and I pretty much knew all the information it was telling us from all the articles I've been reading, but it was good for getting people interested in the debate. I could tell they had fun making the movie.