day six of notes about my new position at annarbor.com
It's about a mile and a half as the crow flies from my office at annarbor.com to my home. If I'm willing to detour a bit out of the way along the way, I can make a reasonable direct path by bus, bicycle, or walking that takes me through a big part of central campus, the athletic campus, a few neighborhoods, about 20 coffee and ice cream shops, and dozens of bulletin boards where events and notices are posted.
Tuesday's trek home I did on foot with my cell phone open to Twitter and with my eyes open for what was going on on central campus. I got a chance to see new businesses and closing businesses on Liberty St and State St, the relative quiet of the Diag in the summer time, picture-perfect Law Quad greenery, and giant touch-screen displays inside the business school. Interestingly enough, the twitter stream I sent out got enough comments that I felt like I had people double checking the observations I had along the way (and I have half a dozen followups to do to understand more).
I've commuted home from downtown before, but almost all of the time it was of the variety of commute where every single day I caught the exact same bus at the exact last minute and saw the same thing every day. I'm sure there will still be some of that, but a reasonable goal is to walk down a new street every day and just notice what is going on there.
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