Making history

After hours and hours of driving through the pouring rain and flooded streets to get to Bastyr, there was even more news of flooding when I got home. Today's almost 4 inches of rainfall make it the second highest in Seattle history. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what Seattle's annual rainfall was and so looked it up on Wikepedia.com.

I didn't find what I was looking for, but I learned something else--Seattle was raked the most literate city in the country in a research study by Central Connecticut State University. Census Bureau data also shows Seattle to be the mot educated city in the U.S. with close to 50% of those over 25 having completed a bachelor's degree or higher.

I love to read. All of my friends love to read. And I've always considered myself lucky to live in a place with many forward-thinking individuals. So, I guess it shouldn't come as a big surprise how much importance people here place on learning and self-improvement.

I guess I'm a little proud--not of the number of people with formal degrees (although I value higher education myself, I don't think intelligence and higher education are synonymous). I'm proud of the love of learning that seems to be a value of this city.