What's Happening in Seattle this Week

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Networking: Girl Power Hour, Sept 18th, $15, celebrating its one-year anniversary.  This is about 50% party mixer and 50% professional networking.  For this occasion, the boys are invited.  Have a cocktail, socialize, and make a few new friends. Health: Symptom Management for Cancer Survivors, Sept 24th, free, following cancer treatment, survivors face new challenges of identifying, understanding and living with the unwelcome aftereffects. With education and support, many survivors are able to take charge of their health, managing or even preventing such problems.  Children's: The Green Sheep, month of October, for young?uns, ages 1-4, $13.  According to the gossip on toddlers' blogs, this one is all the rage.  In this interactive exhibit, the little ones look for that elusive green sheep among a crowd of colored poseurs.  *  Also, Kiddie Kabaret, ongoing, $10.  The folks at Circus Contraption retool their show for the kid set, with aerial acts, sing-a-longs, and animal-inspired acts.  Adults will probably dig this show just as much.  *  Also, The Children's Museum, Metropolitan Market opens a 740-square- foot kiddie store, where the little ones can take over shopping duties and purchase the family's groceries for the week. Seminar: Handwriting Analysis, Evaluating How People Cope with Change, Sept 20th, $60.  Learn how to separate the resilient from the rigid at this seminar, predicting how people adapt to changing circumstances.  Go with an open mind, but keep your skepticism available.  Graphology in general suffers from a lack of empirical evidence, and the British Psychological Society ranks graphology as predictable as astrology. Education: Let's Go FSBO, Sept 18th, free, on how to sell your home yourself.  With an average house price still north of $400K, putting those six points back into your pocket can be pretty tempting.  If you're willing to do the work, but need some hand-holding at the critical moments, this could be for you.  Learn how to price, attract buyers, negotiate, and navigate the paperwork. Festival: Seattle Greek Festival, Sep 19-21, free.  Go for the baklava.  This is a family-friendly event, with wine tasting and cooking demos, plus you know how those Greeks love to dance.  *  Also, Freemont Ockoberfest, with the kitsch of chainsaw pumpkin carving, CityDog's cover dog modeling context, Ride-n-Glide BMX stunt team, and more.  With all of the beer served, they better have a zillion porta-potties lined up. Personal Finances: Boomer Retirement Bootcamp, Sept 22, $11.  You're looking at the end of your working career, so the income drops, but the bills and liabilities increase.  Get answers to the big questions on when to draw Social Security, paying off mortgages, buying long-term care insurance, estate planning, and so on.  Avoid the scary prospect of having run out of working time while running out of money. Science: Solar Tour, Sept 19th, $3.  If the galaxy seems just a little too immense for you, then take a trip to our neighboring planets.  Bellevue Community College opens its planetarium again, with its super-duper digital projector, with the best trip you'll ever get without leaving orbit. Health: Healthy Parks, Healthy You, Sept 20th, $2.  The good folks of the city are worried about your health, so they put together the resources to keep you lean and in shape.  At this health fair, vendors come together for blood pressure checks, healthy snack info, nutrition and diabetes information, glucose checks, affordable health insurance info, and so on.  As long as you're down there, do the best free thing for your health, and take a walk around the park. Organization: Minority Executive Directors Coalition, an organization with noble goals, perhaps even idealistic and biting off more than they can chew, but a person can't fault their mission or their passion.  Plus, helping to shape strong and involved leaders benefits the entire community.	We're a Bunch of Whiners: Sometimes, we just can't seem to be happy no matter what. Gas Prices and Traffic:  It seems that we want both cheap gas and speed limit commutes and complain endlessly when one or the other is out of whack.  One silver lining to $4/gallon gas was that it cleared off the freeway.  For years, Metro was trying to boost ridership.  When it got the big ridership bump it was always crying for, then it was complaining about the budget-busting cost of diesel. Affordable Housing and the Quality of Life: When the average house price nears half a million in the city, we complain how it's beyond the range of the working class.  Then, when more affordable housing is built, we complain about crowding and loss of neighborhood character.  When families move way out into the 'burbs to find a house they can afford, then we complain about the consequences of long commutes and carbon footprints.  We complain about the cost of the bureaucracy of city regulations, but hate the cookie-cutter houses developers would otherwise throw up. Mental Recession: According to one of McCain's advisors, we're a nation of whiners.  Supposedly, one percent growth isn't too bad.  Globalization has brought an export boom, but we only wallow in bad news.  According to advisors, those other issues, of job loses, credit meltdowns - those are irritating side issues.  Cool Video: Will It Blend: Chuck Norris.  These guys have an entire run of videos, of putting wacky stuff into their power blender.

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