I started my temp job in Fells Point last week. I haven’t had much of a chance to explore it, yet. As a Homicide<\/i> fan I think it’s quite cool to be working in Fells Point. Indeed, I drove down Bayliss Street just the other day.<\/p>\n
I’m not supposed to talk about my job — I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement — and it’s really rather mundane. I will say that it involves something medical, and I’ve found myself playing Greg House with the paperwork, trying to come up with a diagnosis that would cover the symptoms presented. Of course, I don’t actually see<\/i> patients — I just have spreadsheets e-mailed to me — and it’s become obvious to me that these aren’t real patients, as a real patient with the problems I see in the spreadsheets would probably be dead a dozen times over. I will say that I think my computer is retarded, and I really don’t<\/i> like using Outlook for e-mail.<\/p>\n
The company is housed in the old National Bohemian<\/a> warehouse. Across the street is the old brewery. Indeed, the neighborhood is called Brewer’s Hill. It’s an old industrial neighborhood — there are a number of empty and gutted warehouses nearby. This whole area, once a sign of urban blight and the decay of the American inner city, is in the process of transforming itself into something new. Just a few block down stands the 1st Mariner Bank tower, which stands out like an obelisk in the middle of a neighborhood.<\/p>\n I’ve had Natty Boh<\/a> — the local nickname for National Bohemian, mentioned on Homicide<\/i> a few times — once, and I don’t remember it as being very good. But then, I’m not a fan of the beer style, and it’s not even brewed in Baltimore anymore.<\/p>\n (My grandmother, when I told her about where I worked, said to me at dinner the other night, “Why, the whole neighborhood must still smell like beer. I bet you can smell it in the warehouse.” I tried to tell her otherwise, that’s the building’s been gutted and remodelled and nothing’s been brewed on Brewer’s Hill in about twenty years, then gave up when she insisted that I was absolutely wrong. It wasn’t worth the mental agonies.)<\/p>\n The commute is fun — beltway and interstate, and three interstate merges — and it takes me through the harbor tunnel. I’ve discovered that I can basically set my own hours — if I want to work from 7 to 3, that’s allowed, and I may start doing that. The idea of getting off in the early afternoon has a certain appeal after years of working from 8 in the morning to 6:30, 7, sometimes 8 or 9 at night. Get off work at three, explore the neighborhood, find the Homicide<\/i> squad house and take pictures — I think I might do just that this week.<\/p>\n I’m not sure how long the position will last — the agency said three to four weeks — and I’m still submitting resumes to other firms in Baltimore. In fact, I’ve got today’s classifieds to go through.<\/p>\n So, to sum it up. Fells Point. Nice building, in the middle of a generally blighted area that’s showing signs of revitalization. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started my temp job in Fells Point last week. I haven’t had much of a chance to explore it, yet. As a Homicide fan I think it’s quite cool to be working in Fells Point. Indeed, I drove down Bayliss Street just the other day. I’m not supposed to talk about my job —Continue reading “On Fells Point”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[424,1105,4124],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-baltimore","tag-elder-health","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}