So there's this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it's hard to make friends in Seattle. Now I hate to break it to you, but it's hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. LIke somehow, it's really, really hard to make friends? Unclear.

But it's enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a tech place), that there's even a <a title="The Seattle Freeze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze" target="_blank">wikipedia entry</a>--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page.

The Seattle local public radio, <a title="KPLU and the Seattle Freeze" href="http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt" target="_blank">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a>.

So what's a girl like me to do?

I am working on making friends in Seattle. I'm well on my way to stealing all of my sister's friends. I have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area and I am busy putting myself out there.

That's the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can't wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans. You have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in.