DC.licious.com (Moblog)
pneumatic tube!
Posted on May 03, 2006 #
Nostalgia city! A drive thru teller with a pneumatic tube!
$47.17
Posted on May 03, 2006 #
$47.17 for a single tank of gas. It's like being anywhere else in the world these days.
keepin a jealous eye
Posted on May 03, 2006 #
In the 2 minutes it took to me to get the car this morning, someone pulled over and tried to pick up my wife! Good to know it's not just me thinks she's a hot pregnant girl.
hard for a pimpfant
Posted on April 29, 2006 #
It's a little less hard out there for a pimpfant.
gurgle gurgle
Posted on April 04, 2006 #
Too much coming up. I'll be astonished if I manage the rest of April & May successfully.
too many mason fans
Posted on April 01, 2006 #
The bars are all full. Nowhere in town to go if you want to go out.
George Mason went down. The guys looked rough, but they came to play. The coach looks solid, and the whole university's a kind place.
dc can kiss my ass
Posted on April 01, 2006 #
One wrong turn can cost a guy 45 minutes in traffic. I'm gonna miss the 1st 10 minutes of the GMU - Fla game.
late
Posted on March 23, 2006 #
I just don't understand how I'm unable to get my shit together on time. For all the planning, I am consistently behind. Often I don't try--it's so frustrating to screw it up that it isn't worth the effort. But it puts me in such a bad place to start the day, no breakfast, stress, forgetting shit.
fairfax
Posted on March 21, 2006 #
"Congratulations GMU Patriots
Good luck in the round of 16
From the city of Fairfax"
Durham never did this for us, did they?
bp2: bipartisanship
Posted on March 14, 2006 #
"I'll hug your elephant if you kiss my ass"
bumper politick 1
Posted on March 14, 2006 #
"Fat people are harder to kidnap"
again with GW
Posted on February 03, 2006 #
I spend a disproportionate amount of time in Foggy Bottom.
cop to piper
Posted on February 02, 2006 #
Cop in car to bagpiper on sidewalk, Washington Circle, "That's awesome, man."
I don't believe he was serious.
waiting
Posted on January 20, 2006 #
long time since last post.
heart of washington
Posted on December 26, 2005 #
The Redskins won! They won! They beat the Giants in a great game, and we were there! What a great Hanukkah!
paging the dr
Posted on December 15, 2005 #
Here I am, night following the regression final, on a hospital bed at GW. They're testing for stones and appendix stuff. I don't know if I'm more afraid of those or the possibility that an inability to fart exposed my frail constitution, and it's all an overreaction to gas.
Don't worry, though. I'm 30, and it's high time something broke. Thank Heaven it wasn't a thumb, or you wouldn't even be reading this.
inappropriate use of a tree
Posted on December 05, 2005 #
A 6' blue spruce, full I will grant you, should NOT cost $175.
seen too much
Posted on November 30, 2005 #
In traffic on 66 westbound this morning, and the man in the car ahead was shaving his head. With an electric razor, shaving his bald, middle-aged dome. Once done, he wiped it doown with a handkerchief, which he then used to clean his glasses.
shut up
Posted on October 28, 2005 #
Too many idiots sing on metro.
safety 1st
Posted on October 14, 2005 #
Since I've been in grad school, a member of the administration has been nabbed for kiddie porn, student accounts have been illegally hacked and our data "compromised", and now the university police are being sued for first amendment infringement, apparently after suppressing and arresting a non-violent protestor.
Who knew? Ah yes. We're in Virginia.
overheard at mason
Posted on September 14, 2005 #
"...my Farsi sucks."
(laughter)
"Where are you from?"
"Maryland."
(Laughter)
I love this campus. It's so absurdly multicultural.
donate
Posted on September 07, 2005 #
One place to donate.
hostility
Posted on September 02, 2005 #
With so much going wrong on a large scale (wars, hurricanes), why are people in DC such fucking pricks?
again?
Posted on September 02, 2005 #
Again with the uppity streetpeople? Seriously, I'm becoming that much of a yuppie scum? The guy's got a cart, covered in insulation, a mop, recyclables, and a shiny new laptop with a 15" screen open on his lap, apparently getting wifi from the GW hospital.
quiet before
Posted on August 24, 2005 #
The storm is coming. Already groups of uber-genki coeds (is that word permissible?) are congregating in chant and song.
bums in heat
Posted on August 20, 2005 #
Not just offended, the 30something guy in clean jeans, t-shirt and sneakers, but told me he didn't even need a dollar. People give him 20's, even $100. He didn't want my luck, and in his words, I "understand psychology, but not psychiatry."
I'm glad I live here, or I'd take away the impression that DC was full of bright, educated, self-sufficient bums.
get what you pay for
Posted on August 17, 2005 #
No computer lab in the library. I kid you not.
heat or smell
Posted on August 16, 2005 #
Well, the 97 degree heat has broken, but now Dupont (and maybe the city itself?) just smells like urban b.o.
Nice thing, noticing when the city's air is bad. A good sign overall.
cable guy
Posted on August 14, 2005 #
Left home, watching Matthew Broderick and Jim Carrey, and saw a "Git R Done" sticker on a black Silverado. There's a new cable guy in town.
points 4 originality
Posted on August 09, 2005 #
"Ninjas killed my family. Need $ for kung fu lessons."
"Need $ for beer so 2 women can take me home and molest me."
Points for originality, but I can't say I dug deep for him. I didn't get the feeling he'd truly dedicate himself to the Way. The women maybe.
back and married
Posted on August 02, 2005 #
Back from the DR and will have to do a proper post about the trip. dr.licious, perhaps.
tooi
Posted on May 05, 2005 #
I haven't felt this far from Japan in a while.
la
Posted on April 15, 2005 #
I stand corrected. I'm really enjoying L.A.
representing
Posted on April 01, 2005 #
On metro, working on a midterm, asked by a guy across the way what my role is in military research. Seems he works with Senator Byrd's office with our funding and has the impression anything that's not armor is crap. That what he hears around the Hill at least. I explain adaptability, the need for company commanders to deal with far more than warfighting, and for the military's need to better train for these unknowns. We talk multinational forces and training methods. He isn't argumentative; from the flow he's interested to learn what else is out there, if it's not armor. I hope I've represented us well. By this point, I don't believe in the cop out of "it's my first year" anymore. Much to the boss' credit, I may actually have an idea of what I'm talking about.
last man standing
Posted on February 16, 2005 #
Being the next-to-last guy in the office has me listening to the true last guy singing "you can call me what you want / but my name is veronica" to himself. Out loud. It's time to go.
last man standing
Posted on February 16, 2005 #
Being the next-to-last guy in the office has me listening to the true last guy singing "you can call me what you want / but my name is veronica" to himself. Out loud. It's time to go.
last man standing
Posted on February 16, 2005 #
Being the next-to-last guy in the office has me listening to the true last guy singing "you can call me what you want / but my name is veronica" to himself. Out loud. It's time to go.
quite a term
Posted on January 28, 2005 #
Come this summer, I'm going to have earned a break.
I've accepted 2 research assistantships, both funded, as well as the Army job.
RAship 1:
Leader adaptability research, funded by a military grant focused on training lower-level leaders to take on the demands of the present-day realities of combat (multinational collaboration, guerilla and urban warfare, peacekeeping, etc).
RAship 2:
Top-management team (TMT) research looking at the effects that the behavior of top managers (e.g. CEOs, Directors, EVPs) have on firm and subsidiary performance.
Job:
Analyzing 30-year data on US army officers to determine the effects of person-environment fit on performance and promotion.
Plus 3 classes, 3 or 4 research groups and a couple side projects.
Maybe I took Mama Hahn too seriously.
back to school
Posted on January 27, 2005 #
Oh for Pete's sake. My stats teacher hasn't taught in 3 years or something and can't even get through this lesson. This is bloody ridiculous.
2late
Posted on January 24, 2005 #
So say the Italian medicos.
potomac river
Posted on January 24, 2005 #
It's frozen over in large sheets around the bridges. All choppy and in big circles, at places maybe a foot thick.
starbucks
Posted on January 05, 2005 #
while others travel and find a worldly collage of individuals, I drink decaf in the corner starbucks, and rarely hear english spoken. there is so much about dc that i never see, holed up at home. a gaggle of spanish girls, a towering, lanky african in a titleist cap, a middle eastern couple struggling to communicate. not the best environment for reading, but it reminds me of the city where i live.
starbucks
Posted on January 05, 2005 #
while others travel and find a worldly collage of individuals, I drink decaf in the corner starbucks, and rarely hear english spoken. there is so much about dc that i never see, holed up at home. a gaggle of spanish girls, a towering, lanky african in a titleist cap, a middle eastern couple struggling to communicate. not the best environment for reading, but it reminds me of the city where i live.
this is not a joke
Posted on December 18, 2004 #
The Army is absolutely fascinating. The problems are staggering and the people working on them are astounding.
all through
Posted on December 13, 2004 #
Rough last week of tests, but it's over. Off to sunny Orlando in the morning.
pentagon hazmat
Posted on December 06, 2004 #
Link to the only available online news about the hazmat scare currently going on at the pentagon metro station. The whole station is evacuated and hazmat teams are on site.
Metro is actually announcing that all Yellow Line trains are terminating at Pentagon, and dozens of people are waiting on the platform. I called into work and found out it was closed (as metro's website confirms), but only a handful of the people I told followed me out.
Elsewhere, the Arlington County Fire Department reports the issue is closed.
LSAT
Posted on December 04, 2004 #
Congratulate her--it's over. (No score report for 3 weeks, so don't ask;)
yawn
Posted on November 18, 2004 #
Applicant speech to the program today. If we were looking to hire a slideshow, it might have been a more appropriate presentation.
dad
Posted on November 07, 2004 #
That's the good thing about having friends across time zones. Dad can have a heart attack and I can get commiseration at any hour.
Thanks. He looks better. The surgery went well and he shouldn't need a bypass.
one way to cope
Posted on November 04, 2004 #
Laugh it off? For another 4 years? It'll be tough to keep my head in the sand that long.
hallow's eve
Posted on October 31, 2004 #
On the eve of Halloween we just had people over. So much better than a party. One green curry w/ chicken and two red curries, one called creamy beef & eggplant, and a new one with pork and pumpkin (ok, so it was squash). Yum. In the holiday spirit, sidecars and espresso martinis. (Orange & black, get it?)
hell on heels
Posted on October 26, 2004 #
High Heels race down 17th NW, from a 6-foot high tree branch. The first three out of the box were track stars--arms pumping, weaves flowing, and pumps clacking like mad. From about 20th place back, it was a cooly measured drag show.
I guess the audience to be about 15,000. For a race lasting two minutes at most.
Worth the mob, imho. Especially from a treetop.
austin
Posted on October 22, 2004 #
Shoepal guest post: Mandalay Burmese in Silver Spring = yum. Crab cakes in Naptown w/ Wren = fun. People aren't running over little elves any more. Bittersweet visit to my mid-atlantic childhood. sigh.
kinder, gentler blogspace
Posted on October 21, 2004 #
Seems I may have involved myself in an ugly situation again. As licious has been found out (oh no!), even without identifying information, people (well, at least one, but I presume more) have been offended.
In the entirely altruistic effort towards the greater blog harmony, I have self-censored a previous post.
On an unrelated note, I may no longer have a weekend job. Just a rumor at the moment; confirmation pending.
randomusic
Posted on October 14, 2004 #
Random and entertaining.
Gogol Bordello / Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at the Black Cat.
Again: random.
1st exam
Posted on October 07, 2004 #
A in stats. :-)
encouragement
Posted on September 29, 2004 #
Yet another vote of confidence for GMU. Email received on the night before our first test:
Hey guys,
Good luck on your 611 test tomorrow. The first test of grad school can be a little scary, but it will be good to get it out of the way!!
Take care,
Kate
could
Posted on September 28, 2004 #
I think I can
I think I can
house of poo
Posted on September 25, 2004 #
Pipe burst in the restaurant last night. It's a chronic problem, and we had to send everyone home and cancel all reservations. Except for losing out on a few bills, it was perfect. I don't know how else I'll get all this reading done.
back in the game
Posted on September 20, 2004 #
Oop--excited again.
back to reality
Posted on September 18, 2004 #
They've got a full staff at the restaurant again. My earnings should be unspectacular once again. May make a decision to pare down my responsibilities easier, though.
shoot me.
Posted on September 13, 2004 #
I've moved cubes. And it's as bad as they warned. Blahblahblahblah-dorkity-blah. How the hell am I supposed to concentrate??
stat
Posted on September 09, 2004 #
Not sure this is really that difficult. Not that I'm complaining; I suppose I'm just surprised at how slow this class is going.
fight or flight
Posted on August 30, 2004 #
Oop, nope, anxious again.
joy
Posted on August 28, 2004 #
I could cry. The building's off the market and we're staying.
excited
Posted on August 25, 2004 #
Excited about grad school.
(Not much for consistency, am I.)
krispy on dupont
Posted on August 24, 2004 #
Not only is today the opening of the Dupont Circle Krispy Kreme, but they've got Donut Dancers. Dressed in leotards, wearing donut cushions around their waists, women ages 19 to 53 are dancing on the sidewalk to promote their fried dough.
summer of 004
Posted on August 23, 2004 #
Another long weekend of partying and eating and drinking and lots of friends. What a rough life.
augh!
Posted on August 17, 2004 #
Afraid. Afraid of grad school.
prince!
Posted on August 13, 2004 #
@ Prince!!!
wednesday
Posted on August 04, 2004 #
Great weekend.
Tough to be back home.
cat's out
Posted on August 01, 2004 #
Now that the secrecy part's over, I'm really damn happy.
montreal 1
Posted on August 01, 2004 #
The Montreal aiport is complete shit!!! Over an hour wandering through a 300-person line to a slow line thru immigration to an ugly, dirty, messy airport.
After that, the Europcar office was closed--which we found out after taking the shuttle to our (gorgeous, mind you) little inn in Vieux Montreal.
Fabulous dinner at La Ferreira, but too exhausted after for anything more...
Now it's Sunday.
tacoma
Posted on July 23, 2004 #
From the "Buns Master Bakery" sign to the "Dick for Congress: He Works for Jobs" poster, Tacoma is a silly place.
american pie
Posted on July 20, 2004 #
Hey, rest of the world: you should see this carrot cake. Two chopsticks to hold it up and four hands to set it down flat. It's just one piece--not a whole cake--and two girls are sharing it after a full dinner.
it's like whack.a.mole
Posted on July 20, 2004 #
Sometimes I think I find ways to travel just to shock Shoepal and other friends/family.
In Washington, near Tacoma, at the moment. Collecting data at Fort Lewis for a study on developing leaders in the Army. Interesting so far; tales of incompetent commanding officers and deployment to/from Iraq abound.
sushiko, russia house
Posted on July 14, 2004 #
Very good sushi, great service (Cheryl). Decent sake (Harushika; from Nara, I believe). Real wasabi. Mmmm...
Russia House has great vodka. Zagowska (or something like that, from Poland) with a couple lemon wedges, on the rocks.
left my heart
Posted on July 14, 2004 #
In San Francisco, I spent a lot of days in shorts, t-shirt and a ball cap carting books to the post office. I made my own hours, worked from home, and really didn't like it.
I've now got a job that I like better, can dress business-casual for, and still more or less make my own hours. I found I like having an office out of the house, so long as I'm not obligated to be there at a set time every day and have flexibility as to when I go. I like the separation of work space and home, much like living space and bedroom. (No reading for work in bed; on the couch, the deck or the dinner table if in the apartment.)
So I'm back to working two jobs (restaurant and research) and the pace is much more familiar. The office demands that I'm present, that I get along with colleagues, communicate well with supervisors, do what's asked of me, and show sufficient initiative to do a little more besides. Restaurant demands that I know the food and drink and that I charm the customers while remaining professional. Admittedly, the latter's standards are pretty low, but the ease of meeting expectations in the second job is a relief. (It was more stressful as a primary job, since it's not my passion and came out as a depressing professional/achievement identity.)
insect in a box
Posted on July 06, 2004 #
Goin bug-eyed with all this reading. New information with nowhere ready-made in my simple, food-service brain for all these words to go. Endogenous? Isomorphic? I thought this was soft science I signed up for...
in the cube
Posted on June 28, 2004 #
"If you are in the business of conflict resolution, you must expect to be in it for the long haul. If you are not prepared for this type of commitment, then stay out--and learn to live with your individual and collective consciences."
Lt. General R. A. Dallaire
"Command Experiences in Rwanda"
From "The Human in Command," 2000
licious3
Posted on June 21, 2004 #
I seem to have a cubicle.
6 foot $$$$
Posted on June 19, 2004 #
Seriously, 6'4" honey in matching green bra and thong, a solid 240lbs, walking up 7th St NW just outside Chinatown. Yells to a passing SUV of boys, "you knew you'd see anything out here, here it is."
metroluxury
Posted on June 17, 2004 #
Early pm rush hour on the red line, and trains have been stalled for over 20 minutes. The first shows up and passengers "cram" onto it. (Trust me, you could fit 25 more people per train even without the little guys in white gloves.) On the next train, there's enough room to park a bus in the aisle.
Pure decadence of space.
pandalized
Posted on June 16, 2004 #
Ha! Not only did the Lakers lose ignominiously, but the lousy street pandas are being vandalized. The one on Connecticut and R has its own bicycle cop now, which is about the silliest sight you'll see in Dupont.
ronnie's drive-by
Posted on June 11, 2004 #
Late to a research direction-setting meeting this morning. Reagan's motorcade came by and shot down my plans for taking the bus. I stuck around, figuring it's as good an excuse as any, and heard the ubiquitous comments of "what a perfect time for The Terrorists to attack (nervous chuckle)."
Lest y'all misinterpret a previous moblog entry, my anger and impotent frustration is directed at the atmosphere of fear in DC and the targeted nature of our hostile government. Never at the messenger.
fuxk
Posted on June 09, 2004 #
Airplane carrying the governor of Connecticut flew into airspace over National Airport w/o permission and they evacuated the Capitol. My bud's gf called up crying "I Love You, I Love You" while fleeing the building and had us running to the car to get her. God damn it.
dupont fauna
Posted on June 09, 2004 #
Cicadas are gone, but the fucking pandas are still cursing the streets with their horrible, cheap presence. We've got a possum wandering our streets now. And the black squirrels still freak me out.
house o' cards
Posted on June 08, 2004 #
Rumor has it the chef is out with a bad back all week. And the whole restaurant is just doing the cafe menu while he's gone. Besides not being able to pay my bills... well, what is there besides that? Oh. The food. Cafe's good stuff, but what if you had white-tablecloth reservations and found a burger, dog and roast chicken your main choices?
natsukashikunai
Posted on June 04, 2004 #
A double espresso, an overnight bag and the a.m. commuter train. Nostalgic, really.
seriously. seriously?
Posted on May 28, 2004 #
No, really. Everyone quit. 2 of us remain for June; in July, 1 returns. Best part is the new Desperation Hires. One, training in the dining room for some reason, confuses Chardonnay with White Zinfandel. The other I've heard speak extensively on his 2 master's degrees, but haven't yet seen a decent cocktail emerge from his delicate hands.
Sorry guys. I'm sure this is overly harsh; I'm clearly no bastion of expertise myself. And while it's nothing personal against any of the many totally new-to-the-business recruits, it's odd to see such great food delivered by such a stumbling business.
sights & sounds
Posted on May 27, 2004 #
Around Dupont these days the three most frequent sights are: (1) the fugly new panda "art", (2) the guy with the 'Catholic Clergy Molest Boys Worldwide' sign, and (3) cicadas. I have yet to hear a peep out of the former two, but the red-eyed latter more than make up for them.
"At this time, all metrorail trains are operating at or near schedule."
Palenot
Posted on May 25, 2004 #
Everyone quit. As of May 31, there will be 2 managers and 2 employees.
family dynamics
Posted on May 21, 2004 #
"Moooommmm, Beth's trying to topologically sort me."
My sister graduates this weekend with a major in Math & a minor in Computer Science. My brother is 2 years into a PhD in CS and starts an internship at NASA in a couple weeks. Family life is weird.
southwest 509
Posted on May 20, 2004 #
The Babbling Brooke of 1918 is unflappable in her drone of small talk--even ignored, she proceeds to chatter across me to the uninterested fellow to my right. Southwest's no-frills service has established a new level on the playing field for austerity: no headphones/audio, let alone a tv; not even a tray table. BB is now fiddling with the zipper of the woman in 3C; it's stuck, and she's condemned to 2 more hours of the cross-legged bathroom boogie. The Poisonwood Bible is surprisingly good--and moving--and is all that's forestalled insanity on this free flight to San Diego.
washingtonienne
Posted on May 19, 2004 #
Check out the sexploits of an Illinois Senator and the Washingtonienne.
yum
Posted on May 17, 2004 #
Mmmmm... Chateau Beychevelles 1982.
Mmmmmm... $275 x 20%...
joementum at rest=joenertia?
Posted on May 13, 2004 #
Lieberman came to dinner tonight, with family and requisite Large Man With Earpiece.
out of my league
Posted on May 05, 2004 #
I can't afford my own life anymore. For the first time, I'm looking at Life On Layaway and it fucking sucks.
I can feel the repercussions of living life in my 20's to the fullest, only to be besieged later by the coming responsibilities of my 30's. I still wouldn't go back and change things if I could, but ask me in 3 years and I may have you a different tune.
fitting closure
Posted on May 03, 2004 #
Watched the metro close its doors and pull away. Fitting end; started this morning by actually missing my return flight from Heathrow. Made it to work on time, but didn't even earn enough there to offset the doubling back for the forgotten passport.
crash and burn
Posted on April 25, 2004 #
Things look bad at the restaurant. Atmosphere of impending exodus.
fire
Posted on April 23, 2004 #
Huge billows of smoke in the streets of DC are very disconcerting.
accosted
Posted on April 22, 2004 #
Walking down Connecticut from work to Gazuza, talking on the Sidekick, earpiece in.
"Do you know how obnoxious that is?" I am asked, scornfully, by a passerby, walking the opposite direction.
"No, I don't."
And I still don't. Is talking on the phone in public considered rude by anyone? Really?
in line
Posted on April 17, 2004 #
Waiting. For a drink. Behind an order for Henessey and coke. With no credit card.
fun?
Posted on April 17, 2004 #
What's fun? I may try reacquainting myself.
fun?
Posted on April 17, 2004 #
lemons
Posted on April 10, 2004 #
lemonade.
zaytinya
Posted on April 01, 2004 #
Zaytinya on 8th & G NW for a congratulations dinner tonight. Energy and professional people, and for the first time in a long time, it feels, I'm into the pace of it. Great flavors, interesting eastern Mediterranean menu.
I feel the pull toward New York and have been since hearing from Teachers College (i.e. Columbia). Have to be responsible about the decision, but to admit to the emotion, New York's winning the preseason.
party on, wayne-san
Posted on March 30, 2004 #
It's like a party in Ha Ahn Wah, the Asian food mart up in Silver Spring. Last chance to shop here for a while, and I'm shamelessley on a binge: ocha and oolong, rambutan in syrup, tempura batter, kakipi, Karl, miso, pokky, roasted black and regular sesame seeds and sesame oil, unagi, fresh peppers and herbs... Thai eggplant??
Have to have people over on Sunday now. It's just more than I can make use of on my own.
The background music, 70's and 80's US pop, is the perfect soundtrack for this bonanza:
"I'm all right / Don't nobody worry about me..."
and there were 4.
Posted on March 29, 2004 #
Duke. Final Four.
8.67?!?
Posted on March 24, 2004 #
The US is still great, but $8.67 for a couple of chicken breasts?
love of country
Posted on March 03, 2004 #
The US is great. Not only can you try clothes on before you buy them, but you can return them!
mandalay
Posted on February 29, 2004 #
Wow. Mandalay in College Park is amazing Burmese food. Five different noodles with tofu?!? Mmmmmm...
licious actually goes out
Posted on February 29, 2004 #
Doubled regular liquor sales on Friday. Manager thinks it has something to do with everyone leaving that new Passion movie needing to knock back a few. Worked near exhaustion, I had to go out for a few hours afterward to shake off the evening. Accompanied by three young waitresses and "everybody's favorite waiter" in DC, we hit the local no-cover titty bar, 3 different apartments and eventually three cushions on a floor in Arlington.
back @ work
Posted on February 20, 2004 #
Had been given Friday night off; punishment for bitching about all the food running? Server got food poisoning (he yakked all over himself on the drive in), so Hi Ho, Hi Ho...
1 reason why
Posted on February 13, 2004 #
Why I hate food running? Line cooks treating me like I'm not only ignorant but stupid. (I am, of course, "front of the house.") And mini-chefs with the buding attitude of another Kitchen Napolean.
haircut, and get a new job
Posted on February 12, 2004 #
A feeling like a new box of tissues, like new shoes. Applications are all mailed out, got a parking permit for 6 full months. Even got the haircut.
Next: A new job.
running, circles
Posted on January 30, 2004 #
I offered to help out at the restaurant and am now food running. It has indeed improved my knowledge of the food, though I'm now running 4 shifts this week, and three next.
Remembering a book I read during junior year of college, I focus on parallels between climbing the stairs and improving my life; polishing the silver and...well, same thing. You know, run-of-the-mill Be Here Now stuff, right? Instant gratification finally did come, when I got to explain who Mr. Whipple was to the busboy tonight. Thanks, Ludacris, for making the kid interested. Sharing culture is a joy. ;)
busted.
Posted on January 07, 2004 #
In RadioShack, trying to negotiate a fair price for repairs on my PC, as two guys are dragged to the back, cuffed for shoplifting.
yahoooo!!!
Posted on January 02, 2004 #
Great score on the GRE!
Must've been a fluke. ;-D
deutschland ho
Posted on December 18, 2003 #
Off to Germany. Dave says Guten Abend. I say potahto.
mentalblock
Posted on December 11, 2003 #
At the hostess stand, trying to remember how to write my old addresses in Japan...and I can't even manage a single city name. A Japanese chef at my table, and I'm too shy to even mention I've lived in Japan.
commuting joy
Posted on November 21, 2003 #
Still one of my favorites among life's little pleasures: arriving at the station just in time for the train
conversant!
Posted on November 19, 2003 #
I speak Japanese pretty well!
Overjoyed at easily impressing a telephone interviewer with my skillz, yet I still doubt I'll ever get past the culturally inappropriate nature of declaring oneself as capable of speaking Japanese fluently.
(Not that I do or ever did.)
at home in d.c.
Posted on November 14, 2003 #
Secret Service motorcades and pretzels on the corner. Bus stops advertising political agendas more than commercial ones.
Chopper takes off from the backyard of the White House, and I fantasize about the Bureau offering me a job after I stymie a terrorist assault.
This is what I keep referring to as 'coming home'?
The Monument, the Smithsonian, the Redskins... It really is.
shorts
Posted on November 05, 2003 #
5th of November, and it's too hot and muggy for jeans. Warm, southerly breeze and leaves and pumpkins still litter the neighborhood.
north adams, ma
Posted on November 02, 2003 #
They lost my bag. On a direct flight from BWI to Albany? Come on, people. I had on only a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers due to this crazy warm spell, and had to rely on the Gap to get me dressed for the dinner, and thankfully thr bag did arrive at 3am the next day.
A fantabulous wedding, relaxed and enjoyable, full of warm and impressive individuals. A great juxtaposition of those once similar to me; six years later, we're not so far apart as I'd once thought.
minor epiphany
Posted on October 28, 2003 #
I catch my eyes looking and it must be that I've flipped back across the majority-minority divide. Straight among straights again, white among whites; citizen among citizens.
There's often less solidarity on this side, but the burden of expectation is a lot lighter. In my last corporate job in Tokyo I was placed on probation ("next time you may be terminated") for a single day's tardiness. It was made clear by (Western) management that my greatest breach was representing poorly on La Raza Blanca.
Here in DC, I'm not sure who I represent, when I stumble or when I shine.
barblog
Posted on October 27, 2003 #
Sippin on Citron and sour on a rainy Monday night. Clocks have just been turned back, and it's gloomy and cold out.
The bar remains empty, but it's early. I am reading the Economist and picking wax off the marble.
enjoy better sex
Posted on October 20, 2003 #
"Enjoy Better Sex" read the ads on Metro bus stops all along Connecticut Ave, promoting legalization and taxation of marijuana.
soblog
Posted on October 16, 2003 #
There it was....the first good feeling I've noticed wash over all afternoon. Someone simply recognized me from before.
Apparently, moving to a new city is still a lonely affair.
barBlog
Posted on October 11, 2003 #
$150 tip. From one couple. Could've been a much worse first shift behind the bar.
annals of power
Posted on October 10, 2003 #
Even entrances to the metro in DC have an atmosphere of dark portent. Especially with the escalators are out, walking three stories deep into a gaping concrete chasm.
Cafe Sofia
Posted on October 03, 2003 #
At the bar in Cafe Sofia in Adams Morgan. 6:35pm on Friday, and it's already half full--tonight with 18 Peace Corps alums, all of whom served in Bulgaria. The music? Bulgarian rock. The best selling beer? Half liter Zagorkas. The bartender? A 10, and, yes, she's Bulgarian, too.
I'm gonna love working in this place.
welcome to muralan
Posted on September 26, 2003 #
Driving east to Annapolis, there's a 40+ foot power boat straddling the median between 97 and 50 east. Traffic's backed up just a few hundred yards, but the look on the faces of the towing guys is priceless.
blackout
Posted on September 21, 2003 #
Isabel failed to deliver a visually exciting evening, her aftermath is still a thing of beauty. The massive tree on R split in two, totalled a car across the street, and banged up a 3rd story facade. Annapolis has sections without even water (well water's not clean), and people got together tonight in Columbia at the house of only Marylanders I know with power.
happy birthday
Posted on September 17, 2003 #
It was a birthday in New York. I had unagi, and tried a bunch of Italian wines. I accomplished a few things off the never-ending list, and I ate at Nobu for the first time. I'm now 28.
breakin the law
Posted on September 16, 2003 #
Ha! I live blocks away from the first convenience store where I bought beer!
It's across the street from the law office I interned with, so in my khakis and green button-down, I blended right in with the faceless DC professional mob.
back on the grey dog
Posted on September 10, 2003 #
People smell.
christine says
Posted on September 09, 2003 #
"New York has a pickle problem."
the newark wholesale market
Posted on September 08, 2003 #
The first thing noteworthy on the trip from DC to NY is that the hand driers in the bathroom are made in Cornella de Llobregat, Barcelona. A veritable Pulitzer of breaking news we are. Turn on Licious, and turn on the spectacular world of public bathroom manufacturing.