Friday night I went out with some friends as "m&m's" It was fun, and we ended up at two parties but dont ask me where, I just followed the candy.
I havent done my worst attempt feature in a while, this week's came at the very end of the night when i was getting in a taxi. One man walked over to the taxi and goes "mmm girl I like what i'm seeing, mmm nice legs.." and then just as he's about to add what i'm sure is another sleezy or creepy line katie comes over to get in the cab and goes "oh no, Get the F out of the cab" shoves him out of the way, slams the door and we are off.
Sat night was good too because Jenn was in town! We went to some party up in tennley town, and played card games all night till the keg was done and we walked to the dancing crab! I was so excited because I've always wanted to go there because i liked the name. Turns out noone goes there and I dont have a desire to return. oh well we had fun anyway. Also the party was NOT dress up, but some people assumed that since it was halloween weekend they'd come dressed up, so it was hilarious when the first costumed guest arrived and was all embarrassed and was like "noone told me this wasnt dress up". It reminded me of legally blond.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I dont even know
today I was driving down 295 kinda stuck in traffic when I hear a honk. I look up, and sure enough its the pickup truck directly to the right of me with an older gentleman driving. Then I notice he is holding a hand written sign that reads "Pretty Lady". I smiled, changed lanes, and drove off.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
NYC Weekend part 1
So this weekend peter and I went different ways, he played a tournament in Siberia (wisconsin) and I headed to the Big Apple.
I'll split the post into 2 posts way too much happened over the weekend to write about everything.
First off I'd like to say that I am the greatest wing girl in the history of wing girls. I successfully helped TWO of my friends simultaneously on two separate floors of the bar!
Friday night we went to chelsea to meet up with some of my highschool friends. (emily, melissa, andreea and andreea's bf scott) Jlau and Geller came out too. It amused me greatly that we were in the meat packing district. Anyway at 1 am Leslie and I went to the rooftop to call tristan to wish her a happy birthday (since she was currently in central time so midnight to her). I dialed and it began ringing....before her voicemail came on two charming australian guys swooped in. I think my voicemail to tristan went something like "happy birthday, this is rachel, leslie would have said happy birthday too, but she's busy talking to a hot guy". Since they sounded like new zelanders I dubbed them Brett and Jermaine.
Anyway while i was wing girling and giving leslie space I pretended to text someone on my iphone when this guy came up to me with the bad attempt of the week
Guy: can I ask you a favor? can you show me your iphone artists a thru c?
Me: sure, but i havent fully uploaded all my songs yet since the phone is new
Guy: ok well A-C is lame what else do you have (scrolls through) Oooh Frank Sinatra?
Me: oh yeah, as time goes by, i'm on a casablanca kick since i recently saw it for the first time
Guy: Was it with your boyfriend
me: yeah
Guy: so this conversation is pretty much over isnt it?
Me: yeah
The bar closed and the Aussie guys put us in a limo and sent us home.
We got home and Leslie's roommate Laura gave us an impromptu concert at 4 am. She was soooo good. She gave me her demo cd and i'm totally obsessed with it. I cant wait for the full one to come out.
more tomorrow...
I'll split the post into 2 posts way too much happened over the weekend to write about everything.
First off I'd like to say that I am the greatest wing girl in the history of wing girls. I successfully helped TWO of my friends simultaneously on two separate floors of the bar!
Friday night we went to chelsea to meet up with some of my highschool friends. (emily, melissa, andreea and andreea's bf scott) Jlau and Geller came out too. It amused me greatly that we were in the meat packing district. Anyway at 1 am Leslie and I went to the rooftop to call tristan to wish her a happy birthday (since she was currently in central time so midnight to her). I dialed and it began ringing....before her voicemail came on two charming australian guys swooped in. I think my voicemail to tristan went something like "happy birthday, this is rachel, leslie would have said happy birthday too, but she's busy talking to a hot guy". Since they sounded like new zelanders I dubbed them Brett and Jermaine.
Anyway while i was wing girling and giving leslie space I pretended to text someone on my iphone when this guy came up to me with the bad attempt of the week
Guy: can I ask you a favor? can you show me your iphone artists a thru c?
Me: sure, but i havent fully uploaded all my songs yet since the phone is new
Guy: ok well A-C is lame what else do you have (scrolls through) Oooh Frank Sinatra?
Me: oh yeah, as time goes by, i'm on a casablanca kick since i recently saw it for the first time
Guy: Was it with your boyfriend
me: yeah
Guy: so this conversation is pretty much over isnt it?
Me: yeah
The bar closed and the Aussie guys put us in a limo and sent us home.
We got home and Leslie's roommate Laura gave us an impromptu concert at 4 am. She was soooo good. She gave me her demo cd and i'm totally obsessed with it. I cant wait for the full one to come out.
more tomorrow...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hockey and Beer
I went to two Caps Flyers game this weekend. They were both fun, but clearly the friday night one was better. We rocked the red and was probably the most exciting game I've ever been to, plus jordan bought me and julie matching Semin Jersey shirts :) I love it!
also we tried a new bar this weekend. Old Dominion Brew House. I had read about it a bunch, but none of us had been there so for Peter and Jamie's bday we went. It was pretty empty, but we brought a lot of people so we took over a room and it was a lot of fun. The beer is mostly thier own brand which I like. Especially the Aviation Beer. We ended up getting Beer Towers. I think as a party we got almost 10 plus about half the people just got thier own beers b/c they like specific beers. I highly recommend this bar for a big group if you dont care if the rest of the bar is empty. And here is a pic of the beer tower

And the bad attempt for the week (after being asked to dance with a guy with a umd gymnastics shirt on)
Guy: So I'll see you sunday?
Me: Ummmmm no
Guy (creepy nod): I'll see you in spirit
also we tried a new bar this weekend. Old Dominion Brew House. I had read about it a bunch, but none of us had been there so for Peter and Jamie's bday we went. It was pretty empty, but we brought a lot of people so we took over a room and it was a lot of fun. The beer is mostly thier own brand which I like. Especially the Aviation Beer. We ended up getting Beer Towers. I think as a party we got almost 10 plus about half the people just got thier own beers b/c they like specific beers. I highly recommend this bar for a big group if you dont care if the rest of the bar is empty. And here is a pic of the beer tower

And the bad attempt for the week (after being asked to dance with a guy with a umd gymnastics shirt on)
Guy: So I'll see you sunday?
Me: Ummmmm no
Guy (creepy nod): I'll see you in spirit
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Stolen cars, sports, and bars...that about sums up my weekend
Sat Laura and I went to the georgetown uconn basketball game, bar louie to watch the packers game, back to the verizon center for the celtics game, then fado for the patriots game. It was an intense and awesome day.
The most amusing part came when we sat down to watch the packers game. This group of mid thirty's guys started standing infront of us. The one lady with them got them to move out of our line of sight of the TV, and in return we offered them our extra seats at our table. One of the guys really apprecited this. so much so that he sat down and spent the next couple hours talking to us and even bought mike a shot of some mystery drink.
The guy (and his group) were pretty drunk when they got there, but their stories were the best part. I guess in order to get to the game they drove a car that didnt have any keys nor did it have a spot for a key anymore on the drivers side...their words exactly were that they "acquired" a car. WHAT? I dont want to know this! The shoes the guy was wearing evidently came from inside the car.
also, The guy loved my green shirt so much that he had the girl come over and show me her irish tattoo...on her butt.
Also my favorite bad attempt was when laura and I were sitting at fado way later. Two guys come up to us, one of which was kinda falling all over the place. I was kinda laughing at him and his friend noticed this. He looks at me, shrugs with a "when in rome" expression, and then gives me his best "hey baby".
The most amusing part came when we sat down to watch the packers game. This group of mid thirty's guys started standing infront of us. The one lady with them got them to move out of our line of sight of the TV, and in return we offered them our extra seats at our table. One of the guys really apprecited this. so much so that he sat down and spent the next couple hours talking to us and even bought mike a shot of some mystery drink.
The guy (and his group) were pretty drunk when they got there, but their stories were the best part. I guess in order to get to the game they drove a car that didnt have any keys nor did it have a spot for a key anymore on the drivers side...their words exactly were that they "acquired" a car. WHAT? I dont want to know this! The shoes the guy was wearing evidently came from inside the car.
also, The guy loved my green shirt so much that he had the girl come over and show me her irish tattoo...on her butt.
Also my favorite bad attempt was when laura and I were sitting at fado way later. Two guys come up to us, one of which was kinda falling all over the place. I was kinda laughing at him and his friend noticed this. He looks at me, shrugs with a "when in rome" expression, and then gives me his best "hey baby".
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Awesome weekend!
Hey, remember that time the red sox won the world series??? yeah, I do too. and it was AWESOME. Yesterday I spent 10 hours in union pub watching the pats kick ass 52-7 and then in a tight game the red sox pulled through and held onto their lead. I admit, i got nervous. I made myself feel sick, but I guess that just made it extra exciting when they won and the entire bar was filled with sox fans. I cannot put into words how excited I am.
Sat night We got all dressed up, I was wonder woman. Eventually I'll post pictures, but pretty much I looked exactly like Wonder Woman.
Friday night was an awesome. I havent written up a "bad attempt" in a while, but thats because we havent gotten any awesome ones in a while since its been a while since we had girls night. Anyway, we were at madhatter and Tristan and I went to the ladies room, and we come back and Laura and Kaite are sitting on the bench and this old man (like 80) is standing hunched over them with his arms around both of them telling them how they shouldnt be a wallflower and pretty girls like our group should be getting the guys. He leaves and we all chat for a while. Then he walks over to the group of coeds next to us and tells them all about us...then comes back to us and tells us that he's been talking about us. awesome. Then he sits back down at the bar and I get a text about going to another bar and i flash it around my group, he sees this and practically runs over. "Is that the guy? are you going to meet up with the boys now?" Yeah i say. "oh, I guess you arent going to be wallflowers like me"...goes back to the bar, pays his tab, and leaves.
Sat night We got all dressed up, I was wonder woman. Eventually I'll post pictures, but pretty much I looked exactly like Wonder Woman.
Friday night was an awesome. I havent written up a "bad attempt" in a while, but thats because we havent gotten any awesome ones in a while since its been a while since we had girls night. Anyway, we were at madhatter and Tristan and I went to the ladies room, and we come back and Laura and Kaite are sitting on the bench and this old man (like 80) is standing hunched over them with his arms around both of them telling them how they shouldnt be a wallflower and pretty girls like our group should be getting the guys. He leaves and we all chat for a while. Then he walks over to the group of coeds next to us and tells them all about us...then comes back to us and tells us that he's been talking about us. awesome. Then he sits back down at the bar and I get a text about going to another bar and i flash it around my group, he sees this and practically runs over. "Is that the guy? are you going to meet up with the boys now?" Yeah i say. "oh, I guess you arent going to be wallflowers like me"...goes back to the bar, pays his tab, and leaves.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
some day i get to smoke Leslie....litterally
Last night I was lured out to Buffalo Billiards for Leslie's last night in DC as a resident(I get an extra 2 weeks of her in Hawaii...are you all jealous?)
This one guy came over to talk to me Jen and Leslie, and boy did he have all the lines.
First, he clearly had an accent so Leslie asked him where he was from. His answer? Heaven.
Once he finally admitted to being from Germany he told us we had to visit Munich...for the beer...wait, no....for the Champagne and Strawberries out in the fields late at night under the stars with that special guy.
It became clear to him that his best chance at getting some was to focus his attention on Jen so they flirted a while, then he turned to me and said "where are you from?" Boston, I answered. "I knew it, I could tell by your accent" really? "yeah, its cute, just like your eyebrows".....so um evidently I have cute eyebrows.
Then Leslie Tilley and I got to talking about dying because Katie's littlest friend is doing the tough guy challenge which is 8 miles of manure and electricity (no joke) so she needs to find him a jewish cemetary. Leslie said she wanted to be cremated. This gave me some ideas. I asked her if I could smoke her. She didnt quite like the idea, but as the night progressed I think she came around to it...so now we gotta keep our fingers crossed that she dies first. wow thats morbid.
I think there were probably a couple other highlights from the night.
This one guy came over to talk to me Jen and Leslie, and boy did he have all the lines.
First, he clearly had an accent so Leslie asked him where he was from. His answer? Heaven.
Once he finally admitted to being from Germany he told us we had to visit Munich...for the beer...wait, no....for the Champagne and Strawberries out in the fields late at night under the stars with that special guy.
It became clear to him that his best chance at getting some was to focus his attention on Jen so they flirted a while, then he turned to me and said "where are you from?" Boston, I answered. "I knew it, I could tell by your accent" really? "yeah, its cute, just like your eyebrows".....so um evidently I have cute eyebrows.
Then Leslie Tilley and I got to talking about dying because Katie's littlest friend is doing the tough guy challenge which is 8 miles of manure and electricity (no joke) so she needs to find him a jewish cemetary. Leslie said she wanted to be cremated. This gave me some ideas. I asked her if I could smoke her. She didnt quite like the idea, but as the night progressed I think she came around to it...so now we gotta keep our fingers crossed that she dies first. wow thats morbid.
I think there were probably a couple other highlights from the night.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
***** beads and a biblical connection
Sat night was girls night...for the most part...well sortof. Anyway I was chatting with Lindsay and her friend chris and I told Lindsay that I like her necklace to which she responds that her sister thinks they look like anal beads. I agreed and the three of us broke into a discussion about that.
Seconds later this guy leans over to lindsay and says he likes her necklace (clearly having heard our conversation). Chris asked him if he'd heard the convo and he said no. Then somehow he went on to tell us he was born in israel and a direct decendant of moses to which i responded that I am a direct decendent of rachel.
Chris and i break away leaving lindsay stranded. i told chris to go put his arm around her or something and rescue her but a few seconds later i hear lindsay say "hey i think there is some dancing going on inside that i need to be a part of" and she runs off. Slick lindsay :)
Seconds later this guy leans over to lindsay and says he likes her necklace (clearly having heard our conversation). Chris asked him if he'd heard the convo and he said no. Then somehow he went on to tell us he was born in israel and a direct decendant of moses to which i responded that I am a direct decendent of rachel.
Chris and i break away leaving lindsay stranded. i told chris to go put his arm around her or something and rescue her but a few seconds later i hear lindsay say "hey i think there is some dancing going on inside that i need to be a part of" and she runs off. Slick lindsay :)
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
New Orleans Part II
Clearly a group of 5 girls and one justin draws a lot of attention. Everywhere we went we got comments including some guy telling me my rack was "delicious". Also Justin wasnt too thrilled when bouncers pointed out how lucky he was to have "an entire basketball team's worth of cheerleaders" with him.
One group of guys in particular were pretty funny. The ring leader of that group had it bad for Patty and kept in touch throughout the weekend. I guess guys have their "thing" to snag girls, and this group sure had a creative one....air jump rope. Yes you read that right. Two of them pretended to swing the air rope double dutch style and then a third one jumped in and jumped rope. The second night when we saw them again they did it for us again but this time Patty and I jumped in. how could you resist that?
One guy was chatting with us and he made people lick his sweaty face (ew) and then had brittany and brianna kiss---but then he tried to convince brianna that he was 3rd string qb for the arizona cardinals. he said she could google it, but i dont know if i believe him.
since the jump rope one is a good attempt i'll now write about the bad attempt, sorry i haven't written up those in a while, i know you all miss that feature of my blog. Ok so i'm standing at bourbon cowboy watching one of the terrible girls that was hired to dance attempt to dance when this guy approaches me. He had been looking at me for a while so I wasn't surprised.
Him: "hey, are you afraid for everyone's safety?"
Me: "what?"
Him: "yeah, like are you afraid that something is going to collapse and people will get hurt?"
Me: "I mean I guess so, but I wasnt really concerned about it"
Him: "oh so you dont work on that building project down the street then do you"
Me: No
Him: "ok that makes sense that you arent concerned then. I work there and i'm in charge of making sure everything works and is safe"
Me: " are you an engineer"
Him: "yeah"
I pretty much told him I had to leave at this point. WTF. Why do the engineers seek me out! do I have a huge sign on my forehead that says Engineer?
two or three more posts to come about this weekend
One group of guys in particular were pretty funny. The ring leader of that group had it bad for Patty and kept in touch throughout the weekend. I guess guys have their "thing" to snag girls, and this group sure had a creative one....air jump rope. Yes you read that right. Two of them pretended to swing the air rope double dutch style and then a third one jumped in and jumped rope. The second night when we saw them again they did it for us again but this time Patty and I jumped in. how could you resist that?
One guy was chatting with us and he made people lick his sweaty face (ew) and then had brittany and brianna kiss---but then he tried to convince brianna that he was 3rd string qb for the arizona cardinals. he said she could google it, but i dont know if i believe him.
since the jump rope one is a good attempt i'll now write about the bad attempt, sorry i haven't written up those in a while, i know you all miss that feature of my blog. Ok so i'm standing at bourbon cowboy watching one of the terrible girls that was hired to dance attempt to dance when this guy approaches me. He had been looking at me for a while so I wasn't surprised.
Him: "hey, are you afraid for everyone's safety?"
Me: "what?"
Him: "yeah, like are you afraid that something is going to collapse and people will get hurt?"
Me: "I mean I guess so, but I wasnt really concerned about it"
Him: "oh so you dont work on that building project down the street then do you"
Me: No
Him: "ok that makes sense that you arent concerned then. I work there and i'm in charge of making sure everything works and is safe"
Me: " are you an engineer"
Him: "yeah"
I pretty much told him I had to leave at this point. WTF. Why do the engineers seek me out! do I have a huge sign on my forehead that says Engineer?
two or three more posts to come about this weekend
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Adult website propositions, endless drummers, and a general good time
(this is long, but stick with it, its totally worth it with both stories)
So I had almost made it to the end of friday night without anything totally ridiculous happening---when I went to the bar to buy another beer. This guy two over from me leans around to take a picture of my ass. I figure ok, dont make a scene, your underwear (for once) isnt showing, and he wont get your face in it too so whats the harm. He takes the picture then walks around to talk to me, he shows me the picture, then shows me he deletes it because he tells me he can take better of me. Ummmm ok.....He's got me hooked, i'm totally interested to see what he's going to say next. "I run an adult website" he says "you are probably already myspace friends with us". WHAT? yeah, i made the bartender give me a pen at this time to write down his site...pickle pimpin productions at myspace.... At this point a friend I'd made earlier in the night realizes i'm a little weirded out and comes over and puts his arm around me. The adult site guy says "oh, I dont do couple stuff, just you"...I excuse myself to go to the bathroom. Later in the night as I'm closing my tab and Tristan is waiting for me he corners tristan and starts telling her that he thinks he's freaked me out...REALLY? what gave you that idea? i have adult site guys approach me all the time! wtf!
Sat I had lunch with some fairly new found cousins in rockville, that was fun.
Sat night Leslie and I drove to Baltimore to see Brand New at the Ram's Head Tavern. We went with this chick, Tara, who evidently books all acts for all ram's head's and She got us into the sold out show vip style...open bar and everything.
I had been talking about going to this show for months, but It wasn't until a couple days before that Leslie got on the same page as me, and once the show began she was very glad she made that decision.
The opening band--Kevin Divine--was amusing, they had 7 drummers and 5 stringed instrument people, and then random other people standing around stage doing random things like tambourine, or checking cell phone. leslie leaned over to me and said "well they've really set the bar high, I dont know if I can ever be impressed with a band that has less than 7 drummers"
Brand New came out, I have seen them twice before and the last time I saw them I wasnt impressed. This time was a totally different story, they were hands down the best I've ever seen them (i'll probably add a fuller blog to my myspace page later on). They were great...except one thing...they only had one drummer. Well towards the end of the show one of the drummers from the previous band came out to join him on the already set up second full drum set. We were mildly impressed. Then it was time for the Encour. Every drummer in the baltimore area suddenly appeared on stage carrying random parts of drum sets onto the stage. I lost count at 14 drummers! All the while there were still 5 stringed instruments, and one tambourine player. This was pure CHAOS. it sounded awesome. Then people started doing running jumps into the various drum sets. The stringed men walked off stage. The drummed men left. one man was still on stage, he took appart the synthesizer so he could take one of the two previously attached keyboards with him to continue playing as he left the stage. The show was now over and my mind was blown. THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME
Sunday Ended at Irish times to watch the last Redsox Yankees game of the series---SWEPT EM!
So I had almost made it to the end of friday night without anything totally ridiculous happening---when I went to the bar to buy another beer. This guy two over from me leans around to take a picture of my ass. I figure ok, dont make a scene, your underwear (for once) isnt showing, and he wont get your face in it too so whats the harm. He takes the picture then walks around to talk to me, he shows me the picture, then shows me he deletes it because he tells me he can take better of me. Ummmm ok.....He's got me hooked, i'm totally interested to see what he's going to say next. "I run an adult website" he says "you are probably already myspace friends with us". WHAT? yeah, i made the bartender give me a pen at this time to write down his site...pickle pimpin productions at myspace.... At this point a friend I'd made earlier in the night realizes i'm a little weirded out and comes over and puts his arm around me. The adult site guy says "oh, I dont do couple stuff, just you"...I excuse myself to go to the bathroom. Later in the night as I'm closing my tab and Tristan is waiting for me he corners tristan and starts telling her that he thinks he's freaked me out...REALLY? what gave you that idea? i have adult site guys approach me all the time! wtf!
Sat I had lunch with some fairly new found cousins in rockville, that was fun.
Sat night Leslie and I drove to Baltimore to see Brand New at the Ram's Head Tavern. We went with this chick, Tara, who evidently books all acts for all ram's head's and She got us into the sold out show vip style...open bar and everything.
I had been talking about going to this show for months, but It wasn't until a couple days before that Leslie got on the same page as me, and once the show began she was very glad she made that decision.
The opening band--Kevin Divine--was amusing, they had 7 drummers and 5 stringed instrument people, and then random other people standing around stage doing random things like tambourine, or checking cell phone. leslie leaned over to me and said "well they've really set the bar high, I dont know if I can ever be impressed with a band that has less than 7 drummers"
Brand New came out, I have seen them twice before and the last time I saw them I wasnt impressed. This time was a totally different story, they were hands down the best I've ever seen them (i'll probably add a fuller blog to my myspace page later on). They were great...except one thing...they only had one drummer. Well towards the end of the show one of the drummers from the previous band came out to join him on the already set up second full drum set. We were mildly impressed. Then it was time for the Encour. Every drummer in the baltimore area suddenly appeared on stage carrying random parts of drum sets onto the stage. I lost count at 14 drummers! All the while there were still 5 stringed instruments, and one tambourine player. This was pure CHAOS. it sounded awesome. Then people started doing running jumps into the various drum sets. The stringed men walked off stage. The drummed men left. one man was still on stage, he took appart the synthesizer so he could take one of the two previously attached keyboards with him to continue playing as he left the stage. The show was now over and my mind was blown. THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME
Sunday Ended at Irish times to watch the last Redsox Yankees game of the series---SWEPT EM!
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Patriot's Day Edition
Happy Patriot's Day everyone! I guess all my Boston (maybe all of new england i'm not sure) readers wont be reading this since you all get the day off--I'm not even gonna pretend I'm not jealous.
I cant really elaborate but friday night's fun included meeting and hanging out with the star of "naughty gym class III", then we all went over to Will and Ted's Excellent Apartment. surprisingly fun night!
Worst attempt of the week needs some explanation first. If there is anything that annoys me, its when guys guess that I'm Jewish before even talking to me, then they base their conversation on that. So sat night I'm at the U street Bar Crawl (Solly's, Axis, and Stetsons), and I decide to sit at the end of the table where I dont know anyone at an attempt of making things less awkward. I introduced myself, and the first guy to respond goes "are you jewish" and I said "ummm yeah..." this is normal, but whats about to happen is totally weird...he proceeded with conversation ENTIRELY IN HEBREW! what??? yeah, i'm actually born with a gene that allows me to understand hebrew...ok so I can read it, but I understand maybe three words of it. This kid threw in a little more hebrew throughout the evening. totally weird.
Also some guy professed his love for me solely based on the fact that I had already been to Ben's Chili bowl that day. lol dont worry that was just katie's co worker.
I cant really elaborate but friday night's fun included meeting and hanging out with the star of "naughty gym class III", then we all went over to Will and Ted's Excellent Apartment. surprisingly fun night!
Worst attempt of the week needs some explanation first. If there is anything that annoys me, its when guys guess that I'm Jewish before even talking to me, then they base their conversation on that. So sat night I'm at the U street Bar Crawl (Solly's, Axis, and Stetsons), and I decide to sit at the end of the table where I dont know anyone at an attempt of making things less awkward. I introduced myself, and the first guy to respond goes "are you jewish" and I said "ummm yeah..." this is normal, but whats about to happen is totally weird...he proceeded with conversation ENTIRELY IN HEBREW! what??? yeah, i'm actually born with a gene that allows me to understand hebrew...ok so I can read it, but I understand maybe three words of it. This kid threw in a little more hebrew throughout the evening. totally weird.
Also some guy professed his love for me solely based on the fact that I had already been to Ben's Chili bowl that day. lol dont worry that was just katie's co worker.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Show last night and Bad attempts in greenway center
Last night, after a brief stint at a capitol hill reception--I don't know something for trees--Leslie and I went to the black cat to see Army of Me and The Hard Tomorrows.
The hard tomorrows keep getting better which is cool. As they started to play I suddenly remembered that i had a friend that liked to listen to their music at..um..opportune times-so that was interesting. They sounded great, and the crowd REALLY got into it, especially this one really large guy. He was awesome to watch.
Army of Me came on next and after spending about a half hour adjusting the mic etc they finally came out. I was surprised that these adjustments made the lead vocals drowned out a bit more than usual. About 2/3 through they had a band meeting on stage and announced that the main guy's voice was having trouble and he was going to a doctor tomorrow but he'd play one more song for us, but if it was "DC" just to be warned that he couldn't hit the high notes tonight. We agreed and they played it. I love the way his voice sounds, and cant wait for their new CD in 2 weeks.
As for bad attempts--well, its 9 am and standing in the elevator lobby this morning some guy came up to me and said "I have a personal question for you. Coconut, or dark?" I said "dark" to which he handed me two dark chocolate Hershey's kisses and then added "I told you it was personal, I just wanted to Kiss you". Then when I got off the elevator he said "thank you, you made my day today".....I'm kinda hoping he isnt a new employee in this building because that could make for future awkwardness.
Lastly I have an interview today and I couldnt get the stamps off my hand from last night so he's gonna think thats weird. Luckily I'm the interviewer not the interviewee so he'll just have to deal.
OH one more last thing, my awful officemate has taken to talking to himself outloud in arabic as he walks by me...I secretly think he's swearing at me. So if any of you know arabic let me know and maybe you can translate for me.
The hard tomorrows keep getting better which is cool. As they started to play I suddenly remembered that i had a friend that liked to listen to their music at..um..opportune times-so that was interesting. They sounded great, and the crowd REALLY got into it, especially this one really large guy. He was awesome to watch.
Army of Me came on next and after spending about a half hour adjusting the mic etc they finally came out. I was surprised that these adjustments made the lead vocals drowned out a bit more than usual. About 2/3 through they had a band meeting on stage and announced that the main guy's voice was having trouble and he was going to a doctor tomorrow but he'd play one more song for us, but if it was "DC" just to be warned that he couldn't hit the high notes tonight. We agreed and they played it. I love the way his voice sounds, and cant wait for their new CD in 2 weeks.
As for bad attempts--well, its 9 am and standing in the elevator lobby this morning some guy came up to me and said "I have a personal question for you. Coconut, or dark?" I said "dark" to which he handed me two dark chocolate Hershey's kisses and then added "I told you it was personal, I just wanted to Kiss you". Then when I got off the elevator he said "thank you, you made my day today".....I'm kinda hoping he isnt a new employee in this building because that could make for future awkwardness.
Lastly I have an interview today and I couldnt get the stamps off my hand from last night so he's gonna think thats weird. Luckily I'm the interviewer not the interviewee so he'll just have to deal.
OH one more last thing, my awful officemate has taken to talking to himself outloud in arabic as he walks by me...I secretly think he's swearing at me. So if any of you know arabic let me know and maybe you can translate for me.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
St Patrick's day fun and other monday randomness
I've posted a million and three new photos, so go check out my site :)
St. Patrick's day was awesome. I started by meeting up with Emily around 1:30ish at a Colby party (she went there) I guess its a tradition to throw this "dog head" party. All i know is that there were endless kegs of green beer. So I was sold. After a few hours of the green beer I decided I could walk from the party to Chris' house. Evidently I turned the wrong direction and 30 min later had to call chris to pick me up in his car because I was very lost. We continued on to 51st state with Kati and Maura in foggy bottom. We made a bunch more stops before the sun went down and some other stuff and i dont know...and ended up around maybe 11ish at Leslie's for Car Bombs and glasses of irish creme. Leslie informs me that I was a "showtime" which I've somewhat been able to piece together from photos.
I've been slacking on my "weekly features" like bad pickup attempts and weekly videos. Its not that there havent been amusingly bad attempts, or i havent seen good videos...I guess I just had other things to talk about.
Anyway This weekend's bad attempt was around 2 pm on st. patrick's day. Needless to say the guy was already wasted. He walked up and says "you dont look it, but you arent pregnant are you? I just gotta cover my bases and make sure I'm not a dad yet" Clearly I was hooked and couldnt break away from conversation at this point, only awesomeness was to come. He continued with "does your mom work at a bubble gum factory? because you are yum-a-licious" I started laughing which I guess just prompted the guy..."does your dad work at a juice factory? because you are very fine...no? you've heard that one...ok I've got a magic watch and it says you arent wearing underwear....no? it must be a half hour fast!"
This guy was quite a champ, I think he had a few more that he threw in. It was fully amusing.
St. Patrick's day was awesome. I started by meeting up with Emily around 1:30ish at a Colby party (she went there) I guess its a tradition to throw this "dog head" party. All i know is that there were endless kegs of green beer. So I was sold. After a few hours of the green beer I decided I could walk from the party to Chris' house. Evidently I turned the wrong direction and 30 min later had to call chris to pick me up in his car because I was very lost. We continued on to 51st state with Kati and Maura in foggy bottom. We made a bunch more stops before the sun went down and some other stuff and i dont know...and ended up around maybe 11ish at Leslie's for Car Bombs and glasses of irish creme. Leslie informs me that I was a "showtime" which I've somewhat been able to piece together from photos.
I've been slacking on my "weekly features" like bad pickup attempts and weekly videos. Its not that there havent been amusingly bad attempts, or i havent seen good videos...I guess I just had other things to talk about.
Anyway This weekend's bad attempt was around 2 pm on st. patrick's day. Needless to say the guy was already wasted. He walked up and says "you dont look it, but you arent pregnant are you? I just gotta cover my bases and make sure I'm not a dad yet" Clearly I was hooked and couldnt break away from conversation at this point, only awesomeness was to come. He continued with "does your mom work at a bubble gum factory? because you are yum-a-licious" I started laughing which I guess just prompted the guy..."does your dad work at a juice factory? because you are very fine...no? you've heard that one...ok I've got a magic watch and it says you arent wearing underwear....no? it must be a half hour fast!"
This guy was quite a champ, I think he had a few more that he threw in. It was fully amusing.
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Tired monday but great weekend
Sat night was the 3rd annual Fab Feb Fest which was so much fun. If you've ever wanted an ego boost invite 500 of your closest friends to a bar add alcohol and there you have it. People i didnt know were coming up to me (and i'm sure a couple of the other girls) saying they HAD to meet me since i was a hostess. (oh yeah the skin tight low cut dress probably helped with that) The bar made us a special "party shot" it was like watermellon goodness, last i counted I had maybe 5 of them and every single time it was a different color. The other thing about being the hostess is people buy your drinks all night. I had a moment at the end of the night where i found it was best to just sit down with a nice glass of water but other than that it was great night, i'm already looking forward to next feb.
Sunday night was 3rd annual oscar date night with Rach "beer bitch" Safran vs. Chris "oscar machine" Shields. He's won the previous two years for a six pack of beer each. Trash talk began about 2 or 3 months ago with classics like "you are going down faster than rachel on a first date"...or my classy response "nuh-uh, i'm so gonna kick your ass". Anyway the votes are in and the winner is chris 14-10. Its because I vote with my heart (anything leo related) and he votes with his head.
This weeks winner for worst pick up attempt was someone at our party so I guess it must be a friend of a friend's...but he kept walking by me all night and say corny things like "we've gotta stop meeting up like this" when waiting in line for the coed bathroom...but the last time he came by he stopped, looked at me, and said "you've got a great smile, but i can tell you are a wild animal in that dress".....wow, that boy knows exactly what to tell a girl. Needless to say I immediately put down my drink and went home with him....just kidding.
The hostesses

Sunday night was 3rd annual oscar date night with Rach "beer bitch" Safran vs. Chris "oscar machine" Shields. He's won the previous two years for a six pack of beer each. Trash talk began about 2 or 3 months ago with classics like "you are going down faster than rachel on a first date"...or my classy response "nuh-uh, i'm so gonna kick your ass". Anyway the votes are in and the winner is chris 14-10. Its because I vote with my heart (anything leo related) and he votes with his head.
This weeks winner for worst pick up attempt was someone at our party so I guess it must be a friend of a friend's...but he kept walking by me all night and say corny things like "we've gotta stop meeting up like this" when waiting in line for the coed bathroom...but the last time he came by he stopped, looked at me, and said "you've got a great smile, but i can tell you are a wild animal in that dress".....wow, that boy knows exactly what to tell a girl. Needless to say I immediately put down my drink and went home with him....just kidding.
The hostesses

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Monday Randomness
This weekend was full of birthdays, concerts, moustache's and mini skirts.
lily allen show, and paul and emily's birthday to be specific (pics are already up).
Leslie and will decided that the newest president's day tradition is this game called "drinko"...its like plinko, but for shots. Also I have been wondering why i have a planned parenthood condom in my purse...if anyone knows feel free to let me know. it could answer some questions.
also i tried leggings this weekend b/c i had seen them on this bass player olivia mancini and i thought it looked pretty hot....it worked alright, maybe i'll try it again.
This week's award for worst pick up attempt had too many to choose from, i narrowed it down to the two best. First was at rumors, some random dude came up behind me, put his arms around me, and leaned his head around and dove in to kiss me. This all happened so fast before I could figure out what was going on. As soon as i realized what this slimeball was doing i tried to squirm away. at this point he says in his suavest way "hey girl, dont you remember I bought you that drink?". actually I had bought my own drink thanks, and even if he had bought me the drink was that his ticket to attempt a surprise attack make out? I dont think so. I walked away and found my friends. Later he again snuck up behind me, put his arm around me and tried to stick his hands down my pants. lovely. I grabbed his hand and shoved him away. You know what line turns out not to work on guys? "um sorry i'm expecting a baby in like 6 months".
The second was at Rhodeside Grill at the mustache's and miniskirts party. I'm dancing with my friends and some guy backs up into me then turns and grabs my ass and says "excuse me, that was my ass you just grabbed". I just inch away a bit and he comes back with "that was supposed to be an ice breaker, did it work". "no" and i walked off. "ummm I have to go, my house is on fire"
lily allen show, and paul and emily's birthday to be specific (pics are already up).
Leslie and will decided that the newest president's day tradition is this game called "drinko"...its like plinko, but for shots. Also I have been wondering why i have a planned parenthood condom in my purse...if anyone knows feel free to let me know. it could answer some questions.
also i tried leggings this weekend b/c i had seen them on this bass player olivia mancini and i thought it looked pretty hot....it worked alright, maybe i'll try it again.
This week's award for worst pick up attempt had too many to choose from, i narrowed it down to the two best. First was at rumors, some random dude came up behind me, put his arms around me, and leaned his head around and dove in to kiss me. This all happened so fast before I could figure out what was going on. As soon as i realized what this slimeball was doing i tried to squirm away. at this point he says in his suavest way "hey girl, dont you remember I bought you that drink?". actually I had bought my own drink thanks, and even if he had bought me the drink was that his ticket to attempt a surprise attack make out? I dont think so. I walked away and found my friends. Later he again snuck up behind me, put his arm around me and tried to stick his hands down my pants. lovely. I grabbed his hand and shoved him away. You know what line turns out not to work on guys? "um sorry i'm expecting a baby in like 6 months".
The second was at Rhodeside Grill at the mustache's and miniskirts party. I'm dancing with my friends and some guy backs up into me then turns and grabs my ass and says "excuse me, that was my ass you just grabbed". I just inch away a bit and he comes back with "that was supposed to be an ice breaker, did it work". "no" and i walked off. "ummm I have to go, my house is on fire"
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Saturday, February 3, 2007
Book It! Liberation Dance Party (again)
Sarah was in town so as per usual Sarah Leslie and I went to the Liberation Dance Party. I realized that this is the fourth consecutive year I've been going to this regularly. I love how they show music videos, most of which are totally ridiculous. My favorite might have been the electric six Danger!high voltage. you HAVE to see it. The Perfects (a band) came and played for some of the time...they were much less than perfect. in fact they were borderline terrible. They started and I was thinking OK they sound pretty good, but like 30 seconds into it leaned over to Leslie and said "OK, I'm done with this". Maybe they'll get better, maybe i just wasn't in the mood...who knows
One band that I had never heard before but love now I think was "scissors for lefty" but that could be because the guy in the video wore the sith lord costume the whole time. I'll wait till dc9 posts their play list so i can figure out if that's really the band that goes with the sith video, and then buy it or something. Another video that was awesome was Teddybear's "punkrockstar" with Iggy Pop, check out teddybear and you'll know why.
Funny thing we noticed was that there were a ton of songs we knew from commercials on tv.
I guess this is actually becoming a weekly feature...pick up attempts:
First the amusing one, This was in conversation to both me and Leslie, but I was just being a wing girl ;) So the band members of the perfects kinda dressed appropriately rock and roll, but then the lead singer kinda dressed in a knit sweater bare naked ladies style. Then this random guy "dennis the menace" came up to us and says "i'd probably pay 20 bucks to see them if they changed their name to Fat Guy in a Sweater". We both started laughing incredibly hard. then he says
"ok I am going to give you three options, which band would you buy tickets for?
a. little guy in a sweater?
b. fat guy in a sweater?
c. Midget in a sweater?"
Simultaneously Leslie and i responded "midget in a sweater"
To which he exclaimed "book it!"
Then the horrible one...Some guy was trying to chat with me while I clearly wanted nothing to do with him, he was asking all sorts of questions, so finally i ask him what he does for a living he responds...and i'm not kidding "oh i have a good job, I make a lot of money". He returned the question and asked what I did...he goes "wow, do you even realize how much you could be making?" and i was like "yeah, i have some idea" and he goes "you could be making like 150,000 fresh out" (um, no, you really cant) to which he follows up with "i know because I make a lot of money too"....Needless to say I gave up on being polite and just blatantly walked away at this point. Oh let me also add that he tried to buy me a Schlitz...probably doesn't make as much as he says even if i did care.
I cant even begin to describe the crazy stuff that happened sat night, maybe in future blogs I will. All I know is that the Wizards Lakers game was awesome as was Marie's 29th birthday flip cup fiesta!
I have little to no voice today :(
One band that I had never heard before but love now I think was "scissors for lefty" but that could be because the guy in the video wore the sith lord costume the whole time. I'll wait till dc9 posts their play list so i can figure out if that's really the band that goes with the sith video, and then buy it or something. Another video that was awesome was Teddybear's "punkrockstar" with Iggy Pop, check out teddybear and you'll know why.
Funny thing we noticed was that there were a ton of songs we knew from commercials on tv.
I guess this is actually becoming a weekly feature...pick up attempts:
First the amusing one, This was in conversation to both me and Leslie, but I was just being a wing girl ;) So the band members of the perfects kinda dressed appropriately rock and roll, but then the lead singer kinda dressed in a knit sweater bare naked ladies style. Then this random guy "dennis the menace" came up to us and says "i'd probably pay 20 bucks to see them if they changed their name to Fat Guy in a Sweater". We both started laughing incredibly hard. then he says
"ok I am going to give you three options, which band would you buy tickets for?
a. little guy in a sweater?
b. fat guy in a sweater?
c. Midget in a sweater?"
Simultaneously Leslie and i responded "midget in a sweater"
To which he exclaimed "book it!"
Then the horrible one...Some guy was trying to chat with me while I clearly wanted nothing to do with him, he was asking all sorts of questions, so finally i ask him what he does for a living he responds...and i'm not kidding "oh i have a good job, I make a lot of money". He returned the question and asked what I did...he goes "wow, do you even realize how much you could be making?" and i was like "yeah, i have some idea" and he goes "you could be making like 150,000 fresh out" (um, no, you really cant) to which he follows up with "i know because I make a lot of money too"....Needless to say I gave up on being polite and just blatantly walked away at this point. Oh let me also add that he tried to buy me a Schlitz...probably doesn't make as much as he says even if i did care.
I cant even begin to describe the crazy stuff that happened sat night, maybe in future blogs I will. All I know is that the Wizards Lakers game was awesome as was Marie's 29th birthday flip cup fiesta!
I have little to no voice today :(
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
My Very own Dr. [not so] McDreamy
Sat night I was on my apt floor elevator lobby with Leslie waiting to go down when we ran into my neighbor. He was wearing a emergency medicine t shirt and was one of those overly friendly people. He tried to get an invite to play twister with us that night, but when it was clear we weren't going to offer one he asked for my apt number and said he'd stop by to play some other time. What could I do? just say I don't remember where I live? He suggested we set up a twister league in DC, but he wouldn't quit his day job to work on twister...trying to get us to ask what he did, but we didn't ask. Before parting ways he told us that if we got hurt he had some morphine in his apartment that we could have. umm...thanks?
This story goes back a little farther than that. We met earlier this year when he moved a few doors down from me. He is always very chatty and quite the gentleman offering to hold doors for me, helps me take out the trash etc. I always ran into him at the pool too. Now the weird thing about all these run ins is that he was without fail always either wearing his med school shirt, some other medical related shirt, or his scrubs. Ok I get the hint, you are a doctor.
Well to make it even better I saw him in the garage about a week ago. I know I shouldn't be the one to make fun of vanity plates, but I'm gonna anyway. his plates read "dr dan".
I don't think I've ever met anyone so proud of their own profession.
as a side note, mike and will are good twister players, and I still think there has to be some amazing story behind why ted refused to play.
This story goes back a little farther than that. We met earlier this year when he moved a few doors down from me. He is always very chatty and quite the gentleman offering to hold doors for me, helps me take out the trash etc. I always ran into him at the pool too. Now the weird thing about all these run ins is that he was without fail always either wearing his med school shirt, some other medical related shirt, or his scrubs. Ok I get the hint, you are a doctor.
Well to make it even better I saw him in the garage about a week ago. I know I shouldn't be the one to make fun of vanity plates, but I'm gonna anyway. his plates read "dr dan".
I don't think I've ever met anyone so proud of their own profession.
as a side note, mike and will are good twister players, and I still think there has to be some amazing story behind why ted refused to play.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Bad attempts and strip clubs
And the winner for worst pickup attempt was.....
I was thinking about making this a weekly Monday feature in my blog, but most bad attempts are the same so I'll only post when they amuse me a lot.
Friday night I was at Lucky Bar and at one point I was sitting in a booth on one side by myself and katie was across from me while paul and laura and jessica were dancing (thanks for not saving me that time paul :( ) This guy comes and stands next to the table for a bit pretending to be on the phone. He sits down while on the fake call and hangs up. looks at me and goes for his wallet...instead of immediately going for his wallet he grabs my ass, I scoot over a little and he redirects his hand for his wallet. Pulls out a credit card and hands it to katie indicating she should order us all a round on him (he still has yet to say a word). Jessica returns at this point, figures out whats going on, hands the card back and tells him he shouldn't give his credit card to strangers. At this point he looks back to me and says (remember this is the first time he's spoken) "there is nothing more that I want then to make out with you right now"...Then he leans in for the kiss! Clearly i back away as much as you can do while cornered in a booth. He tries to lean in a few more times while awkwardly sitting next to me still neither of us talking to the other (i'm looking around for people to save me and trying to ignore him) he goes to run his fingers through my hair and pull my head in for one more attempt to kiss me...again i resist. He speaks again..."i'm persistent, i'm not going anywhere". "fine" i say, and continue to look away and ignore him. after about five awkward minutes of silence FINALLY HE GOES AWAY.
Also the most amusing part of the weekend was when we were at Camelot for chris' bday and ashley and I got up to give one girl $$ and a good portion of the guys started cheering for us instead of the totally naked girl. I dont think the girl minded though b/c after her performance she came over to me and ashley and told us we were very sweet.
I was thinking about making this a weekly Monday feature in my blog, but most bad attempts are the same so I'll only post when they amuse me a lot.
Friday night I was at Lucky Bar and at one point I was sitting in a booth on one side by myself and katie was across from me while paul and laura and jessica were dancing (thanks for not saving me that time paul :( ) This guy comes and stands next to the table for a bit pretending to be on the phone. He sits down while on the fake call and hangs up. looks at me and goes for his wallet...instead of immediately going for his wallet he grabs my ass, I scoot over a little and he redirects his hand for his wallet. Pulls out a credit card and hands it to katie indicating she should order us all a round on him (he still has yet to say a word). Jessica returns at this point, figures out whats going on, hands the card back and tells him he shouldn't give his credit card to strangers. At this point he looks back to me and says (remember this is the first time he's spoken) "there is nothing more that I want then to make out with you right now"...Then he leans in for the kiss! Clearly i back away as much as you can do while cornered in a booth. He tries to lean in a few more times while awkwardly sitting next to me still neither of us talking to the other (i'm looking around for people to save me and trying to ignore him) he goes to run his fingers through my hair and pull my head in for one more attempt to kiss me...again i resist. He speaks again..."i'm persistent, i'm not going anywhere". "fine" i say, and continue to look away and ignore him. after about five awkward minutes of silence FINALLY HE GOES AWAY.
Also the most amusing part of the weekend was when we were at Camelot for chris' bday and ashley and I got up to give one girl $$ and a good portion of the guys started cheering for us instead of the totally naked girl. I dont think the girl minded though b/c after her performance she came over to me and ashley and told us we were very sweet.
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