Snowy Days making me homesick

Well today is the first day all year where snow has stuck overnight. At my dulles office we even got half a foot of snow, but returning to greenbelt today i see less than an inch.

I miss snow that you can play in and build snow men, forts, snowball fights, sledding...basically snow that isnt so thin that you can see all the dirt and grass. This snow just looks dirty and just gets annoying. Its never enough snow to get a snow day. I was talking to laurie in minisota, and they even get COLD days if its too cold to go outside. Here in the comfortably middle level range weather the only reason in my almost decade of living down here that i've gotten anything cancelled was if it had previously snowed and the dc area hadnt figured out how to plow out for one reason or another, and it was just the lingering effects of the snow that got us out of school. Lame.

Its alright though because I'm not so great with cold weather anyway...I've lost my boston warmth keeping me warm on the coldest of days...or simply not caring :)

A phone call from my dad

Me: Hi
Dad: you still at work?
Me: yeah
Dad: ok i just had one quick question. If vegetarians eat vegetables, then what do humanitarians eat?

RIP Brad Renfro

Brad Renfro died yesterday. He was a major crush of mine back in the day....say 1994 when he was in The Client. I must have watched that movie every weekend that year. and then of course Tom and Huck which co starred him with JTT...movies didnt get better than that.

Brad also had a special place in my heart because he was one day younger than me according to Tiger Beat Magazine (he was july 25th)

I guess someone had to keep Jonathan Brandis company.

restaurant week

Last night a group of us girls went to restaurant week at the oval room. We had a reservation for 8 people for 7pm. We made these reservations weeks ago, and I called to find out if they had legit vegetarian options (meaning options i'd eat). The answer was only on thier normal menu, but that was fine.

So we show up at 6:45 because we are timely girls, and they tell us it will be 5 or 10 minutes. Thats ok. So at 7:15 (30 minutes later) they tell us that the table we are supposed to be at is "just getting ready to leave" and that he knew they'd be out momentarily since they had an appointment at the whitehouse in 10 minutes.

15 minutes later he assures us they are getting ready to stand up and leave because the president is waiting for them. YEAH, we almost believe that the president is waiting for some random family eating at the oval room. so we start talking loudly about how its a lame lie and rather condescending and that we dislike gwb anyway since he has sent our friends away to war so we clearly dont think someone going to the white house to meet with him is overly important or impressive.

He over hears this and comes over and appologizes again for the wait and then offers us champagne, which clearly we take.

The meal itself wasnt anything special. Dessert sucked. And the veggie options sucked. They had lied about having additional items on their menu from the normal menu and I was stuck eatting chestnut ravioli. ew. who likes chestnuts.

Basically I do not recomend the Oval Room.

Some people are slow

So i started going to the dulles office twice a week. Yesterday was my first day. I showed up promptly at 8:30 am (after an hour drive!) and found out that i had an office which including a desk, and a guest chair. no desk chair and more importantly no computer.

Turns out they dont bring the new computers till 1 or 2, so I left and will try again. All I have to say though is that this drive is really making me appreciate maryland. VA traffic sucks, VA atmosphere sucks. Clearly this isnt including stuff just into virginia, Just about all the way to ballston is ok...anything past that sucks.

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".

morning radio

Morning radio is a difficult thing. I know i've blogged about it before, but now I have a new frustration.

One channel that actually mixes music into the morning block is 94.7 the old arrow now the globe i think. Anyway the problem is 1. they alternate good songs with really crapy songs and then 2. weasel sucks. He is annoying, not funny, terrible voice, and clearly too old to be incharge of morning radio. as soon as he starts talking i change the station, i'd rather listen to Eliot in the morning's talk than weasel...actually i'd rather listen to ANYONE talk than him. This morning i stooped so low as to change to hot 99.5 when weasel started talking.

Thats my morning vent. Get a new DJ.