Junk mail

I think junk mail people are getting more creative lately.

First I got one that was hand addressed and in a fancy envelope and looked like it may have been a wedding invitation. I opened it and it was a dr's office advertisement instead. wtf. I got tricked.

The second weird junk mail i got just looked fairly interesting, it was a tv ratings thing so i was thinking maybe they wanted me to be a neilson person and i'd get to keep awesome shows like gossip girl on the air. So i opened it up to find TWO dollar bills in there, and a promise of 5 more if you send in your response to thier questionaire about what TV and radio you watch and listen to etc. At first I was thinking sweet, i'll totally do that, plus they already gave me 2 bucks so why not. But then i looked at the form and they ask for all my information. And then I got to thinking,what on that sheet was worth SEVEN bucks to them? probably my information and not the answers to my questions. No chance i'm filling out that form now.

Happy Passover

Passover started at sundown last night. The Barnett's were very nice to invite us over for the seder, and they cooked wonderful food. I very much enjoyed this seder.

Now begins a week of salads and matzo-pizza. Should be particularly interesting since peter just bought a costco size bread and will be taunting me with it all week as he eats his sandwiches. oh well.

A little passover surprise occurred when we returned home. In the elevator area in the garage was sitting a box. (i will post picutre maybe later). The box read "How to Play Air Guitar" "free air guitar inside". So basically I believe this is just a well marketed empty box. It had a 5 dollar price sticker on it from barnes and nobles. I did not take it though, I figured it was only right to leave it for its rightful owner. (it was still there this morning though)

More Dreams

Last night i had a very clear dream, and the funny thing is during the day time its also my dream. I had a dream that I was hanging out with Dave Grohl and we were like bfff. We were just hanging out and having fun. Then leslie called me and I had him pick up and she predictably freaked out (as i would have done too). It was a cool dream. Then i woke up and had to go to work super early....that was less cool. Oh well.

A few random points

1. Weekend in boston for my grandfather's 90th was fun.

2. On the flight back to DC the pilot kept saying "if you all look out the left side you can see ___" and it was like NYC, and philly he was pointing out. BUT having just seen the episode of west wing where they made the reporters look out the left side so a air force plane could fly along the right and re fuel it without being noticed I kept looking out the opposite side of the plane than the pilot was directing, and the girl next to me seemed really confused and probably just thought I didnt know my right from my left.

3. On the shoe front, I got a few new pairs this weekend. It turns out Nike Bought cole haan a few years back, and have finally started incorporated them into cute pumps, so i got a wedge and a sling back and oddly enough are really comfortable!

GW alumni event

So i finally felt old enough to go to an alumni event, so last night Puja and I found our way over to tonic to go to a SWE/SEAS event.

It was predictably awkward. At first puja and i sat by ourselves to catch up, but strangers kept inching towards us, so eventually we just got up and sat with some other people puja knew (she's more popular than i am). It was cool chatting with other alums.

We didnt stay more than 30 min though and had dinner at johnny rockets in 2100penn. Its a good thing that wasnt there when i was at gw b/c i'd go there all the time.

Anyway, i'd say the alum event was a success and i'd go back to another one, but not too frequently.

You got me Costco, nice april fools joke

I went to costco and bought what I thought was a bag of normal oranges. They looked particularly delicious and as soon as I got home i opened one.

It had weird red swirls in it as if the orange was actually bleeding. gross. I've had blood oranges before but they do not look like this at all. Then i went to look at the bag "italian table oranges", those are just normal oranges right? so i freaked out that my orange was infact bleeding.

Then, thanks to the internet i looked up Italian table oranges and found out that they do in fact have red swirls in it, and it was safe to eat. Phew. That was a close one.

April 1

Ok so today is april 1st. I actually hate april fools day jokes and havent played one since I was really little and switched my mom's sugar for salt to trick her for her morning tea. Oh That same year I also taped the sprayer down so when someone turned on the kitchen sink they got soaked. Those didnt go over to well and I try not to participate in anymore pranks.

Its totally ridiculous that every year people go through the entire day wondering if people are pranking them.

For example yesterday we got a company wide email that today time keeping was going to be down, then b/c of responses they sent out a second one saying that wasnt an april fools joke, and then a third one saying the second email also wasnt an april fools joke.

Today I have in my inbox 3 emails from rsafran1@roadrunner.com I dont know this email address or who it could be, and all three have attachments. So far i havent deleted them because part of me wants to know what the attachments are, but the rest of me knows better, and is particularly nervous since i heard about the april fools virus. :( oh well