as life comes to a skidding halt
wednesday night i tried a box of the store brand mac n cheese, because i felt silly paying fifty cents extra for kraft.
immediately afterward i had a painful, painful stomach ache, that only got worse through thursday. luckily, thursday was my day off, so staying in my bed and sleeping on the couch while i recovered was easy. i don't think my roomies believe i moved from the couch all day, but i swear, i did drag myself up to my frigid crows nest for a few hours before giving up and going back down. and then tina got home, after having a ridiculous dinner and conversation with aaron. i'm proud of her though. she came back, and the first thing she said to me was "wanna get out of town for the weekend?". the answer was, of course, yes. but i knew i'd have work all day sunday, so i had to say no instead. that didn't hold her back, tho. we hopped on line and after some fervent cross comparing of various flights, busses, car rentals and trains, we found her a round trip ticket to boston leaving friday night (yes, the next day) and returning sunday night for only $160!! so hard to not go with her (but good that i didn't, because jenna was in rochester anyway)
friday was a delightfully full work day, with a full 6 hours of work (yeah, i generally only work 4 hours a day these days). my lessons with margaret are almost over, which is nice because then i can have an actual friend afterwards. i knew i would have saturday off, so i tried to put together a group of 10+ girls to head over to k st lounge, because if we can get 10 ladies or more, they give us a free bottle of champagne, a round of shots and a table. that's not a bad way to be. unfortunately, not everyone else had gotten thursday off, so one by one all of my girlfriends (and their girlfriends) backed out, citing exhaustion and the cold they inevitably caught from being on the mall (a cold i am valiantly fighting off). so, instead i went and met up with lisa as she was getting off work. which was a little silly, because she was wearing work clothes, and i was wearing a pencil skirt, 3 inch heels and a fitted vest. eh :)
we wandered around north dupont and south u st., looking for a lesbian bar for lisa, all to no avail. finally we gave up and went to the black cat (because everyone we asked told us it was a les bar. really?!). we did a couple rounds, danced to old school rock, stared at the pretty people when they wandered by, and at about 1:30 i gave in to thomas's invitations and cabbed up to adams morgan for shots of black label. i think it's the first time i've enjoyed myself at bossa. we did a few rounds (on him, because he is a generous evil genious), and danced until they kicked us out, then hopped over to the diner to sober thomas up before he tried to drive home. poor myra must have had her head spinning between all the messages we were sending her :)
saturday i had no hangover! yay me! unfortunately, i hadn't gotten home until 5:30am, so i clearly and easily slept till 1pm. then i decided it was about damn time to start organizing my room. i got about halfway through the effort before mike showed up, and we spent the rest of the afternoon laying around and watching hulu before he had to meet up with rob for the legwarmers show. which was just fine, because i was meeting up with erin and brock for dinner over at domku. which was very very nice because i 1: got my air mattress back, which makes my bed sleepable again, and 2: i love erin and brock.
i also found out i really like buckwheat, or at least the type they serve there. it's like crunchy rice or soemthing. also, it is the first time i've eaten candied onions and genuinely enjoyed them. infact, i loved everything about their potato dumplings. you would have been impressed. i ate a gourmet meal, and ate all of it. no picking or eating around anything!
sunday was met with waking up at 8:30 am, meeting with zach and working on his english homework, then the 4 hour stretch with haley and jilli, and closing it up with logan (who is the definition of grace in the face of frustration and confusion). i had hoped to get to the snfc movie (both parts of che) before it started, but they were sold out by 6pm, so that didn't happen :(
then i thought "hey. dinner with mike", but no. and tina was still in boston. and jeff was on a ski trip. and pete was in tahoe. and lisa was at work. so, i came home, made spaghetti and watched rambo with jason (huh. the first movie he was just a nutjob going crazy on an american town).
i am still trying to not get sick, but it's not happening so well.
immediately afterward i had a painful, painful stomach ache, that only got worse through thursday. luckily, thursday was my day off, so staying in my bed and sleeping on the couch while i recovered was easy. i don't think my roomies believe i moved from the couch all day, but i swear, i did drag myself up to my frigid crows nest for a few hours before giving up and going back down. and then tina got home, after having a ridiculous dinner and conversation with aaron. i'm proud of her though. she came back, and the first thing she said to me was "wanna get out of town for the weekend?". the answer was, of course, yes. but i knew i'd have work all day sunday, so i had to say no instead. that didn't hold her back, tho. we hopped on line and after some fervent cross comparing of various flights, busses, car rentals and trains, we found her a round trip ticket to boston leaving friday night (yes, the next day) and returning sunday night for only $160!! so hard to not go with her (but good that i didn't, because jenna was in rochester anyway)
friday was a delightfully full work day, with a full 6 hours of work (yeah, i generally only work 4 hours a day these days). my lessons with margaret are almost over, which is nice because then i can have an actual friend afterwards. i knew i would have saturday off, so i tried to put together a group of 10+ girls to head over to k st lounge, because if we can get 10 ladies or more, they give us a free bottle of champagne, a round of shots and a table. that's not a bad way to be. unfortunately, not everyone else had gotten thursday off, so one by one all of my girlfriends (and their girlfriends) backed out, citing exhaustion and the cold they inevitably caught from being on the mall (a cold i am valiantly fighting off). so, instead i went and met up with lisa as she was getting off work. which was a little silly, because she was wearing work clothes, and i was wearing a pencil skirt, 3 inch heels and a fitted vest. eh :)
we wandered around north dupont and south u st., looking for a lesbian bar for lisa, all to no avail. finally we gave up and went to the black cat (because everyone we asked told us it was a les bar. really?!). we did a couple rounds, danced to old school rock, stared at the pretty people when they wandered by, and at about 1:30 i gave in to thomas's invitations and cabbed up to adams morgan for shots of black label. i think it's the first time i've enjoyed myself at bossa. we did a few rounds (on him, because he is a generous evil genious), and danced until they kicked us out, then hopped over to the diner to sober thomas up before he tried to drive home. poor myra must have had her head spinning between all the messages we were sending her :)
saturday i had no hangover! yay me! unfortunately, i hadn't gotten home until 5:30am, so i clearly and easily slept till 1pm. then i decided it was about damn time to start organizing my room. i got about halfway through the effort before mike showed up, and we spent the rest of the afternoon laying around and watching hulu before he had to meet up with rob for the legwarmers show. which was just fine, because i was meeting up with erin and brock for dinner over at domku. which was very very nice because i 1: got my air mattress back, which makes my bed sleepable again, and 2: i love erin and brock.
i also found out i really like buckwheat, or at least the type they serve there. it's like crunchy rice or soemthing. also, it is the first time i've eaten candied onions and genuinely enjoyed them. infact, i loved everything about their potato dumplings. you would have been impressed. i ate a gourmet meal, and ate all of it. no picking or eating around anything!
sunday was met with waking up at 8:30 am, meeting with zach and working on his english homework, then the 4 hour stretch with haley and jilli, and closing it up with logan (who is the definition of grace in the face of frustration and confusion). i had hoped to get to the snfc movie (both parts of che) before it started, but they were sold out by 6pm, so that didn't happen :(
then i thought "hey. dinner with mike", but no. and tina was still in boston. and jeff was on a ski trip. and pete was in tahoe. and lisa was at work. so, i came home, made spaghetti and watched rambo with jason (huh. the first movie he was just a nutjob going crazy on an american town).
i am still trying to not get sick, but it's not happening so well.