#5319 - got what i need
i've been re-reading through old lj posts the past few days and have been finding old gems, like 2 years and now 2 days ago when i farted on someone by accident and cynicalscribe outed me (september 17, never forget), or when textureslut and i rapped out "just a friend" at greyplanet's going away party:
Click to viewfriday i finally got my dc license plates and registration. i headed over to the location in georgetown to get everything taken care of (which sucked, since traffic in georgetown is a nightmare, and while there was supposedly parking under the mall where the dmv branch is located, i couldn't find it so i ended up parking in a lot just up the street. $14! i ask you!), and after about a 2 hour wait at the dmv it was my turn.
one kind of nice thing about the dc dmv is that they have these webcams set up so you can see the line at each location to help you determine which branch to visit. unfortunately, the one at the georgetown location doesn't show all the people who got their number and decided to wait inside the mall rather than wait inside the actual dmv location for their turn. thankfully i got there before the lunchtime rush arrived.
i wasn't even sure that they'd be able to take care of what i needed since i had requested my title to be sent to a different location, and i wasn't sure if they would just keep it at the georgetown location or forward it to the southeast branch where i had requested it to be delivered. thankfully they had it, and $196 later i finally had my car registered and my actual dc license plates. it's funny, now when i see other cars with dc license plates, inside i'm pumping my fist in solidarity. i'm not sure if it's because now i know how much of a pain in the ass it is to navigate the dc dmv bureaucracy, or if it's because of the "taxation without representation" slogan we have on our license plates, or what.
later on friday i drove to pick festive up and take her to work at the columbia mall on my way to baltimore. i also stopped by the maryland motor vehicle location in columbia to drop off my maryland license plates, so that made it two dmv/mva locations in one day. add in the narrative i was reading about being on jury duty for the new york "rape cop" case to the dmv/mva blues and i was hating life. not really hating life, but maybe a little. as if the dmv/mva wasn't bad enough, i had to throw jury duty in there too.
went up to baltimore, parked not far from where the roller derby afterparty was to be held, then walked over to bad decisions to get my drink on and kill time before the charm city vs. boston bout was to start around 8. i hadn't been to bad decisions in several months so i talked with john about what i'd been up to and watched the stream of derby bouts on his tv. walked back to du burns arena, met up with asavas, and festive showed up and we watched ccrg stomp all over boston with a final score of something like 191 to 88. i didn't exactly mind being in the front row of the bleachers, especially when all the roller girls would go by in front of me - michelle said that i was going to hurt my neck the way i kept ogling them as they'd go by, and i figured i'd get whiplash, haha.
we went to the afterparty, but michelle and i were only the 3rd and 4th people there and it seemed pretty swanky for a derby afterparty. while we were there, i also had a bombshell dropped on me that i had suspected for a while but wasn't so sure about; michelle was telling me how yes, carrie does have a new boyfriend and it's probably a lot more serious than i might have thought - he's one of her old coworkers, and that they had been seeing each other for longer than i had thought (they had both gone on her vacation out west together in late july, so it wasn't like they had just started seeing each other before i saw her in mid-august). i had thought that someone else might have gone with her on her trip but wasn't sure (we had started to talk about her vacation when we last met but were interrupted), so hearing this just made things a bit more real for me. i felt bummed out so we figured it was probably time to go. michelle felt bad for telling me, but i knew it was something i wanted to know and would probably discover sooner or later.
my sad mood continued for the rest of the night and most of the rest of the next day - at one point, michelle took my phone away from me during lunch at chick-fil-a and wouldn't give it back until i finished eating, just to get me to stop moping and eat even though i didn't have much of an appetite. i'm still trying my best to work out and talk about my feelings so i don't keep it all bottled up inside me. mostly though this revelation makes me just feel like i've been completely replaced, no matter how true that actually is or not. there's a lot that i know i'm reading into things and making assumptions about, and i'm trying not to read into things or make assumptions, but i still ultimately end up feeling pretty awkward and (to some degree) useless. :/ i'm feeling a little better about it today, though. still, it doesn't help that any dates that i do go on don't end up working out at all, so i end up thinking that it's something to do with me, even though i know that's a dumb thing to think.
on saturday after getting my new license plates on my car, i wanted to see what zenmetsu and bruno_boy were up to, but dan didn't answer his phone and when i called dave he said that he and dan were planning to meet with our friend william for dinner to catch up since they hadn't seen william in about a year or so. well, just then he got a text from dan saying he was sick, so michelle and i ended up meeting with dave and the three of us headed downtown. i wanted to stop in bicyclespace, but we would arrive shortly before they closed, so we walked through town to get smoothies. the smoothie place ended up closing about 15 minutes before we arrived, so we settled for coffee before we headed over to bethesda for dinner with william. we told him how we were doing and what we've been up to, and filled him in with details about dan and tom. i pretty much told william about everything from my year-in-review entry.
after dinner, william headed back home and the three of us headed back to my apartment. as we arrived at the catholic university metro stop and walked past a gaggle of college girls, michelle yelled at me "NO, GLENN! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! THEY ARE 10 YEARS YOUNGER THAN YOU!"
we thought about going to meridian pint for drinks, but it was getting late and dave wasn't feeling 100% and i didn't want to be out too much later or spend much more money so i took michelle back home.
today i was planning on going back to bicyclespace, or going to baltimore to bad decisions, or running some errands, but after waking up later than planned and with the weather getting colder i figured i'd be responsible and head home to annapolis to pick up my jackets. turned out i arrived home just in time to help mom and dad unload groceries from the car (free lunch!). dad and i watched this movie he got called "woman in the moon", and after seeing how they were wondering in the film what's inside the moon, i thought it sounded a little like GRAIL, and it seems like there might be an interest among some of the NASA tweetup attendees i know around the dc area for me to host a movie night.
mom and dad asked me to stay for dinner (free dinner!), and i thought it was funny how dad said how they probably eat better when i come home to visit and they said that i should come by to visit more often. mom keeps saying i should buy this house for sale in the neighborhood, hahaha… my response was "but you just told me i had to live in dc for a long time now that it's taken me this long to get my license plate from the dmv!" mom also suggested trying to get involved in some of the student events at catholic university (i dunno, it made no sense to me), and i joked that maybe i can find a class to join for kicks and have my work pay for my tuition. i also told mom how michelle was all "NO THOSE COLLEGE GIRLS ARE 10 YEARS YOUNGER THAN YOU" and mom's reaction was "what's wrong with that??", which i thought was funny since it was pretty much my reaction anyway. she also thought it was funny that michelle was thinking of following her on twitter and was wondering if my mom would end up following her back. yes, my mom is on twitter, and my friends think it's hilarious and awesome.
…and now it's about 90 minutes past when i originally wanted to go to bed, so i ought to get my sleep on. i need to call feisty_fitz sometime soon too before she has to go back on her boat! maybe i'll do that today after work.