Author Archives: JJD
Live blogging the "pack and load" – update!
Seriously people, I wasn’t kidding about starving to death. Next time I’m going to hire a company that caters its moves. I fear this will be me before the movers are done.(image poached from here) I guess the real question is WHY ON EARTH DO I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF??? If I survive to move […]
Live blogging the "pack and load"
At 8:45 this morning three burly men with incomprehensible (possibly West Indian?) accents arrived at my door with approximately 400 cardboard boxes, unlimited rolls of packing tape, and a bunch of packing blankets. I gave them a quick tour of the apartment and they set to work. One guy headed into the bedroom, pulled […]
Don Quixote
The nice thing about having seasons tickets to the Kennedy Center’s ballet season is that they make taking a ballet break so much easier. No need to think about buying tickets or coordinating with friends while also juggling work — or in tonight’s case — packing. Instead, the tickets have been sitting on my counter […]
Organizing all the things
So my last day at the firm wasn’t actually my last day as an employee of the firm, just my last working day. Between now and the 25th I’m taking my remaining vacation days from last year and the handful of days that I’ve already accrued this year. I made a point, though, before leaving, […]
Last day
This move is getting real, folks! Yesterday was my last day of work at the firm. I finished transitioning all of my projects to other lawyers and spoke with the last of my clients who needed to know. At 5:00pm I turned on my “out of office” notice and headed down to a special farewell […]
Perfect weekend
There will be a special place in hell reserved for people who schedule moves away from DC during the springtime. [Er . . . hold on . . . I’m the one who scheduled this move. Let’s start again.] Whoever invented DC in the springtime deserves an award. Like, an Oscar for “best pairing of city and […]
Booked!
It’s official: This year’s installment of “Amanda and Jason tour the world” will take us to Japan and South Korea! For a minute there I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to take a big summer trip, what with the new job and all. But then I remembered that I negotiate things for a […]
Financial milestone
Guess what I just did! That’s right, folks — I just paid off the last of my student loans that I intend to pay off early! It’s kind of a big deal. When I graduated from law school six years ago, I was in debt to the tune of more than $160,000; my net worth was […]
Carolina Chocolate Drops
One of the great things about having cool friends is being introduced to the music they like. For example, tonight I went with Amy to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops in concert at the 9:30 Club. I’d never heard of them (despite the fact that they won a Grammy in 2012), but Amy had seen them […]
Monuments!
It’s official — we’ve finally (FINALLY) had our first bona fide spring weekend in DC. After yesterday’s warmish, blustery day, today dawned fresh and bright, full of sunshine and flowering trees trying oh-so-hard to break out of their wintry slumber. We took our time getting up and then made our leisurely way over to meet […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 