Author Archives: JJD
Sculpt
I may have found a cure (or at least a partial cure) for hating the cold and darkness of winter: It’s called Sculpt, and it’s a studio that offers yoga and spinning (i.e., indoor cycling) classes a couple of blocks from my office. It opened only a month or so ago, and one of my friends at the […]
Election Day
Election day today! After three-and-a-half hours standing in line outside in the cold (temps in the mid-30s), I’m happy to report that I have fulfilled my civic responsibility and participated in this democratic experiment. I missed a half-day of work, but with Virginia being a key battle-ground state, I think it was well worth it […]
Ballet boy
Today I pulled a Billy Elliot and went to ballet class. I didn’t go alone — it was my friend Amy’s idea. Amy and I have had a subscription to the modern dance season at the Kennedy Center for the past few years (remember Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey, and Keigwin + Company?), and we’ve also been watching a lot of dance-related […]
Les Miserables, or Here we go again
In case you haven’t heard, the musical Les Misérables is coming to a movie theatre near you. We’re essentially T minus however many days there are between now and December 25. [Cue cheering from musical theatre geeks and anyone who just wants to hear Hugh Jackman sing “Bring Him Home.”] As any self-respecting French-major would […]
Happy Halloween
I’m not much of a dresser upper lately. This year’s pre-Halloween costume parties were canceled due to the hurricane, and the law firm is way too Serious and Important for workplace costumes. But that doesn’t mean I can’t use the holiday as an excuse to wear awesome socks. Okay, fine, I admit they aren’t exclusively […]
Winding down the storm
As predicted, the storm is now on its way out. The strong winds are gone; rain continues, though significantly lighter than before. Public transit is scheduled to resume sometime this afternoon. Thankfully, my area seems to have come through relatively unscathed — I never lost power (though we had frequent flickers), nor did any of my friends that […]
Goodnight, storm
It’s late. I should go to bed. But I hate the idea of going to bed and having the storm be mostly gone by the time I wake up! If the earlier stages of the storm were like Christmas Eve (plus the apocalypse), this part of the storm is like the night of Christmas Day […]
Frankenstorm!
Okay, folks, it’s getting fun now! Around 5:30pm I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood to get a feel for the storm. It’ll still be an hour or so before Sandy actually makes landfall (probably just north of here, in the DE/NJ region), but the wind has really picked up and I wanted to see […]
Frankenstorm update
First, some background: Midnight 4:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Noon Now this local weather report: The non-Elijah fish waiting out the storm Elevator notice from the Management(with helpful proofreading marks from my fellow tenants)
Waiting for the storm
I’m getting conflicting messages. At 7:00pm, I received the following notice from WMATA: Two hours later, this one came in from the firm: Because I’m a lawyer, only the highlighted part applies to me; the rest is all for non-lawyer staff. For a firm that prides itself on its attention to detail, this […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 