Category DC
Cherry Blossom Ten Miler
My alarm went off this morning at 5:00am. A few minutes later I was eating a bowl of oatmeal and checking the weather report. I warmed up and stretched and pulled on my running gear (and then pulled it off, and back on, going through every possible permutation of shorts/tights/shirt/jacket/gloves before finally coming back to the outfit I’d originally planned […]
Hard at work (it’s a good thing no one can see what I’m actually typing)
By some magical shift in the stars, all of the projects I’m working on have managed to go into a lull at the same time. The lull will end tomorrow, and I’m sure the rest of the week will be perfectly busy, but for now it’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I’m at work, and I’m BORED. So […]
Ambiguous Debussy
Last night Amy invited me to an evening of music and conversation. It was put on by Grinnell College (where Amy did her undergraduate studies) and the format was a mix between concert, lecture and salon (in the 18th Century French sense of a social gathering where smart people sit around and entertain each other by being […]
Spring break weekend
What do Cancun and DC have in common? Spring breakers. Cancun gets the party-wild college kids; DC gets the school groups. They arrive in giant charter buses and troop through the city in matching t-shirts while learning about Our Nation’s Capitol. Oh, to be a student with regular buit-in vacations! Normally spring just rolls right by me — […]
Phone-less, again.
I am having the worst luck with iPhones. I’ve hade one for less than a year, and already I’ve lost two. The first time it fell out of my bag in a Crate & Barrel while I was shopping for shower curtains. This time it fell off my seat during a standing ovation at the Kennedy […]
All the happy things
I hope everyone had as good a weekend as I did. Here are the highlights: I. There’s nothing like blowing off work on a Saturday afternoon to eat some tasty barbecue with good friends. My original plan had been to spend the bulk of the day working, trying to get a head start on the […]
Inauguration Day
Today President Obama was inaugurated to his second term as president of the United States. Technically he was already sworn in, having officially taken his oath of office yesterday (January 20th being the prescribed Inauguration Day), but since yesterday was a Sunday, all of the public pomp and ceremony happened today. Four years ago I […]
Planes, paintings and long-lost relatives
Here’s a question from the “which Romantic hero(ine) are you” department: Have you ever moved across the country to where you think you are completely without kindred, only to discover that, in fact, you’ve got cousins in the neighborhood — and that you’ve already met them? I have. Turns out that plot point in Jane […]
Good friends, good food, and some very beginning ballet
Remember my little rant last week about friends and flakiness and sitting at home watching movies alone? Well, I’m happy to say that this weekend went much more smoothly. I. Yesterday morning dawned chilly and bright. I got up early and checked my work email — a slew of documents had come in overnight that […]
Rivers and Plantations
For the last day of Heather’s visit to DC, we decided to leave the museums and monuments behind (even if we’d tried, we wouldn’t have been able to see them all) and get out of the city for a while. We started the day with a drive up the Potomac River to see the Great Falls. From […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 