well kids. i'm home from my magical mystery tour. and i'm just going to use a numbered list to describe it. kthanxbye.
1. i love DC. i love it so much. its been so long since i've gotten to spend any time there. but now i think i'm old enough to see it for what it is. i love the energy and architecture. granted i mostly only got to see things early in the morning and late at night, but still. i love all the old buildings and the wrought iron and the trees. i'm so glad for all the ppl in that city, there are still beautiful trees. i hate the traffic. i sorta got the streets figured out but i'm so directionally challenged. i love the metro. i want to move to the suburbs and work in the city. i've been looking seriously at jobs.
2. the hotel was quite nice. we had issues getting the internet to work, but whatever. i had an amazing view as my room was a corner and had windows on an angle. my bed was the most magical thing i've ever slept upon. and the breakfast each morning was amazing x12
3. the meetings were ridiculous. we definitely worked 10-12 hr days all week, including the work we had to do in the evenings after the meetings. it was a pain in the ass to get in and out of the building on top of everything, since we basically needed to be stripsearched. also, i found it interesting that the Energy department has shitty old energy-inefficient buildings.
4. we ate amazingly on this trip. the best thai i'd ever had. maryland crab in annapolis (more on this later), the craziest food at this tapas place that included goat and grasshopper (yes, i did just say grasshopper) tacos and lamb drenched in chocolate chili cheese sauce.
5. with some of my overtime money i bought the greatest pair of boots on the planet. they are comfortable and make me feel pretty, two things that dont normally go together when discussing footwear.
6. driving past the capitol and the monuments, etc on your way to work is a great feeling. especially early in the morning before most of the city is awake.
7. we didnt have time really to do any touristy stuff. we were going to try and go to the Nat'l Portrait gallery on friday, but it was closed. just like how when i was little and all i wanted to see was the ruby slippers from wizard of Oz and i dragged my family to the american history museum to see them and they werent there bc they were out on loan to some other museum. i'm still bitter about that and really want to see those damn shoes. but no. no touresty stuff this time. but thats ok really. we spent enough time in a car and lost that i got to see the outside of a lot of places. and sometimesi think i like the outside of the buildings just as much.
8. we met up with some friends in the evenings up there and had a good time. i played skeeball and shuffleboard in a bar, and if that just doesnt scream happiness then i dont know what does. i got drunk that night and did some things i wish i hadnt, but i did and cant take it back. one of those includes getting cut with a shard of glass and bleeding all over the place. not pleased.
9. i really wanted the trip to make me so busy i couldnt think of the shit going on in my life here, but that didnt happen. just like it didnt happen when i went to the beach. each day i wake up and think that this time it really cant get any worse. and then it does. i think i'd rather get beat up by a stranger than this. on the other side of the scales, bert has been incredibly nice to me all week and i dont know what to think about that. it was a week of complete polar opposites and it makes my head explode.
10. non-trip related but Post Secret is good this week. i particularly liked the one of the North Star.
11. we stopped in annapolis for a night on the way home to see a friend. i love annapolis as much if not more than DC. everything about it is ideal. and the shoping is great. the bars however are either crazy drunken cadets or cougars on the prow. you'd think those two would combine. it was very nice to see all those young men in uniform. it was a very nice stop over, though, with more amazing food in my life. and we went to this fantastic jewelry store and i bought these 4 bracelets that have the mark twain quote (a bastardized version anyway) on each of them. i think i'll probably just always wear Love Like You've Never Been Hurt and Live Today Like it's Your Last. and i also picked up this necklace, that was inspired by an Einstein quote about a view from a star (Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions) and to me it looks like the north star. so i like that. call me uselessly sentimental.
12. yesterday was so dreary and i was just so exhausted that i didnt go out for halloween. i had to much on my mind and was just so punchdrunk that i couldnt handle being around drunk and jovial people. i needed to crawl back into my cave and be a hermit for a little bit. today i guess i need to sort out everything and get back to real life. i've got a long week ahead of me including my favorite pasttime of going to the doctor. at least the end of the week i get to see the transsiberian orchestra in charleston. though i need to dump a ticket off if anyone knows of someone who'd like to go. i bought one that i now dont need. oh well. those are the breaks.
13. i'm glad the time changed today and i got to sleep in. getting up at 5 everyday is not for this kid. i want to stay in bed all day today, but for all the wrong reasons.
14. i may have offended a greenpeace representative on friday. we were hungry and cranky and just wanted to get our lunch when he occosted us to try and get us to give money. i like to think i do my share for the environment as it is so we all told him no thank you and that we were late for lunch. this did not deter the man and he told us that this was a global issue and that polar bear were so hungry they were eating there own young. at this point that tiny switch in my brain that i try to stear clear of switched off and i straightfaced told the man that i was so hungry right now that if he didnt shut up i would probably eat MY own young. and then walked off. apparently he was shocked. oh well.
15. i realized i have a lot of irrational OCD tendencies that i'm not as aware of since i live alone. but spending a week with a friend, all that comes out. i still had my own room and all, but we were working or hanging out 20 hours a day. (yes, that means i only got approx four hours of sleep a night. you see why princess is so cranky.) i dont like walking thru doors first of places i'm not familiar with. i dont like walking to the left of someone. i have to check to make sure i have everything (room key, metro card, ect) at least 5 times before i can leave. i have to leave at least 1 light on when i leave because someone could be waiting to kill me in the dark. even in a kingsized bed i still sleep on one size. i have to crumble crackers while thy are still in the package before i open it sothat i dont have to touch cracker crumbs. (yes. i am nutso). all in all, while it was a good time, i am glad to be home. i just want everything else thats going on to resolve itself so i can go on with things.
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