When I'm feeling joyful, my mind usually turns to one of three uninhibited images/feelings:

1. skipping/running along with friends and laughing
2. standing still with my eyes closed and arms outstretched, feeling the wind rush past
3. lying outside in swaying tall grass, watching the clouds drift by*

This weekend was joyous.  God exceeded my expectations - in ( Read more... )

I haven't run into lost tourists in a while, but today while running errands I spotted two elderly French couples consulting a map and looking very confused.  They were trying to get to the White House and had wandered over to Chinatown.  They also didn't speak much English so they had a hard time understanding my directions.  Finally I just ( Read more... )

My jersey is good for another 10 years! :D  And of course I only heard about the news after getting home from work.  It's not like I would frantically text my co-worker across the room during a meeting to check ESPN on his BlackBerry because I knew that some kind of last-minute press conference was being held.  I am a serious working professional.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night - I have a phobia about suffocating in my sleep when I'm very congested, which is not very conducive to peacefully drifting off to slumber.  I reluctantly awoke this morning, popped my contacts in, brushed my teeth, and went to change - only to discover that there was a dying, overturned cockroach on the ( Read more... )

Best parts about being really sick:

• Pei Pa Koa - I love this stuff.  Not sure if it works, but it sure tastes good.
• I have an excuse to not get up and run to answer the phone.  And I do mean run- we don't have enough landlines in the house so it's usually quite a distance to the nearest phone.
• My mom's chicken soup rice congee
• My dad volunteers to do ( Read more... )

(Except not really.)  Today was a flurry of goodbye emails, number crunching, turning in company property, mango mojitos, and.. ice skating?  Turns out there's a sponsored public session at Ballston on Tuesday afternoons - skate plus rental for just $1.  Pretty awesome if I do say so myself.  And I do say so, because I am unabashedly taking credit ( Read more... )

Is it sad that my last two instances of heartbreak have involved sports teams?  I don't know if that makes me pathetic or DC sports franchises pathetic.  (Probably both.)

But here's a feel-good story that affirms that my hockey crush is more than a pretty face :P  For people trying to keep track (aka Hannah), I bought a Backstrom jersey because he ( Read more... )

I'm always the most irrational at night, but this season-ending loss plus the prospect of having to work for 4 more months has left me in a state of misery like none other.  Props to Ovi for toughing it out in front of the media (who will surely pounce on the opportunity for more coverage of his championship woes, the toll of the Olympics, ( Read more... )

Excerpts from recent conversations:

Guy in his 50s who doesn't know how to pay a compliment: Whoa where are you going? America's Next Top Model? Looks nice!
[later]
Guy: Tyra's coming by for an interview later!
Me: Oh you want me to let someone named Tyra in?
Guy: Yeah she's interviewing you.
Me: Wait, what? Someone's interviewing me?
Other ( Read more... )

Stay classy on and around the ice, Montreal.  I'm curious to see what happens on Friday - I hope we respond a la Boston.  But yay, the Caps finally showed up for the playoffs :D

Today's poor life decisions come courtesy of formspring.  Poor life decision #1 was getting sucked in and signing up.  #2 was telling a certain someone about it and ( Read more... )