Soon this cafe will close and I'll be waiting in the rain to meet up with my parents (to see The Big Short; the weather's been different this December) but really, this week has been fairly uneventful ( Read more... )

TUESDAY: after work, had just enough time to send some of my jeans to get fixed... before having a capirinha and tortilla soup at Pepita and then collapsing at my place for a while ( Read more... )

-Wednesday late afternoon I learned that my computer was finally fixed and available to pick up (needed to call to make an 'appointment' to do so and then trek over to Pentagon City, but at least transit didn't fail and I got my computer back ( Read more... )

That sore throat from Saturday night which was finally slowly receding? After work this evening, en route to trivia, it became clear what it was transforming into... the first awful cold of the season. (And the DAY before my flu shot was scheduled, too!)

*could use something going my way for a change*

After the past few months of adventures, I've received lots of interesting (and conflicting) advice about location. This ranges from advice about how GREAT the DC area is (and that my problems with it are mainly that I should live closer to the city center itself) to how I should IMMEDIATELY begin thinking about moving to the West Coast to the ( Read more... )

I will be without an actual computer until October, most likely the 5th.

At least I salavaged a fun evening out of the deal... but my computer is in the shop for the monitor issues and my LJ availability may be worse than usual for the next 2-3 weeks.

I'll probably give a more detailed post of what went on this week, but the main takeaways on how much they took out of me are as follows ( Read more... )

this was the type of week that had me, for the first time in a LONG time, questioning whether Arlington was the right place for me to live in this region ( Read more... )

FRIDAY EVENING: Shortly after my last post I did decide to enjoy just enough of the Columbia birthday festival for the free cake... before driving back to Baltimore, working out, and trying to enjoy the rest of my evening. The PLAN was to go out to Alewife around 11... but I just collapsed in bed for the night instead ( Read more... )

NOTE: The following post will be fairly disjointed; it's a post I should have probably made earlier this week but - reality got in the way.

( Just let me think and plan ;) )