7 posts tagged “autumn”

... but I also love Autumn, the bad example. :P

It's been a glorious weekend here in DC, and I fully took advantage of it. Well, almost fully - Friday doesn't count because I threw my back out and ended up leaving work early to go home and rest on the couch. Autumn came over and we watched some movies, gave ourselves home manis and pedis and gorged ourselves on the amazing food at the Amphora Diner in Vienna (which is right next to the incredible Amphora Bakery - their Amaretto Cake is to. die. for). Autumn and I had originally planned on going to this exhibition going on at the Kennedy Center called For the Capitol: A Projection by Artist Jenny Holzer, but since I really couldn't walk, we postponed it until Sunday.

It was a pretty full weekend. I took care of a lot of errands on Saturday, enjoyed the beautiful weather. It was crisp - sunny and mild with a beautiful breeze. Autumn (Fall) is definitely upon us - you can feel the shift of seasons in everything. (I don't want to pay attention to the fact that its supposed to climb back into the 80s by the end of the week). Saturday night Autumn and I both had plans with the boys, but we had another chick day on Sunday. I think we were both in need of some together-time - it seems our schedules have been so busy lately that we haven't been able to have enough of it - and some serious retail therapy. We had intentions of going to see the School House to White House exhibit at the National Archives, but we back-burnered it - again. We were putting it off all summer until the deluge of tourists subsided, and that's definitely happened, but the exhibition runs until January, so we're not in any terrible hurry. So anyway, we finally made our way to Georgetown, where we walked through the shops, had some mediocre crab-cake lunch at Third Edition and then shopped some more. We also did a lot of talking/venting about men/life in general, and paired with the retail therapy, was just what the Doctor ordered. Although we didn't really buy anything, the shopping atmosphere was enough. I did try on these amazing shoes at Bebe, and I was tempted to actually shill out the money for them, but they didn't have my size. Apparently Bebe doesn't make shoes in half sizes, and I fell right in the middle of two whole sizes... <sob!>

So after that, Autumn and I wandered around Georgetown. There are so many incredible homes there. And some crazy-ass doorknockers too. We saw a creepy looking fox/wolf knocker, and then the next house had a Moby Dick/Flipper looking thing. Bananas-crazy, people, bananas-crazy. We walked around for a long time, worked up some mileage, walked through the Georgetown campus and saw the exorcist stairs. We also managed to disturb the peace on Prospect Street - Autumn started making sounds that were eerily comparable to a turkey's gobble. I couldn't walk - or breathe - I was laughing so hard, and inevitably, the snort surfaced, which only made us laugh harder. It was funny, but man, we could NOT get a hold of ourselves. Once we finally did calm down, I asked Autumn to repeat the noise, and she did, and a dog up the street barked in response, and I lost it all over again. This was in addition to the wonderful cacophony of sounds I had created earlier, including the famous goat and - if I may say so myself - a very good interpretation of the cars driving over the cobblestone streets of Georgetown. All in all, it was a beautiful day, a perfect day to walk around and enjoy the city. Autumn and I agreed that it was one of those days that makes you feel so lucky to live here. It was almost too perfect.

After traversing a giant section of Georgetown, we wandered over to Foggy Bottom, walked around GW's campus until dusk fell, and then made our way over to the Kennedy Center.

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Then it was time to head home, because we were underdressed and freezing, and because it was getting late and we were pretty tired. But more than anything we were hungry, so we stopped at Potbelly to get some food. I got a "Pizza on Wheat" and had some peppers thrown in to spice it up.

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Yeah, I definitely fell off of the wagon this weekend with food and whatnot. I couldn't work out because of my back, and I definitely gorged myself on a ton of rich food. Oh well, you only live once and I'd rather be chubby and happy than skinny and hungry ;) 

So for those of you not familiar with it, last week was Restaurant Week in DC. Restaurant week comes once a year, in August, and participating restaurants offer fixed-price lunches and dinners - $20 gets you a three course lunch and $30 gets you a three course dinner. You can eat at some of the best (and priciest) restaurants in town. The Restaurant Week menu generally contains less than the normal menu, and some of the items may be of a slightly lower quality than normal, but you get what you pay for, and the restaurants have to accomodate the lower pricing somehow, right? This Restaurant Week I went to two different restaurants. Autumn went to three, and I'm pretty sure she's going to rate all of her experiences on her blog. So here are my reviews...

Last Thursday we went to Zola which is at the International Spy Museum. They specialize in American cuisine. The restaurant is very nice... its primarily a brown and red color scheme, and the overall atmosphere is fairly modern. I overheard someone saying they thought it was a little campy, but that's part of it's charm, considering its location (at the International Spy Museum). Autumn and I sat in front of a huge window that looked out at the National Portrait Gallery - it was a very nice view. We started with drinks - we both ordered the Blue Sting (fresh Blueberries, Mango flavored Rum, Blueberry Honey, crushed mint, limes and white cranberry juice). It was excellent, although we couldn't tell at all that it was alcoholic. We questioned whether or not they gave us virgin cocktails, but still very good. Then for appetizers, I ordered Truffled Sheep Ricotta Tortelloni (fresh anise crema, truffles, shaved manchego) and Autumn got an order of the Tuna Tartar (spicy lime vinaigrette, cucumber salad, whipped lemon cream and giant taro chips). They were both delicious. I definitely helped Autumn eat hers for various reasons, but the tuna was absolutely delicious. Then for entrees Autumn ordered Lamb which she said was delicious (I'll take her word for it, I'm not quite big on lamb) and I ordered Lobster Roll. Now, in their defense, the waiter did warn me that my dinner was going to come served in a "hot dog bun," but I thought he was joking. Seriously. But he wasn't... my New England Style Lobster Roll (toasted almonds, mint, ginger vegetable slaw and crispy fries) came in a toasted bread folded up into hot dog shape. It was really good, but I felt sort of like the little kid at the adult's table eating french fries in a restaurant that was so nice. But the food was delicious. And then to top the evening off, I ordered Lemon Chiffon Pudding with Raspberries and Autumn ordered Bananas Berg (baked Alaska meets bananas foster). Autumn's dessert looked very good, but I was very, very happy with my own. The Lemon Chiffon Pudding was resting under a wonderful cake covering, and it had just the smallest, perfect sized dollop of delicious cream on top, with 3 raspberries nestled on top. It was fabulous, and I will certainly have it again in the future. Overall, I was very happy with our dinner at Zola - although I could have done with a different waiter. Ours was very nice, but slightly creepy - he hovered a lot, but never actually delivered anything to our table.

Yesterday Autumn and I went to Cafe Atlantico, which is actually around the corner and not very far from Zola. I was very impressed when I got to Cafe Atlantico. It's very bright, very open and airy, and for awhile I thought it was a lot larger than it actually is because of their amazing use of mirrors. The space has been utilized extremely well. So anyway, we started with drinks, non-alcoholic for both of us. I got the limeade and Autumn got the mint limeade. They were both excellent, kind of like virgin mojitos, especially Autumn's. Then we got the guacamole, because we were afraid that if we didn't, we'd be on all of our friends' hit lists. They prepare it tableside and make it to your spice specifications. It's served with soft tortillas, which was interesting, but very good. It was excellent and so worth the extra cash - sadly, the guacamole is not included on the restaurant week menu. Then we both had the mixed green salad with herbs, cherry tomatoes, crispy “worms.” The worms are actually little pieces of puffed, fried rice. Very good... The whole salad was very good. I was very sad when it was all gone. ;) Then we moved on to the entree. The kitchen and waitstaff must have this planned perfectly, because our food took just the right amount of time to be brought out to us - not so long that we were starving for it, but just long enough that our salads and guacamole had settled. Autumn ordered the Mexican Torta (Chopped steak sandwich with black beans, avocado, Mexican crema, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese and fried egg on a sesame bun) and I ordered the Sandwich de Salmón con Malagueta (Seared salmon with salmon salad, cucumber and mixed chips). I'm pretty sure Autumn thought hers was delicious, although definitely more food than one girl can handle. Mine was out of this world. I only ate half of it though because I wanted to save room for dessert. I had the rest of my sandwich for lunch at work today and it was just as good on the second day. Then finally, for dessert, we both ordered the Choco-Banana (Warm Chocolate cake with Venezuelan chocolate flan, banana foam and fresh banana lime salad). It was out of this world. The chocolate mousse that everything was nested on tasted like it was made with dark chocolate, the banana lime salad was like nothing I've ever tasted before, the banana foam tasted like a fresh banana, and the flan... oh the flan. It was this incredible little column of chocolatey glory and gooey goodness in the middle of all these amazing pieces. It was perfection, absolute perfection. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. In fact, my sweet tooth is salivating so much that I would love to go to Zola and get the Lemon Raspberry Chiffon for an appetizer and then go to Cafe Atlantico for Choco-Banana as an entree/dessert. Mmmmmm.....

Cafe Atlantico has actually extended their restaurant week menu and prices into this week because so many people wanted reservations, and I could easily go back for round two. I'm already dying for next year's Restaurant Week :)

Well, I'm exhausted, but I haven't posted in a few days, so I figured I would make the effort to do so. I apologize if this is slightly incoherent...

The week was a good one. Other than being overly caffeinated to make up for the lost sleep on Tuesday night, things were fine. I had to take a drug test for my job on Thursday, which meant that I was able to leave the office for an hour to get to the lab and pee in their cup. I'm sure I'll be fine, however, one of my co-workers told me about her husband's friend who had tested positive for cocaine - not because he was ON cocaine, because he wasn't - but because he had had tonic water and apparently that shows up as cocaine in the test. This gave me a slight paranoia because I had helped myself to a very nice Tanqueray and Tonic at my aunt's bbq over the weekend. So I asked the lady at the window when I signed in about it, saying I had heard, and its probably urban legend, but I had to ask anyway. She just looked at me, shook her head, and said no, tonic water does not show up as cocaine, lol. So now if any of you had ever wondered... there's your answer.

The rest of the week went by in a blur. I thought it might go slowly, but I had enough people asking me tough questions, and enough things thrown at me, that I was able to keep busy. On Thursday night after work, I met Autumn and my roommate for dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill (i tried to link it, but Vox was being a little funny...). The food was really good, and so was the company. Before we knew it, it was almost 10pm and we all had to get home because we had work in the morning.

Friday was a good day. I was looking forward to a low key night, which it was. For the most part. The day that I moved all my crap in, Autumn came over with a bottle of this awesome and cheap champagne to celebrate. So we put it in the refrigerator and went to dinner. By the time we got back from dinner, neither one of us was in the mood to drink it because we both had to be up. So it stayed in the fridge. We never got a chance to drink it until last night. Which we finally did while watching The Bourne Identity and knitting. I know, we're so domestic, lol. But halfway through the movie, we got a little hungry. So we decided to walk to IHOP down the road. We had a late night breakfast and we both felt like we had rocks in our stomachs. I thought Autumn was going to end up sleeping on my bed, but somehow she found the energy to make it home. I, however, could not even keep myself awake long enough to hear from Autumn to let me know she got home safely. She did call, however, and I woke up enough to realize that she was safe :)

Today we were going to do all sorts of fun things, like check out this exhibition at the National Archives that we both want to see and go shopping in Georgetown and partake of all the fun festivities around the District to celebrate Bastille Day. Well that plan got shot to hell. We decided to wait on going to the National Archives since the exhibition is open until January. We're going to wait until tourist season slows down a bit. And then we decided to just go shopping in Old Town Alexandria instead. It was fun, and I got some things I needed. I didn't spend much though, as its still 10 days until my first paycheck :) Anyway, at one point I was in the dressing room trying something on, and my ponytail had slipped. So I went to put it back up and when I was winding the elastic around my hair, it snapped and went flying over the divider into the next dressing room. I accidentally attacked my neighbor. We had a nice little laugh about it, but I never actually did see who she was, lol.

After we did everything we could in Old Town, we headed over to Pentagon City. Autumn and I are extreme shoppers - it takes awhile to tire us out. So we had a good time - I only bought things that I needed or that I had set out to get today. And I really didn't spend all that much. I got all clothes for work, which is good, because its what I needed. We finally realized we were hungry so we went to find something that would satisfy us both. We went to this Asian Bistro where I had sushi and she had drunken noodles, so we were both happy. We ended up shopping for so long though that we actually did tire ourselves out and we were really late to go out and partake of the festivities. So we went back to her place and chilled for awhile before I set out for home. All and all, not a bad day. But a very tiring one.

I've also got some non-shallow things to talk about today. Last month I posted about a church in South Carolina that had looked down it's nose upon other beliefs. I talked about close-mindedness and how infuriating it is to me that there are people out there who are so ignorant about other beliefs and find anything other than what they believe to be absolutely wrong with ensuing condemnation. Shortly after I made that post, I went to church with my family, and during our priest's sermon, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He was talking about Paganism (and generalising like the best of them) and Pagan rituals and was basically putting them down. Now, seeing as I'm open to all beliefs, and I actually have very close friends who have beliefs that ARE Pagan, or similarly aligned without the title, I was a little offended. I couldn't believe that my own priest was doing this. (My priest is a really great guy, very funny, very nice, so I was even more shocked at this sermon.) I was pretty upset and I wasn't going to go to church again, I was actually going to take my membership elsewhere (this is the church that I grew up in, so its a BIG deal to me). My family asked me kindly to please come a few more times before I make any rash decisions, which I will do when I make it back home.

So anyway, today, one of my aunt's calls me and tells me about yet another closeminded attack on people's beliefs, this one coming from the Pope. It was in an article in my hometown's local paper the other day. The Pope allowed a document to be released that says that "other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation." That seems to be the ultimate statement of supremacy for someone who should be working with the other religions and beliefs in the world, not against them or saying that they're not true religions.

Again, I say, I find it incredibly amazing that there are Christians in this world, who are "supposed" to welcome everyone - no matter what - with open arms, who are so small minded and blinded by their fear of the what they don't know that they have to act out in such a way. They're basically saying, "Unless you believe the same things we believe, we're better than you. You're not worthy." Seriously, what is religion all about? Because I think we've all lost sight of the higher meaning...

I would say more, but I fear that my coherence has fallen below a level sufficient enough to continue posting thoughtfully.

<contented sigh> Yes, Harry Potter is a naughty, naughty boy ;) He kept me up until 3:30 this morning. And he absolutely wore. me. out. :D

Yes, although I have a dayjob (I'm still getting used to that, hee hee), which I worked all day yesterday and then had to be at by 8:15 this morning, I went to the opening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night this morning. It. Was. Awesome. But then, of course I'm going to say that, because I'm entirely addicted to Harry Potter.  But really, it was awesome.  Nine theaters at one complex all showing HP5 simultaneously, and I'm pretty sure they were sold out.

WOW! Its been awhile since I've posted. So much has happened...

Where to begin, where to begin...

Well, for starters, I began my new job yesterday. Yep. And I ADORE it. I am the new Law Librarian at the Wirtz Labor Library in the Department of Labor. Its a pretty cool gig. And I work with really awesome people and I'm going to be challenged daily and I absolutely love it. I couldn't be happier. Now, I know what you're saying... "she'll be singing a different tune in another month or so." But skeptics beware! I truly think I made the right decision in taking this job. Sure, the salary is a little lighter than the other offer I had, and sure, I won't get to work from home at all, but I'm still making a decent (amazingly decent) salary, I get 16 personal/vacation/sick days AND I get all 10 federal holidays off. So I'm not complaining about having 26 days off a year. Nope, not at all. AND I love what I'm doing and I love the fact that its a challenge. I'm totally in love with my job :)

I got my ID badge today, which is great because now i don't have to go through visitor's security and try to prove that I'm a new employee, and I won't need an escort to get to my own office (yep, I also have my own office! so cool!). Its only a temporary badge though. I'll get my real one once my background check is completed. Call me crazy, but I'm completely geeked about the fact that I need a background check for my job, hee hee!

Let's see, what else has happened. Well, once I received the offers last week, I went shopping with Autumn and bought shoes and a book. I want to take a minute to send a big thank you to Cupcate for bringing Candy Girl to my attention. I DEVOURED it... in under 12 hours I read the whole damn thing from cover to cover. I didn't do much else, but it was totally worth it! I laughed out loud in a bunch of places and I couldn't put it down.

I spent the 4th of July with my family in PA, hung out with my Baba (grandmother) a LOT (which, as dorky as it makes me, always makes me super happy. I LOVELOVELOVE my family and I especially LOVELOVELOVE hanging out with my Baba). My aunt had a HUGE picnic at her house on Saturday and there were over 50 people there... so I basically got to see all of my extended family and friends in one go, which was excellent, and then I returned (with kitty, yay!) to Virginia to catch some sleep and start work.

Last night I had dinner with a friend who was in town for job stuff, and tonight i'm having dinner with Autumn in Old Town Alexandria, and then we're going to see Harry Potter when it opens at 12:01. Yep, I've kept it closeted from the blog world long enough. I am a Harry Potter addict. True-blue, certifiable, 100% nutjob for Harry Potter. I've been re-reading all 6 of the books in preparation for the new (and final! <sob>) book next week and if I would have had more time, I would have marathoned all of my Harry Potter DVDs in preparation for tonight. Im so excited!

Ok, now that I've completely embarrassed myself, I'm going to get going. I have to fight the traffic to get to Autumn's and to dinner. And my diva-of-a-stomach is none too pleased with me right now. Cheers all!

...And so serendipitous too!

Let me start from the beginning. I picked up Autumn at the airport on Thursday night and we met Jon for a late dinner. After a few hours, we were all rather tired, so we all headed home. It was nice to have Autumn back in the apartment. I don't know if it was weird for her, but I can say that I kept wanting to go into her closet to borrow some clothes (forgetting of course that all of her clothes are now at her new apt. and that the closet is pretty empty, lol).

I had to work Friday so I met up with Autumn after work and we started doing what we do best when we're together... shopping! After some successful purchases downtown we headed for DSW, Marshalls and then over to the Mall. I actually made it through the day without buying shoes, which was really sad because I was really looking forward to buying a new pair of shoes. I did manage to buy myself a new toy however, so it wasn't a total loss of a day.

On the mall we got behind a car with a license plate that said YAY*BITS, and Autumn and I almost died. We tried to get a picture of it, but everytime we got close, her camera turned off because the batteries were so low, lol. Then we tried with her camera phone, but it just wasn't working. But we had a good laugh about that. It was a recurring theme for the rest of the evening...

After we tired ourselves out shopping, we tried to get some food. After some trials and errors (aka 45-50 minute wait times) we ended up just eating at Panchero's. But on the way there from the mall, we got stuck in some traffic at the light to turn left onto State from Eisenhower. We were sitting there and sitting there, and commenting on how long the light was taking. It was weird, and then the car in front of me put their car in reverse. The reverse lights came on, and Autumn and I both just sat there, trying to understand what was going on. And then they actually started backing up. I didn't know what was going on, but i reacted quickly... I said "nono, nonononono" and then I honked the horn. Autumn almost fell out of the passenger side door she was laughing so hard. It was really hilarious. It turned out there was a car broken down in the turning lane, and no one had enough room to just go around. Michigan drivers like to get right up under your bumper when you're waiting at a light, so that was the need for everyone to back up to get out. Anyway, that also became a recurring theme for the rest of the evening...

So anyway, we finally made it to Panchero's. For some reason, it was pretty dead on a Friday evening. After dinner, we went home and got ready to go out for some trashy fun in Ypsi. It wasn't as trashy as the last time we were there, which was very nice, but we had a good time. Hardly spent any time in Club Divine, but Pub 13 was actually pretty bumpin' so I didn't feel like I missed out too much on shaking my butt.

After a very late and very crazy night, I managed to crawl into bed around 5:00. I slept until 9:30 and then got up and started packing. Sadly, I wasn't going to get to spend much time with Autumn in Michigan - I had to head to DC for my PMF Exam - the exam wasn't until Monday, but the cheapest ticket I could find had me leaving on Saturday afternoon. So I said goodbye to Autumn and and headed on my way - she had a wedding to go to anyway - and off I was. It felt like the flight took forever, but that's only because we had to wait in line to be de-iced before we could take off.

When I finally landed in DC, it was absolutely beautiful. The sun was shining (which is was not doing in Michigan) and it was 57 degrees, according to the pilot. I took off my scarf and my coat while I was waiting for the metro. It was really funny though because there was one woman who had her scarf wrapped around her face and up over her nose, a fuzzy hat on, and she was buttoning up her coat as far as it could possible go. Some people just don't know what real cold feels like :)

So off I went to Mark and Autumn's. It was really funny -  Autumn was going to be sleeping in my bed over the weekend and I was going to be sleeping in hers :) So anyway, I got to their place, chilled with Mark for a little and then we walked over to Old Town for a nice big dinner at Bertuccis. Then we headed home, got ready and headed out to meet up with Allison and Paul. It was a crazy night to say the least. We went to this bar that was pretty big, but was very nearly  something you might consider a dive, and stayed there for the night. Along the way we passed the Keg Bus, and took down the number for future reference, lol. So anyway, as always when I hang out with Allison and Paul, things were a little insane. But it was a really really good time.

Sunday I slept in late, and then was kinda tired. Instead of studying for my exam, I did everything possible to procrastinate. Mark had work to do as well, but luckily he was in a procrastinating mood as well. He taught me how to play Lego Star Wars on his computer, which was pretty hilarious. I was terrible at it, and I couldn't stop laughing. It was hilarious! When you killed the little storm troopers, they blew apart into little lego pieces, hahaha! Then, I don't know what I was doing, but I ran out of Mark's room and tried to shut the door behind me and went to run down the steps. I soon realized that something was very, very wrong. Mark's doorknob was still in my hand!!! Hahahahaha! Apparently it was already broken - I swear i didn't do it! So I realized that I still have the doorknob in my hand and i almost rolled down the steps I was laughing so hard. I think I as crying, too... it was hilarious! So then Mark was like, umm, can you let me out? Hahahahahahaha.... I had the working part of the doorknob and he only had the other side, which was actually on the floor, so he couldn't get out of his room, HAHAHAHAHAHA. I think I laughed for a good 20 minutes, it was just too funny.

My exam on Monday morning went well, I guess. I can't really say for sure. I felt like I did the best I could and its just a matter of OPM deciding if I have what they think it takes to make a good PMF. I actually fell asleep in the exam though. Yeah, I know, leave it to me. I was so exhausted form the weekend, and I even caffeinated myself with a yummy soy chai latte. But it wasn't enough. I made it through the first section, which was very reading heavy, and I was so tired that I used the extra time I had until we moved on to the next section to take a cat nap. I was sitting in the front row, which makes it even funnier. But I just put my head down on my arms and I napped. It couldn't have been more than 10 minutes, but it did me a world of good. I definitely felt more alert during the rest of the exam. I was really glad that I had gone business casual - there were a few people in suits, but most people were business cas... except for 3 of the people that were sitting near me. One looked like he had just rolled out of bed and came in wearing bedroom slippers, jeans with holes in them and a tattered hoodie. Another girl had on jeans with sequin embellishments, plasticy looking patent leather loafers, an old sweater and she was flipping her hair around like a regular cheerleader. And then another girl was wearing a tunic-y looking A&F pullover/hoodie thing, over jeans and I don't remember her shoes, but for some reason Ugg (uggly) boots come to mind. I was blown away... anywho...

So Allison wasn't able to meet up for lunch, but I was able to meet Mark for lunch. And this is when serendipity really made an appearance. I was telling Mark about the exam and everything and how it had gone, and then he told me about his morning meeting. Then we were talking about ASB and he asked me if I wanted a job. I was like "what kind of job? Part-time? Over ASB? what?..." and he told me it was a contract position doing some data gathering for a project that ALA is working on. I had actually seen the job when it had been posted, someone sent it around at SI, and I wanted to apply but flaked out and forgot. Well it seems as if they had a hard time filling the spot, so I ended up being lucky enough to just get it. It was awesome. So after lunch Mark took me on a tour of the ALA DC Office and I met his boss and supervisor and coworkers. They were all really nice people, and they seemed as excited as me to have found someone to fill the position.

Then I headed for home, packed up and headed to the airport. Things were relatively normal, and I was in a really good mood. It didn't take me long to get checked in and get through security, and before I knew it, I was on the plane. It was a pretty empty flight - I had 3 seats to myself. All was fine, and we were about 20 minutes early when we began our descent to DTW. We were getting closer and closer to being on the ground, I could see the buildings and the roads and stuff and I knew it wouldn't be long when all of a sudden the pilot yanked back on the controls and the plane felt like it went straight upwards. I seriously thought a wing was going to break off, and everyone got tossed around in their seats. So we started climbing again and after a few minutes the captain came over the loudspeaker and said, "Sorry for the missed attempt at a landing there folks, but there was another plane on the runway that would have been in our way." HOLY. CRAP. So yeah, it was pretty insane. And then we circled so long that we actually ended up landing on time, but whatever. I was just glad to be alive and on the ground, hee hee.

I then rendesvouz-ed in the airport with Autumn so that I at least got to spend a few minutes with her on her birthday. Then I headed out for home. It took me awhile to get home because it had been snowing pretty heavily and the roads were not in the best shape. But I made it, and did some homework before I headed to bed. I definitely needed sleep, and I still need sleep, so that's where I'm going to head now. But seriously, what a great weekend. I am so excited about the prospect of finding a job in DC and moving home to the east coast. And DC feels like home to me, I'm really comfortable there, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that things work out. Anyway, cheers!

Song of the day: "I Feel for You" John Kano Club Mix