Wait

I'm waiting in the dentists office. I still can't believe I had to schedule this over my break in order for me to use sick leave. So dumb but whatever. Gotta do what I gotta do. Being home has been great with the exception of my mom, who has gone officially crazy. We are not getting along.

Oh dentist. I hope I still don't have any wisdom teeth.
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Fw: Columbia sucks: proof

The city where I grew up was written up in the New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/economy/22columbia.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Columbia%2520SC&amp;st=cse> yesterday. I told you guys it sucked down there! Ugh. I still CAN'T WAIT TO GO THERE IN 13 HOURS!! Only 13 hours!!!!



Also last night I hung out in Takoma Park and it is the Asheville of DC. Thank god I finally found it. I've been wondering where the hippies were.

cheap ass awesome

I just saved $40 by cutting my own hair. All I wanted was to fix my bangs. So easy!!!!!

internet whore

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Hi yes I now have twitter and I can blog and tweet from my phone. I am really dumb and a nerd.

haikus of the week

still sick with a cold
I hate everything ever
ready to go home

Christmas shopping time
finding cool things for people
did not get it done

online shopping click
your order will be shipped soon
the best thing ever

two more days of work
hopefully time will pass fast
I am over it

I need to get paid
rent is very expensive
cold medicine too

dishwasher is broke
what are we going to do now
wash wash wash wash wash

so close to the end
I can feel the plane leaving
Christmas don't be late

NYC weekend of awesome

Oh, oh. I don't even remember what happened last week. Friday night I skipped town and took a bus to New York City! I met up with C (who lives there) and we made preparations to have as much fun as possible over the next couple days. It's basically the most awesome thing in life that I can take a bus to NYC whenever I want for round trip $35-$40. It's a 4.5-5 hour bus ride, which is a little grueling after that 3rd hour, but man! Way worth it!

She lives in Brooklyn and I am officially and huge fan of "BK" - the non scary neighborhoods are way hip. On Saturday we went to Manhattan for some Christmas shopping. We hit up the Evolution Store, which was AWESOME - basically a standard Natural History Museum but all for sale. It was kind of weird because they have human skeletons for sale- how does that work? They had lots of seashells and rocks, freeze-dried animals, nuts, bones, way cool stuff. I found Christmas tree incense!!!

We also went to the Dwell Sample Sale because C works at Dwell!!! It was so much fun!!! The stuff there is so high end and unavailable to us (for real rich people cuteness) but since it was the sale we could actually buy stuff. I got this AWESOME weekend bag so that when I go to NYC every single weekend in the future I can use my way hip WEEKENDER. I'm pretty sure it would be the first bag stolen off the bus if a thief happened to be around when I'm traveling- but luckily I made it through the trip home. I got a lot of Christmas shopping done there which is way sweet since Christmas is 10 days away (?!!!)

C and I looked in lots of other stores and had super amounts of fun looking at all the crap that you can only get in NYC. We went to a holiday market and a farmers market that had TONS OF LOCAL APPLES for way cheaper than at the stupid Eastern Market in DC (ugh!) AND hot apple cider?!! omg. I got a huge thing of apple cider. Then we hung out with some really fat NYC squirrels. City squirrels really are the coolest because they are fatter and they are pretty tame. At that point two of the best things in life encountered each other, drinking fresh apple cider with some fatty squirrels. Way cool. We could say, "HEY SQUIRREL, HEY!" and they would come to you!!!

We met up with my homegirl L (from college) which was AMAZING because I hadn't seen her in a year! We went to a really cool Indian restaurant called Milon. It was really crazy, there are so many Christmas lights and pepper lights that you hit your head on them inside. They play crazy remixes of Indian music and if it's your birthday they have strobe lights and a special remix of happy birthday!! The food was very mild, which was kind of nice for Indian food because that way I could use all of the sauces on it without it being too spicy. I'm an official fan. Not to mention that it was super cheap. Afterwards we walked around (I had no idea where we were) and went to a bar.

Saturday was also Santacon for NYC. Santacon is a "Santa Convention" where anyone who wants to dresses up like Santa and meets somewhere and goes bar hopping all day long. Seriously, it starts at 10AM. We saw Santas EVERYWHERE. I tried and tried to find out where all the Santas were- I asked all the Santas I saw. They were all either too drunk to tell me or remember or they didn't know themselves. I even gave my phone number to a Santa to call me when he found the other Santas. Oh, Santas.

On Sunday we went to a cool "flea market" in Brooklyn which was a bunch of vintage and indie hipster vendors selling really cool crap. I miss that kind of stuff in DC; there is way more art and arty kind of stuff going on with young people in NYC. DC is very much suit-oriented, even with the young people. I love NYC with a thousand hearts but I will never trade the DC metro system for anything. We had a "fear/love" scale at my old job at Warren Wilson where you rate random things according to your fear or love of it. On my fear and love scale the NYC subway is way way way far down on fear. It is like a giant bathroom under the city, complete with bathroom tile. Holy god, I still have absolutely no clue where we were or where we went on it.

It'd be cool to have a fear/love scale for the blog. Maybe I will construct an image that will live on the side bar or something and as I blog I will add things to the fear/love scale. I miss that thing.

So all the fun wound down and I had to go to Chinatown to catch a Chinatown bus to go back to DC. Of course I hit up one of the Chinatown grocery stores because they have the most interesting stuff that you have never seen. I stocked up on Hi Chews and boarded the mean long bus back to DC. Now I have a cold and I came home from work early. This week seriously needs to speed up because Christmas vacation is SO CLOSE. I'm back to slothing on the couch watching John and Kate + 8.

Merry Christmas, walrus playing saxaphone

There is a dead pigeon in Union Station that I have seen for two days now. It's tucked in a corner. I think it probably got too cold; the highs were in the 30's for the past few days. I feel really sad about it when I see it because I know that the pigeon will end up in the trash and will never be buried in the dirt (unless I do it). At least it won't go to a landfill- all of DC's trash goes to a waste-to-energy incineration plant.

I came home from work early today because I started feeling crummy. I feel even more crummy after trying to sleep it off- I don't know what the deal is. It was great coming home during daylight, though.

My roommate E and I are going to New York City this weekend. I'm super excited, I'm going to stay with my friend C and take on the City. I'm the most excited to see NYC at Christmastime, I've always wanted to be there at this time of year- it seems so romantic and magical. I want to see the big Christmas tree and I also want to become unafraid of the NYC subway. As it stands I fear it more than any other public transportation / most things in life.

Tonight I discovered a big leak in the ceiling of the bathroom. Maybe we'll get a break in rent or something. This past weekend my roommate E's mom came to visit so we finally tried to decorate. We've put it off for EVER. I took the time to really get my room in shape and now I'm really liking it. It looks like Urban Outfitters and Ikea had a fight in here. I'm pleased. I got a really nice wool carved oriental rug at a church yard sale a while back and it looks nice in here. It reminds me of home a lot, even unconsciously because as soon as I put it down I starting throwing my clothes on it. We hung some pictures up in the living room but it's starting to look a little too grown up I think, I like more tacky and hilarious stuff. We did get a silver tinsil fiber optic Christmas tree at Target, so that helps.

I've adopted the huge Christmas tree in Union Station kind of as my Christmas tree for now. It's really big and it's decorated with US and Sweedish (?) flags. They also have a player piano next to it and every time I walk by it it's playing Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies. I don't know if that's because I walk by it at the exact same time every day or if it's because the piano only plays 2 or 3 songs. One day maybe I'll wait around and investigate it.

I wish I could tell work stories on here, because that would make this blog 8000x more interesting, but I don't want to jepordize my job. Maybe if there is enough interest I can create a password protected thing. Send me a message or comment if you'd be interested.

I'll leave you with this, because it is basically the funniest thing ever:

All my friends, I've returned to sister winter

I've been overwhelmingly homesick since Thanksgiving. Partly because coming back to my job was not exactly thrilling and partly because my roommate's boyfriend dumped her on Sunday. It was really strange and out of the blue. It makes me want to just go where my boyfriend is and make sure that that won't happen to me. It is so sad!

Last night we went out to Tombs, the college bar that serves all the Georgetown students. Sometimes I forget how important and famous DC crap is- Tombs was Bill Clinton's favorite restaurant when he went to Georgetown, the bar in the movie St. Elmo's Fire was based on, etc etc. I am a fan. Apparently, you get your name on a plaque behind the bar if you go to Tombs every night for the 99 nights before graduating from Georgetown. You can miss two nights. If you miss a night, you can make up for it by staying from open to close, 10AM to like.. 2AM the next day. Sounds pretty fun. Anyway, hanging out last night with my roommate E and her brother (who went to Georgetown) and all his old friends was a lot like how things are set up in St. Elmo's Fire- they knew all the bartenders because they went to school with most of them, they knew people eating and drinking there- it was really fun. I also was introduced to Busch Light (to the shock of everyone at the table). I can't help it if I was raised on PBR. Also, there IS NO PBR IN THIS TOWN.

For all the young professionals living far away from where you celebrate holidays and anyone else who may travel- I present to you airfarewatchdog. Sign up for the email alerts and be prepared to hate every plane ticket you've ever bought previously. I know I do.

The theme music to The Office is basically the most wonderful music to exist since The Nutcracker.

More on music: I am currently listening to Sufjan Stevens' Christmas album on repeat. I must get as much listening in in the time I have during the Christmas season. I swear to God, Sufjan will make you feel ecstatically happy and feeling like you're going to cry big whale tears at the same time. His Christmas album is a mix of old favorites, traditional stuff (good stuff) and his own cute Christmas songs. Sufjan is the man. I will post some lyrics to prove that Sufjan is the man:

From It's Christmas! Lets be Glad!:

Since the year is almost out
Left your hands and give a shout
There's a lot to shout about today

Since it's Christmas, let's be glad
Even if the year's been bad
There are presents to be had
A promotion for your dad
Don't be angry don't be mad

I also listen to The Nutcracker, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and any Christmas song sung by the Jackson 5.

PS- the squirrels here are so tame!! and fat.