Thursday, October 30, 2003
It is a beautiful day in DC! It's in the 60's and is supposed to be in the 70's all weekend -- finally, perfect for being outside (at the beginning of October). And by October, I mean November.
It won't quite be the crisp, cold Halloween that so many New Englanders are hoping for. I am okay with that. Particularly because my costume involves flip-flops at this point. I'm going to be a bunny rabbit. I'm not wearing a bunny suit, or going as a playboy bunny. It's somewhere in between. The party I was planning on going to was cancelled this morning, so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Various roommates have invitations to fun-sounding parties, and there's always Adams' Morgan.
Tonight after work I'm going to a company happy hour at the Capitol City Brewing Company by my office, where the service is always abominable. It's too bad, because it's the kind of place I really want to like -- they really do brew their own beer and have great happy hour specials. It's really close to work, and is in a renovated warehouse space, so has high ceilings and exposed piping. But the service and food are consistantly dissappointing. Oh well.
Peter and I went out to dinner last night at a place called The Quarry in Silver Spring. We had to go down a flight of stairs to a tiny little pub with dark wood interior -- very reminiscent of Grendel's Den in Cambridge. The food was pretty good, although somehow the potato chips tasted like bacon grease. They had good beers on tap, including Yuengling Black-and-Tan, which is a fun new favorite.
There is not yet any exciting news from California (and by exciting, I mean that all of the fires are out). I was reading about them this morning, and there are a few they don't think will be contained until November 16th. By my calculations, that's over two weeks away. Wow. The person I know there who's most directly affected is Jessica, who lives in Clairemont and whose brother lives in Ramona. She says that his house is still intact at this point, but he and family were evacuated yesterday. The fire has been as far west as the 805. That's crazy! There was a minor earthquake down there as well yesterday (it was big enough to be felt, but didn't cause any damage). I think this officially means we will never hear the end of California-is-really-hell/damned/about to fall in the ocean/ being cleansed of everything there now. And our governor is an Austrian body-builder. And on a totally separate note, when he was here in DC this week asking the gov't for money, which he was planning on doing before the fires started, but he'll probably get a lot more support for it now, he and his wife had lunch with Ted Kennedy.
My favorite quote about the Kennedy's was spoken by Katherine Petrecca, who I worked with at New Balance my first year in Boston. She's from that area and she summed up the Kennedy's as "Good politicians -- just bad people." What other Republican govenor of California could get a sit-down with Ted Kennedy? How much further is Arnold going to be able to go because he's married to Maria? I'm not convinced he should be stopped, but I don't exactly think he's qualified for a political position.
Anyway, more political uncertainty hits DC as a Senate building was evacuated today because they thought two people with guns got into the building. At first, they reported one man had entered the building. It turns out it was two female staffers with Halloween props for a costume gone horribly, horribly wrong. Okay, maybe just horribly.
One final note: I just read a review for the new Will Ferrell movie, Elf. It looks funny. By why do I find him so funny? Why? Why? Three words: "We're going streakin'!"
It won't quite be the crisp, cold Halloween that so many New Englanders are hoping for. I am okay with that. Particularly because my costume involves flip-flops at this point. I'm going to be a bunny rabbit. I'm not wearing a bunny suit, or going as a playboy bunny. It's somewhere in between. The party I was planning on going to was cancelled this morning, so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Various roommates have invitations to fun-sounding parties, and there's always Adams' Morgan.
Tonight after work I'm going to a company happy hour at the Capitol City Brewing Company by my office, where the service is always abominable. It's too bad, because it's the kind of place I really want to like -- they really do brew their own beer and have great happy hour specials. It's really close to work, and is in a renovated warehouse space, so has high ceilings and exposed piping. But the service and food are consistantly dissappointing. Oh well.
Peter and I went out to dinner last night at a place called The Quarry in Silver Spring. We had to go down a flight of stairs to a tiny little pub with dark wood interior -- very reminiscent of Grendel's Den in Cambridge. The food was pretty good, although somehow the potato chips tasted like bacon grease. They had good beers on tap, including Yuengling Black-and-Tan, which is a fun new favorite.
There is not yet any exciting news from California (and by exciting, I mean that all of the fires are out). I was reading about them this morning, and there are a few they don't think will be contained until November 16th. By my calculations, that's over two weeks away. Wow. The person I know there who's most directly affected is Jessica, who lives in Clairemont and whose brother lives in Ramona. She says that his house is still intact at this point, but he and family were evacuated yesterday. The fire has been as far west as the 805. That's crazy! There was a minor earthquake down there as well yesterday (it was big enough to be felt, but didn't cause any damage). I think this officially means we will never hear the end of California-is-really-hell/damned/about to fall in the ocean/ being cleansed of everything there now. And our governor is an Austrian body-builder. And on a totally separate note, when he was here in DC this week asking the gov't for money, which he was planning on doing before the fires started, but he'll probably get a lot more support for it now, he and his wife had lunch with Ted Kennedy.
My favorite quote about the Kennedy's was spoken by Katherine Petrecca, who I worked with at New Balance my first year in Boston. She's from that area and she summed up the Kennedy's as "Good politicians -- just bad people." What other Republican govenor of California could get a sit-down with Ted Kennedy? How much further is Arnold going to be able to go because he's married to Maria? I'm not convinced he should be stopped, but I don't exactly think he's qualified for a political position.
Anyway, more political uncertainty hits DC as a Senate building was evacuated today because they thought two people with guns got into the building. At first, they reported one man had entered the building. It turns out it was two female staffers with Halloween props for a costume gone horribly, horribly wrong. Okay, maybe just horribly.
One final note: I just read a review for the new Will Ferrell movie, Elf. It looks funny. By why do I find him so funny? Why? Why? Three words: "We're going streakin'!"
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