― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
oh, nevermind, it'd probably be pretty much the same only flatter
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I think it would be better to live in the city proper. It is just kind of like...ok the best I can do to describe NOVA is like living in suburban Long Island or Jersey, except without ANY of the local flavor or tiny establishments because EVERYONE is a transient out of town 9-5 5 days a week. Whatever local color scene might've been here before the invasion of the Stepford Corporates, it's totally been demolished and replaced with a total void which is really disturbing in a lot of ways.
But hey whatever dood we booked yr suggestion wedding spot! Thx for tha tip!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
For serious!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
i think you've booked JimmyMod, but in case not, this is the dude that's doing our photos for crazy cash: http://www.carlbower.com/
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I have to look into them this week. Can't you just do all that online these days anyway? That's what I'm hoping at least.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I have a sad idea that will never come to fruition of going to a Chinese take out, getting 80 or 100 of their little rice boxes, and printing up "fortunes" that invite people to our wedding! But you cannot really put such a thing in the mail.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Take-out invitations is an awesome idea - I've seen a similar thing (with metallic colored mini-take out boxes) in wedding stores. But that's super, super clever.
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I just get the feeling that although both are smug and competitive, in NY I often feel that I'm struggling with other people, whereas in DC I feel like I'm struggling against everyone.
Yeah. I feel that way. I have a few very good friends in the area, but the few good friends are also friends with friends of friends, and the friends of friends tend to be fairly smug and competitive, which rubs off on the good friends, and suddenly I am lying to everyone about how I have all these ambitious plans when, in fact, I just want to be able to pay the bills and not stress. I think what bugs me the most is this vibe one can get from people, that if you're not so into the rat race and working 60 hours a week to chase the next big career goal, or maybe if whatever you've been chasing after doesn't fit their nice practical paradigm, there is something slightly pitiable about that. If only you could be as good as they are. And applying to law school.
Oh, and now I want a cider donut!
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
IT professionals seeking work have the best chance of finding jobs on the West Coast, according to Robert Half Technology, an employment services company.
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
==============================Open House==============================U.S. CitizensAccept the Challenge to Help Protect our Nation!CAREERS OPEN HOUSEChenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC)Date: Friday, October 21, 2005Time: 10:00am-5:00pmPlace: Holiday Inn ExpressAddress: 6401 Brandon Avenue, Springfield, VA 22150>>> ALL Clearable U.S. Citizens welcome>>> NO Prior Security Clearance Required.>>> Qualified candidates for hire must pass a U.S. Department of Treasury background investigation.Chenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC) is an Alaska Native Corporation providing support services to the federal government in information systems development, integration and operations; support to military operations; technical research and analysis; equipment operation and maintenance; training, and facilities support services.CTSC is looking for qualified and committed individuals to enhance its current staff and join our unified government contractor team supporting the priority mission of protecting our nations borders.Your expertise in Training, Logistics, Maintenance, Information Technology, and Homeland Security will be an asset on our team in support of this mission.If you enjoy working in a fast paced environment where the work you perform factors into national security, we want to talk to you.=========================Seeking professionalswith backgrounds as:=========================Contracts SpecialistField Service TechnicianLogistics AnalystsLogistics EngineerLogistics TechnicianMaintenance & Logistics ManagerMechanical EngineerQuality Assurance AnalystJunior AnalystSupport Services ManagerTechnical RecruiterTraining InstructorsTraining Operations AssistantTraining CoordinatorAdministrative AssistantReceptionistElectronic Equipment SpecialistMaintenance Dispatch CoordinatorJr. Instructional DesignerTechnical WriterFacilities Manager
U.S. Citizens
Accept the Challenge to Help Protect our Nation!
CAREERS OPEN HOUSEChenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC)
Date: Friday, October 21, 2005Time: 10:00am-5:00pmPlace: Holiday Inn ExpressAddress: 6401 Brandon Avenue, Springfield, VA 22150
>>> ALL Clearable U.S. Citizens welcome>>> NO Prior Security Clearance Required.>>> Qualified candidates for hire must pass a U.S. Department of Treasury background investigation.
Chenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC) is an Alaska Native Corporation providing support services to the federal government in information systems development, integration and operations; support to military operations; technical research and analysis; equipment operation and maintenance; training, and facilities support services.
CTSC is looking for qualified and committed individuals to enhance its current staff and join our unified government contractor team supporting the priority mission of protecting our nations borders.
Your expertise in Training, Logistics, Maintenance, Information Technology, and Homeland Security will be an asset on our team in support of this mission.
If you enjoy working in a fast paced environment where the work you perform factors into national security, we want to talk to you.
=========================Seeking professionalswith backgrounds as:=========================
Contracts SpecialistField Service TechnicianLogistics AnalystsLogistics EngineerLogistics TechnicianMaintenance & Logistics ManagerMechanical EngineerQuality Assurance AnalystJunior AnalystSupport Services ManagerTechnical RecruiterTraining InstructorsTraining Operations AssistantTraining CoordinatorAdministrative AssistantReceptionistElectronic Equipment SpecialistMaintenance Dispatch CoordinatorJr. Instructional DesignerTechnical WriterFacilities Manager
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey, Patrick Fitzgerald is in my building and there are cameras outside. They got a great shot of my lunchbox.
― allyson coco (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
And OK, there are plenty of "better than you" types here, whether they're corp. ladder-climbers or scenester scum, but are they really that hard to keep out of your life? I mean, there are just as many if not more (more, in my experience) nice, funny, cool people who aren't gonna pull that bullshit on you hanging around.
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
What's wrong with you?
Thousands of Fairfaxians, Arlingtonese and Montgomery Countish go to work every weekday from 0730 to 1630 to ENSURE YOUR SECURITY.
You non-profit NGO hangers-on should all be ashamed that you aren't helping this great nation defend itself against the evildoers. Look at my striped shirt, fucking look at it, etcetera.
By the way, just to clear the air, the MITRE corporation is a fucking pox on humankind and 90% of their employees can go fuck themselves right in the eye with an awl pike. "FFRDC non-profit" my mom's balls.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
This is like the truest shit ever written, btw.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, MITRE has been instrumental in fucking up this project at nearly every turn since I arrived. So it's just a little personal.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, if you mean established social set as like, one other person, then yeah that's sorta the case but if you mean like several friends, or even two? Then no, I don't believe that's true.
I mean, Tom and I kind of have an established social set, albeit a not-huge one. And like, no one ever wants to do anything. Because like half the time it kind of sucks going to places here and it'd be better to just hang out at home, or in Baltimore. So like I guess basically what carly said, yeah there are probably cool people here, I mean there definitely is but you're going to have problems by and large finding them because of the complete non-existance of the local scene and local custom and social infastructure.
I mean, you could probably go to J Paul's any night of the week and meet 80 trillion people but most of 'em suck.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually have more friends from college and high school living and working in DC than anywhere else. What I find, however, is that the ones living in the outlying suburbs are more willing to hang out with me, but lack any sort of circle within in the city.
On the contrary, I have other friends from college that live in Columbia Heights and China Town, know a lot cool people in the city, but are ridiculously hard to meet up with and sometimes weirdly reluctant introduce me into their world. Normally, I would assume that these people don't actually like me, but I think it's more just a general disconnect between suburban DC-ers' and those in the city.
So, despite all pessimism about DC, I think living in the actual city is the only logical way people of our type (non-twatish) can find a good circle to run with. It makes me want to leave College Park with the quickness.
― Scott H, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Pharmacy BarWonderlandAsylumThe ReefMarx CaféThe Black CatCafé Saint-Ex (on weekdays)Bar PilarGeorgetown BilliardsBedrock BilliardsThe Saloon (U St)Polly'sW DomkuTownhouse TavernThe RavenGalaxy HutThe BrickskellerAromaThe bar at FireflyThe Big Hunt
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
maybe petesmith can explain to you why college park is a wonderful place. i'd do it for him, but i don't really agree.
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
my out of town friends who visited me still talk about the falafel place of dc.
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― allyson coco (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Here, though, since they drive the market, they drive out most of the unorthodox niche joints--bookstores, strange bars, weird art things, whatever--that make a city interesting, and people who like to see something surprising every once in a while are kind of fucked.
It's funny, though, how interesting/okay people tend to cling together once they find each other, and have to look to each other for entertainment. It's like being in an expat community, but without the expensive long distance and dodgy water supply.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Also it's just kind of ugly inside now!
I actually think I might kind of prefer Pharmacy now. Although I'm still pretty sure that my favorite spot on that strip isn't any of those places but Blue Fin instead.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
And to get with Brian's positive vibe: Amsterdam Falafel is excellent, and the all-you-can-stack toppings bar is the starving drunk's friend.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Re: social scene, I feel like it seemed easier just out of college, because everybody I knew was in the same boat, kinda poor and living in grungy apartments and run down group houses where they'd throw parties a lot and we'd go for $2 drinks at the Common Share. And now it's a few years out and people are movin' on up and working more hours and buying places and going to fancy lounges to hang out, except I went back to school and am poorer than I was before.
Re: security, I was so tempted to apply when I saw this job posting, Web Designer and Developer (Baghdad, Iraq)
"Yeah Mom, I landed this awesome gig building websites, uh, it's great experience, but.. it's kind of out of town.."
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't been there since maybe August? Whenever geeta was in town...but that was a weeknight and the crowd isn't quite the same as it used to be, a lot more...uh...Adams Morgany. I mean I dunno, in my very lengthy experience with dive bars and the like, the really grungy ass ones have 10x better crowds than tricked out "THIS IS A DIVE BAR!" designed ones. I mean the Asylum ripped out its innards and had it redone by the dude who did Reef (xpost what Stephen just said). I think they just attract different clientele. This might be due to the yuppification of Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights just as much as it is due to the change of atmosphere. I hold out hopes for Galaxy Hut and really didn't awful mind going there even though I'm not a beer person because it's so munky looking inside!
Granted, buffalo wings are fucking awesome.
Also I just saw a taxi with spinner rims. Point, DC.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
another favorite dc thing: Ask Tom chatshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400577.html
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link