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whoa!! Awesome. I should go stop by my coffee shop before I leave for Christmas and say hello to the guy that works there (speaking of Koreans, I guess).

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll post my schedule update once I have my evening commitment straightened out, and then we'll come up with some BIG PLANS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been off since Wednesday, and lemme tell ya folks, it's been a non-stop bacchanal of awesomeness. Sleeping in! Laundry! Christmas shopping! RAWK!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

people with time off can all go eat it.
I'm working Dec 31st until 10:30pm.
Whe I say "eat it" I really mean "die from poison gases."

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 December 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

would getting dehydrated and irritable at the columbia mall count? because if so, i'm waaaaaay ahead of you.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha yes. Why did you do that? Did you need a bomber hat from LL Bean?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 December 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i did it because i love pain and suffering and i needed a stupid wind-up flashlight

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
A STUPID, WIND-UP FLASHLIGHT!!! SILLY RICHARDSON. I CANNOT BE DAMAGED BY SUCH A RIDICULOUS TRINKET.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

...

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Northeast is fun! It's a magical place where men stop dead in their tracks to open doors for me, offer me gifts, and compliment me endlessly! I am going to move there, very soon.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

However, their Modell's is crap.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

surprise, NEDC sporting goods shop in stocking 100% redskins gear?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 December 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Try 100% Randy Moss.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm beginning to wonder just how feasible it will be to meet up with you guys while I'm hear. :( My friend won't get back to me with definite plans for tonight and tomorrow is xmas eve and then it's xmas and then I leave. I should have planned this out better. All hope is not lost yet but it's pretty close. Sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 23 December 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

HERE. I swear I'm not a total idiot.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 23 December 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf randy moss? nothing in this town makes any sense.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 December 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

OK. I will be at a bar at 11th and Kenyon tonight after 9:30, if anyone wants to stop by and try and find me. I don't know what it is called or anything. I will be wearing this sweater:
http://static.flickr.com/5/9217827_2b0ec885ed.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

You have to WANT to meet me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe you're speaking of Wonderland.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom's friend tried to get me to go carolling with her daugher.

I just back from DC and I think I need a bit more time to grow into this new pageboy haircut.

Also, I feel a bit sick so I think I will just wrap presents and make Christmas mixes and watch Veronica Mars and try to avoid carollers.

Have fun though, all, if you meet up. Nick, I'm sorry to miss you and your argyle sweater.

I went to Busboys & Poets today; it's actually kind of cool there. They have good children's books. And they gave me a free capaccino for no reason.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

(Note: I don't actually expect any of you to show up.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you mean Santana Moss?

Northeast is fun! It's a magical place where men stop dead in their tracks to open doors for me, offer me gifts, and compliment me endlessly! I am going to move there, very soon.

I live in Northeast. It's a whole other world out here, you drive across that bridge at H Street and realize nobody who lives in NW ever comes over. Most of the time people are very nice, even the drunk guy up the street, although I didn't stop to chat..

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

going East over that bridge for the first time really feels like an adventure

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

ALL OF YOU WHO DID NOT SHOW UP TO WONDERLAND TONITE = LAME.
also everybody else except for a couple of Nick's friends who showed up to wonderland tonite = lame. Not including obviously me, ally, n/a.
wtf that bar's location, milieu and clientele make absolutely no rational sense whatsoever. HEY! it's the bar in DC that has expensive beers that you have to DRIVE TO! wtf is the asylum THAT DIFFICULT?

Also no, not santana moss. randy moss.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a good name though. How is Bar Pilar? Lame?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 24 December 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay on weeknights, kind of a toolshed on weekends.

The Saint-Ex owner claims he opened Bar P so he'd have a bar he wanted to drink in. Simpler solution: Start openly antagonizing your most annoying Saint-Ex customers until they leave. Or hire me to antagonize them for you.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 24 December 2005 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks for coming, Tom and Ally, it was good to see you guys and not have to act like I remembered people I don't know. Ariel and I went to Metro 29 diner after, that place is bizarre.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought the bar was fine, if fucking loud, but obv. I don't have a grasp of the location issues and scene politics.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

MERRY X-MAS EVE EVERYONE I AM AT WORK BAAAAAAAH!

On the upside: I remembered to bring booze with me this time.

On the downside: this is my second attempt at coming in to work today. On my first attempt, I pulled up to my Rockville office only to realize that I left my access card hanging on the doorknob at home. No one (and I mean NO ONE) is stupid enough to be here besides me, so I had to drive back to dc to get my card to actually get into my fucking office FUCK ME!!!!

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

quincie, that is laaaaaaaaaaame and you owe it to yourself to get productively hammered. sorry i didn't show last night; pete and i were seeing friends in from colorado and then i had to go meet up with some beloved former coworkers at the brickskeller. i consumed several exotic russian beers that i really didn't need. but merry xmas to everybody.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Is anyone going to Midnight Mass? I feel strangely in the mood for some pomp and circumstance this year. National Gallery is sold out but Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is available. But my sister doesn't arrive tonight till around 6 so I'm not sure she'll be in the mood to worship the baby Jesus. Also, did you know that midnight mass is no longer at midnight? Both the above are at 10.30. Wash Post ran an article today explaining. There are some hold-outs though. I don't know, I think Midnight Mass is maybe the coolest thing about the Catholic Church? Do other denominations have midnight services?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

poor wee quincie. do not work tomorrow!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I DO IN FACT HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW MOOKIE I R SO FUCKED!

Mary, the Episcopalians do midnight mass. Three quarters of the congregation is drunk by then, of course.

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Q, that's so wrong! I think this calls for some serious workplace drinking. Then expense the cab fare home.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck the Skins.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

It's quarter of seven on christmas eve and I'm all alone in a Rockville office park, tipsy on flat champagne. Surely I should kill myself?

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, is the sixth floor high enough to guarentee success?

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck, the windows don't open.

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, I'm an editor who can't spell "guarantee"--what have I to live for?

― quincie, Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Quincie, don't do it! Harm others, not yourself!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

You have so much to live for! Like after-Christmas sales! And the new season of The Wire! And John Waters!

Without you, who will perfect the recipe for panda tacos?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey Q, at least you don't have to go to the Doktor tomorrow at noon for labwork and probably antibiotics. Ally had to direct me from the living room sofa while I made the traditional ZUPPA DI PESCE. We are out of commission and watching Bond films on Sp!ke TV, so far our most-watched channel since we finally got cable TV back. Or rather, satellite TV. whatever.

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 25 December 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link

o quincie, i am praying for you

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 25 December 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

so to speak

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 25 December 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you for your kind wishes--I managed to make it through the night. It is now x-mas proper and although I am BACK AT WORK (fuckfuckfuck) I am sporting this great shirt from Mr. Q:

http://www.cafepress.com/bstick.40197532

So my mood is much better. I'll be fetching my parents from BWI later this afternoon, and then the fun will really begin.

Tombot, I hope you and Ally are holding up OK. Remember: alcohol kills pathogens! Drink up!

― quincie, Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Hang tough, Q! Hope you have a suitable bacchanal tonight.

It could be worse: Someone gave my mom an Elvis box set, so we're working our way through the gospel section as I write this. There's not enough eggnog in the world to get me through this with sanity intact.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Dudes I hit a deer (well, some dumbass in the fast lane hit a deer and knocked it straight into my windshield) on I-70 driving to my hometown last night. My car is currently sitting on the shoulder of the highway with a big old hole in the windshield and one of the side mirrors gone and glass absolutely everywhere and I think the drivers side window is cracked too, so it's all got to be replaced. What a pain. But, I feel pretty lucky that I slowed down a bit before it hit me or some truly bad shit could've happened. I only had to pick a few glass shards out of my hands. While waiting for the police & my dad to arrive I got to hang out for like half an hour watching car after car after car run over, uh, what was left of the deer. :)

Uh, what is up with churches in the DC area NOT having midnight mass? That's the biggest service of the year at the (Catholic) church I went to growing up.

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

OK so allyzay got really sick, quincie had to work, and dar1a g is hit by a secondhand ungulate and bashes her car to pieces. Obviously ladies should not stay in the DC area over the holidays!

BTW the lab, the doctor and the pharmacist each took less time than the fucking cab dispatch. Barwood taxi service of Kensington, MD, you are on fucking notice. I would have been fine with this DC Xmas weather totally blowing ass if I hadn't had to spend so much time out in it!

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy shit, Darla! Glad you're okay, and that you weren't tempted by the deer pudding.

Barwood is a pretty creepy operation whose Montgomery County monopoly status lets them blow off any standards of timely service--Now Even Slower Than the Metro Disability Shuttle!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

AHA.

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link

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