Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

xpost, the one shaped like a hat box? awesome.

my hand smells like coffee. gross.

Zack, remind me to tell you the Sam Sessa dropping drinks story sometime. Very Funny.

Mr. Quincie's employer, in an attempt to make everyone feel better about having to work on a federal holdiay, somehow made everyone feel worse by announcing that employees could wear jeans today.

YIPPEE jeans so much better than a holiday baaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301290.html

I lived right off 13th and U briefly for the summer of 2000 (my friends stayed a couple years after that). I thought it was getting awfully gentrified then! It's insane what has happened to the neighborhood since.. There used to be a cool flea market in a vacant lot where that whole Ellington condo building complex is now. I don't know what the Saint-Ex guy is griping about though. He sets up a fancy faux Parisian bistro.. no wonder rich people are gonna hang out there! duh!

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"condo units starting in the 800's"

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I know the developer for this building - it's a truly odd site and price range, but he says they're selling. I can't imagine their marketing - "Offering neither the quiet of the Pallisades nor the urban setting of Georgetown! Inaccessible to the Metro but with the traffic of Wisconsin Avenue!"

Marketing: "Hang out with your neighbor Henry Rollins in the plasma TV-appointed Community Lounge."

On an unrelated note, will someone please pronounce for me "Ceiba"?

I agree. He was whining that previously the neighborhood only had cheap Salvadorean food. The shame, the shame. The follow-up stuff on him in the 2nd article on Monday was equally annoying. Now he's buying a place on North Capitol close to where he had his Vespa stolen. In 5 or so years he'll be grumbling again.

I once made the mistake of talking about "getting into a big row with someone" and pronouncing it ROE. Oh, the shame. I now hesitate to pronounce words I'm not sure about.

I am now quite hungry for cheap Salvadorean food WHY NONE OF THIS IN CLEVELAND PARK?

Speaking of geeks, how is the Neuro conference going? Or is it over?

Casa Fiesta (owned by relatives of the people who own El Tamarindo), up Wisconsin Avenue toward Friendship Heights, is still cheap. Although its immediate neighborhood is the next candidate for 800K+ condos.

Saint-Ex guy riding around North Capitol St on his Vespa, why? You live in DC dude! GET ONE HOOPTY

I was house sitting for a World Bank staffer & just ran into old acquaintance last week whose wife is also World Bank staffer/lawyer. He is in LAW SCHOOL and I know him through a college friend who is also in the process of applying to LAW SCHOOL.

Someone I've been working on a website for has the following email address (due to his initials): wtf@FAMOUSLAWSCHOOL.edu

1) a hard-ass bunch of young Salvadoran guys with spiky sideburns and neck tattoos,
2) three cops boozing it up with their mistresses (it was a Friday),
3) four bears in sleeveless flannel shirts, just up from Logan Circle, and
4) one gorgeous drag queen with a pencil mustache.

By the way, I searched the account database for an otm@FAMOUSLAWSCHOOL.EDU or lol@FAMOUSLAWSCHOOL.EDU or pwn@FAMOUSLAWSCHOOL.EDU, but those aren't in there. Said institution started doing alpha-numeric combos for addresses a few years back.

WOO HOO we are officially moving to exactly one half block away from the Dupont metro :)

Re: DC being a small town...ok it was weird enough when it turned out a girl I work with who handles the HR stuff for my group is good friends with someone that Tom works with and is friends with. But yesterday, sitting in my office, a girl comes in with a pile of paperwork to give me and a coworker and we kind of stare at each other and realize...WE WERE BOTH BUYING WEDDING DRESSES IN THE SAME SHOP AT THE SAME TIME 2 WEEKS EARLIER. She works on the same floor as me! WTF???