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Posted on July 1, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, humor, office, overheard, society, washington, washington, dc | Tags: arrogance, battle, boy, bush, challenge, cheney, court house, frat boys, funny, lawyers, McClellan, metro, new carrolton, officemates, oh YEAH, one-upmansship, orange line, outdo, overheard, politics, roomates, scoff, show off, social poser, summer internship, washington, work |
Yes, this is an actual conversation I heard on the Orange Line towards New Carrolton. Ah, Washington in the summer… bring on the interns and the summer associates. Some towns have sports talk. We have this (transcribed as closely as I could write on the back of an Express newspaper from my nearby seat)
Obvious summer [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, home, love, writing | Tags: dc, dupont, heart, hipster, home, love, suburbs, urban, virginia |
The real reason I’ve been thinking about home is that I might be leaving this one soon. This one, being downtown, “THE city” (sorry, nyc), my hipster dupont city girl pad, my newly-divorced-to-single woman pad.
And, to top it off, I might be moving to … Northern Virginia, land of my constant mockery lo these many [...]
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Posted on June 21, 2008. Filed under: 9092, arlington, baby, family, growing up, home, niece | Tags: ba, baby, baby talk, bama, climbing, crawling, family, giggle, hava, home, laugh, love, loving, ma, niece, night, pink blanket, sleep, summer night, tuck in |
I hold my niece against my chest, tight. She laughs – her eyes sparkling with her laugh. She shrieks with glee rolling over my leg, my arm, my fingers on my sister’s soft bed. “Hava” says E, my niece.
“Ba” I say.
“Ma ma mama ba, hava?”
“ka la” I answer.
She giggles, throwing her head back, pleased [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, contest, meme, society, writing | Tags: award, ben's, ben's chili bowl, best, blog, blogger, contest, dc, dc bests, dc favorites, dc worsts, erincarly, flickr, herb, herb of dc, herbofdc, hungry, jobless, photo, prize, recommendation, secret, snark, soup is not a finger food, spot, top 10, washwords, what liz said, winner, worst |
Okay, so now you’re learning some of my secrets.
1) I LOVE love LOVE starting projects! Finishing them… mmm… not so much. (Duh. I mean I’m writing this post during work hours time I surely could be putting to better use.)
2) I fear conflict and delivering bad news. How can I tell anyone they didn’t [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, contest, meme | Tags: awards, blog, blogger, cash, cheat, cheating, contest, dc, hate, love, loyal, meme, prizes, rules, secrets, snark, washington, web site |
**LAST CHANCE TO CLAIM YOUR ENTRY**
So, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is … almost here! The entries are piling in (email entrants if I emailed you back, you’re in! ) I wanted to give anyone who posted by the deadline, May 31, 11:59 p.m., one last shot to let me know. So let [...]
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