That's how DC rolls
Posted on July 14, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, society | Tags: baseball, baseball management, bootstraps, digs on nationals management, good, homeless, money in baseball, nationals, street sense, washington |
Please don’t tell me if Street Sense, the Washington D.C. based paper for and by the city’s homeless, has a downside, a seedy uncurrent, a mismanaged office. I don’t want to know. Because I love it.
I love the home-grown nature of it, the pull-yourself up by your bootstraps nature of it, and, frankly, the fine [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, family, single, work | Tags: balance, club, dc, employer, fairness, family friendly, federal, life, mommy, mommy track, parenting, unfair, washington, work, work-life balance |
The Mommy-track post, or as Maggie Dammit would say, the post in which I lose several readers (in a fiery rage? she didn’t say that part). Anywho, back to my point, which was… am I evil for resenting a “New Parent Community of Practice” recently (heh) spawned at work? Don’t answer yet. Let me [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, overheard, poetry | Tags: cell phone, dc, dupont, found form, overheard, people, say, sound, talk, walk, walking, washington |
Photo: “Dc Art Walk 10″ by “bullneck” on flickr
7:20 a.m.
Clickity clickity. fwip. fwip.
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Posted on July 4, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, colors, health, love, meditation, mental health, writing, x365 | Tags: calm, calves, clear, climbing, colors, exercise, meditation, peace, stairs, walking, zen |
I tried meditation. A bunch of times. It helped, if for nothing else that for sitting sans computer in the quiet and kindness. But I couldn’t relax, couldn’t focus on meditating, focused on the noise I was making, the meditation I wasn’t doing, racing, racing thoughts.
I went for a one-on-one with the leader of the [...]
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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 22, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, home, love, writing | Tags: blue, brewing, building, curtains, home, light, love, night, open, raining, storm, stormy, wet, wind, yellow |
Against the aqua of my curtains comes yellow so bright, I think it must be car lights. It is 8:20 p.m.
I open the curtain to see that no, it is the summer sky before a storm.
Yellow beams hit my curtains, pebbled sandy driveway, clean white stone of the walls of my building. The rain is [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, society, writing | Tags: death, father, good guy, sad, tim russert, why |
Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack
Really? Really, universe? Did this have to be?
Did it have to be Father’s Day weekend, Friday the 13th, out of nowhere, without warning.
How many truly great men do we have to lose? How can we have an election without him?
Adieu, Tim Russert, great journalist, great man, kind person, Washintonian at [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, politics, society | Tags: barak, Chelsea Clinton, democrat, facebook, friending, friends, goodbye, hello, Hilary, Hillary Clinton, hillary speech, Obama, politics, president, primary, speech, u.s. politics |
I have a lot more to say about “friends” as I enter the brave new social media world, where “friends” on various networks mean wildly different things to different people, where importing your contacts into any new communication service can lead to wildly embarrassing events (Uhh, who are you? Uhh, didn’t we go out once [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, humor, society, washington, washington, dc | Tags: baseball, dc, flickr, funny, making baseball fun, mascot, mascots, nationals, president's race, Scott Ableman, teddy, teddy roosevelt, when good mascots go bad |
Panther Attack!, originally uploaded by Scott Ableman.
Ha ha ha. This is one of the funniest photos I’ve ever seen (is it just me? I actually LOL’ed and this would make baseball much more entertaining!) It was taken by my newest Flickr contact Scott Ableman . Thanks, Scott, for the lols!
Will Teddy never win?
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