oops my bad it's 97 now
97!
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
feels like: 101!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Those no-AC metro cars are like being buried alive
― I DIED, Tuesday, May 31, 2011 7:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
and they smell awful cause everyone is just sitting in them sweating
how the fuck do people wear suits in this shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
They live in the burbs and drive door to door? I have yet to figure it out. at least I can start wearing skirts. though being this pale is NAGL
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i am pale and i wear skirts and i just don't care!!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
was all excited that newjob is super close to home, thinking of biking but... even though it's short, there's no way i could swing it and look professional in the summer heat. maybe in fall!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
btw idk if any of you regular metro riders follow @metroopensdoors on twitter, but they've put what looks like a pair of new people on the feed and it's gone from uselessly behind exemplar of everything broken abt metro to, like, a really useful rider tool & customer experience responder almost instantaneously. its like night and day--somebody just tweeted at them that there was no a/c in their car, within minutes @metro asked for the car #s to get a tech on it--whether they did or didn't, who knows, but in terms of PR i'm flabbergasted at how well they're coming off all of a sudden.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Consider what it's like waiting for a bus in these temperatures....
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Feels like 204 amirite? Sheesh
Just played softball in this shit
― Z S, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i walked a couple miles after work on the way home, by then it was only 90..
so i got some exercise, now thinking about going to the shake shack
― daria-g, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
we got take out because i refused to cook for fear apt would reach 100 degrees
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
have decided i'm gonna start keeping my office wardrobe in my cube closet and just start rollin in in my gym clothes
maybe this will encourage me to use the gym & shower across the street from the office in the AMs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I just got back from Las Vegas.
It was a lot cooler there.
― quincie, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
On Friday I go to Atlanta.
Probably cooler there, too.
It was indeed cooler in my sc hometown (a few hours north of atl) yesterday than it was here!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
hey it's 96 degrees again! AWESOME
skipped the Shake Shack yesterday because I'm trying not to have too much sugar but today .. must go
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
98. hottest June 1 in over 100 years
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
sweet lord
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
arrived at shake shack just before hail storm broke out. seriously. so weird
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
dear dcites, might you fancy a pint after work on friday?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yesss please
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yes but I will be in Atlanta :(
― quincie, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i'd totally be down on friday!
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey since I'm just back to posting this week after being on vacation last week, just want to say thanks to HOOS, Tombot, sarahel, tehresa and Z_S for the beers and talk in Ballston while I was there! Great meeting all of you, and I had a really fun pre-Jeopardy time.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Only '80s temperature wise today on Thursday!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 June 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
how did the audition go??xpost
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it went well, but there were some pretty interesting and charismatic ppl in my group of auditioners. One dude had flown over from Yorkshire, UK to audition and another was a Marine Corps pathologist and war veteran. COntestant coordinator twice said she liked what I was wearing, though, so I guess a thanks to Perry Ellis is due if I make it on the show.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
^_^
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
haha rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
btw my cal is free tomorrow!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
well depending on what time i wake up/how insane the traffic is, i hope to be around by maybe 6pm?
my only serious demand of any location is that it be air conditioned (though cheap is good too)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I could do with a few pints right now.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Cold out there.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah i opened my front door and just went "yeaaaaaaaaaaaah"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
it's AWESOME
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Dancers versus the Park Police Round II at the Jefferson Memorial Saturday at noon.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/performance-and-dance/2011/06/03/dance-revolution-etc-part-ii/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I am down for this fap today. Do these things get coordinated via email?
― Eris and Paris Making Dolmas (los blue jeans), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
mookie emailed me last night and said he probably can't make it due to car issues :(
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post - I can't make it, but I thought others were interested. Los Blue Jeans, maybe you should just suggest a spot and ask here if others are up for it?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd be interested for sure. tons of beer places have mad cool guest drafts due to SAVOR going on
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Washington Post on 2 Capitol Hill area happy hours:
Overheard at the conservative happy hour First Friday at Union Pub: “I’ll be over at the Faith and Freedom conference tomorrow. . . . They beat Notre Dame this year. . . . When Snowmageddon happened two years ago, I had a reservation at Minibar. . . . The Weiner jokes are overwhelming me right now.”
Overheard at the progressive happy hour First Thursday at Lounge 201 the night before: “I’m also a PhD student. . . . I’m a lawyer by day but . . . We lost the message war! . . . Libertarianism doesn’t make sense. How can you abolish everything? . . . How drunk do I have to be to say, ‘Hey, Ron Paul intern’?”
First Friday formed in 2006 when a posse of Heritage Foundation co-workers ambled across Massachusetts Avenue NE to Union Pub. They desired a social setting with no strings attached (no guest speaker, no book reading, no dress code or registration or cover charge), so they formed their own.
“At other events you’d be having a good time, mingling, having a beer, and then all of a sudden it’d get quiet and Dick Armey would stand up and pontificate on the future of America — that sucks,” says one of the First Friday charter members, Brian Phillips, 33, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “But if Dick Armey wants to come hang out, that’s great.”
First Friday lassoed big GOP names (Boehner, Steele, Newt) for guest appearances — nothing formal, just: “Oh hey, there’s Grover Norquist” — and word of mouth buoyed attendance until it became a consistent safe house for conservatives adrift in a blindingly liberal city.
First Thursday began two weeks ago in reaction to First Friday’s popularity and to reinvigorate the idling movement that elected Barack Obama in 2008. The organizers of First Thursday have boasted that they can out-network the conservatives. Whatever that means. (How is networking prowess tabulated? By the frequency with which one uses the word “networking”?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/off-the-clock-and-its-still-party-time-on-capitol-hill-with-dueling-happy-hours/2011/06/03/AGkg4lJH_story.html
There's another link with photos also
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"networking" ugh. I really prefer to hang out with people I like and not ask them for anything related to career stuff, it's so much easier
― daria, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"blindingly liberal" lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Showing up at the conservative one could be amusing (or frightening)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i accidentally crashed one of those at duffy's during the ncaa tournament (coincidentally it was a duke game)
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 6 June 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
So the rally for DC Statehood on the West lawn of the Capitol Thursday evening features Chuck Brown performing after the speakers. I doubt any of the First Friday happy hour crowd will wander over, but maybe some First Thursday types will.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hello dc dudes! i hope you are all healthy and wealthy and watching a lot of tarkovsky. nbd but i'm playing a rad zine release party on saturday at velveeta lounge and it would, of course, be a real treat to see any/all of you fine folks there for hanging, drinking etc. there may (read: will) be free donuts. <3
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 17 June 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
cool!
where is that? anyone free tomorrow?
― tehresa, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 3:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
my friend ally put this together. it was pretty rad.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol wait