December 2011
14 posts
My new office looks over Occupy DC. This is really great for me because I thought I was going to miss looking out the window at crazy people every day after I moved away from Cowboy. And as it turns out, I don’t have to feel homesick for that even a little bit.
At this very moment, there is a guy who is standing in the middle of the sidewalk yelling “FREEDOM!” Mel Gibson...
The day I entered DC, my iPhone entered the Dark Ages. It stopped showing missed calls. It stopped making calls. It stopped ringing. It basically worked only slightly better than me stringing together two cans. I’ve had so many appointments at the Genius Bar in the last few weeks, my calendar looks like I think it’s an actual bar. And I have a drinking problem.
Anyway, tonight...
Two holiday parties, one Christmas morning, seventeen hours of driving, one hundred tennis ball throws for Pawley, seven bajillion calories consumed, one Christmas Eve service, and much gift-giving and receiving later I’m back in DC. It was a whirlwind and wonderful weekend. And, considering I’ve made this move as complicated as possible, it was a good chance for me to get accustomed...
Trying to find a place to live in this city has been entertaining. And by entertaining, I mean alternately devastating and thrilling.
On Saturday I went to see a house that reeked of cat pee, tried to pass off a hallway as a second bedroom, and had a bathroom that was too small to actually open the door all the way—oh, and it had already been rented by the time I got there because people here...
Life, currently
So I’ve been pretty vague on here about life stuff of late. That’s partially on purpose and partially because one of the great ironies of blogging about your life is that when really interesting things are happening, it’s unlikely you have time to blog.
To play catch up: I quit my job in Charlotte, rented my house to two friends, and moved all of my belongings into my...
