May 9, 2007

  • misc. stuff.

    today, i took a 3.5 hour lunch. marvelous. i came back to the office
    with a new pair of shoes in tow... but when i took a look at them more
    closely, i realized i had taken my sister's shopping bag and not mine.
    i'll have to wait to wear my shoes until we make a swap. boo. i was
    just thinking though- how great would it be if we wore the same shoe
    size? double the shoes? i'm salivating just thinking about that. all those shoes! oh my.


    miscellaneous stuff- lavar arrington was in our offices today. not sure
    for what, but i went to go take a look to see what the hullabaloo was
    about and he happened to be leaving when my coworker and i went to go
    gawk. he said hello and smiled at us. i just looked at him with a blank
    stare and then asked my coworker what is name was again and why we had
    gone out of our way to go peak at him. poor guy. he probably thought he
    was in zoo with people foolishly trying to steal a peak. i guess for
    DC-ists, him having been with the redskins makes him a big deal. for
    me, i have no clue.


    another thing, completely unrelated, late night phone convo's are the
    best. there's something about laying in bed and talking on the phone at
    1am. it hearkens back to the days of junior high and high school when
    you sometimes snuck in phone conversations when your parents were
    probably yelling at you to go to sleep and get off the phone. the funny
    thing is, i really don't like talking on the phone that much. it's
    something that i've had to get used to though- time differences, and
    the fact that i have some friends who refuse to communicate with me by
    text message...

    oh yes, and big ups to my sister who snagged me a kick-ass rate for a great hotel over memorial day weekend. she is the best sister ever. we should all be so fortunate as to have siblings like mine. among just some of the hotel's amenities are free wifi, complimentary use of an escalade if going within 3 miles, hosted wine reception every evening, and a sandy beach pool. very nice. although, it does strike me odd that i plan to be poolside for as much of the weekend as possible when i don't even swim.

    and then lastly, another thing to think about- how much do you/should you share about the
    past? i have pondered this before and the question is related to
    ex-files, family secrets and the like. i have girlfriends who say you
    should share nothing, tell nothing- what's in the past is in the past.
    but i feel like where i've been and what i've done in the past has
    brought me to the present and defines much of who i am. and in the
    spirit of full disclosure, i've almost always spilled my all of my
    beans and have been perhaps too forthright with people. there are
    things i've done that i'm not proud of; there are mistakes i've made
    that were monumental and egregious... but at the end of the day, i
    don't want to have to hide anything. and if they judge me, then that's
    not the kind of person i want in my presence, right? but is this to my
    own detriment? can people really see past that? i always struggle with
    this. i guess the good ones can and will see past the flaws.

    that's it. time for happy hour. i think there's a gin and tonic waiting for me with my name on it.