California trip, by the numbers
Cost of JetBlue flight from Sacramento to Long Beach: $118
Cost of JetBlue flight from Long Beach to DC: $109 (My brilliant strategy of waiting till the last minute paid off!)
Cost of the ONE parking ticket I got: $55 (I hate you, hollywood parking police)
Hipsters seen: 37
Points Lakers beat the Warriors by at the game I went to: 18 (Thanks again Louie and Isabelle!)
Days in California: 13
Cities visited: 9
Nights with less than 5 hours sleep: 5
Times I ate at In n Out: 4
Couches slept on: 3
Concerts seen: 1 (But it was Jesse Michaels, Kevin Seconds, Mike Park, and Dan Potthast - how about that!)
Floors slept on: 1!
Now enjoy some street magic and have a happy new year!
On the move
I am in California right now, sitting in San Leandro hanging out. I’ll be in CA for the rest of the month visiting family and friends (there’s no place like home), so expect sporatic posts. Tough. Comment if you want to entertain yourselves in the meantime…
Coming up on You’re Not Worthy: A new episode of our favorite show, DC Confuses Me
McDonalds: Real or Imaginary?
Ok, I realize this is somewhat off topic (wait, there’s a topic here?) but this was just too hilarious to pass up. So I’m reading an article in BusinessWeek about a new look for McDonald’s (link) (I know, what is the point, it has no meaning, etc. etc.. Look, when you give up watching Next Top Model and Lost we can talk) and I come across one of the funniest lines ever, and the best part is I don’t know if the writer was trying to be funny or serious.
The article starts off the usual explanatory way with a quick “what is this all about” paragraph:
In early November the king of cheap eats began rolling out new packaging across its 13,900 U.S. restaurants that aims to make the containers for its sandwiches, french fries, and soft drinks more relevant to today’s consumers, and not look like a throwback to the 1990s.
And then, AND THEN, this gem pops up:
Full-color photographs of ingredients are intended to remind customers that, for instance, a Quarter Pounder is, indeed, made of real food.
I almost spit out my organically grown fair trade non gmo avocado after reading that.
If you don’t find that funny, there’s always this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
** UPDATE: Apparently they disabled embedding of this video so you’ll actually have to go to youtube.com to watch it. It’s highly inappropriate but funny. NSFW. Just go watch it already.
So very c-ld
Cold. So very cold. Why do I always end up in the one place where it couldn’t possibly be any colder. Out of all the tro stations on the red line, I’m on the above ground new york station. Great. Even worse is that every time everyone waiting for a train headed towards shady grove sees lights coming, they get their hopes up, only to have them mercilessly dashed when it turns out to be a damn Amtrak. The wind. The wind is what really does you in. A little cold here or there, nothing three layers can’t stop. But the wind. The wind blows in and brings bitter cold. Maybe this is what it feels like in Antarctica. The penguins have it right, stand together for warmth. I just don’t think everyone else here would be keen enough to make that happen. But it’s either that or wait for the big M to install heaters across all outdoor stations. That should happen sometime in 2046, right after the silver line is done. A lady shows me the new one dollar coins. Says she used to work at the mint and keep track of the new releases but doesn’t know when this came out. Neither did I, but money is just money to me. You can turn anything into a collectable. Will people a thousand years down the line be examining our coins under a microscope, trying to understand what makes us tick? Perhaps. But as the horribly overused cliché goes, only time will tell. While writing this in word the grammar checking function is going crazy. A split infinitive here, some passive voice there, and you have one angry computer. I’m surprised mine is still with me. Too bad, macbook pro. I’m the one in charge (for now). Back to the apartment. Wait, it’s still cold. I’m inside though, what happened. Oh, right, it’s cold everywhere. Brilliant. Number of total words in this short piece of gloriousness: 353. Number of times the word cold is used: 8. But I bet you get up to put on a sweater once you stop reading.
It’s a celebration!!
As reported by just about everyone (link to everyone), it’s true, 75 years ago today, the 21st amendment to the US constitution was passed, legally repealing the prohibition of alcohol (wikipedia link for more info). What a day. And so tonight we go out and celebrate the availability of cheap (and not so cheap) alcohol for all to enjoy.
On a side note, is it just me or do people in DC drink way more than anything else, and way more than people elsewhere in the US?? In California plenty of people drink, sure, but they also indulge in the herbal essences along with some other vices, but here in DC, no only does everybody drink, but everybody drinks HEAVILY. Oh well, maybe it’s the cold.
Have a great night!
“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count”
My time so far in DC has been wonderful. I’ve met amazing new people, gone strange new places, and learned new things. It all seems to happen so fast though. No, really. You always hear everyone say that “time flies when you’re having fun”, or that it seemed like just yesterday the new year started, or something along those lines. And it’s true, our subjective view of time seems so slow from day to day, but over a few months, all of a sudden it’s almost the end of 2008 and nobody knows how we got here.
I’m not going to give you some generic “cherish every moment” advice, because I hope you do already. Life is too short to worry about appeasing everyone and getting everything you want to done. Just life it the way you want and be sure that you’re happy with yourself. As far as remembering though, it’s important for me to keep some sort of a record about what I do each day, and I recommend you do the same. Even if you don’t have time for a full on journal, just keep a little text file on your computer that you update each night with a couple sentences about what happened that day and your thoughts about it. You’ll find that your memory increases like crazy, and even if you happen to forget something, you’ll be able to go back and look at that day/night’s entry and be reminded of exactly what happened.
Enjoy the calvin and hobbes cartoon, and bonus points if someone can tell me who said the quote in the title. Now excuse me while I shake my leg around until the crawling ants go away.
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