got er did

Wednesday: cheesefries and pbr for pennies at Dot's
whisky and beer back(!) at new Montage bar
Thursday: avacado swiss omlette and gay waiter at cricket cafe
summer dresses at buffalo exchange
coffee at Stumptown Division
Juno and pizzacato pizza and pbr at Laurelhurst
Friday: vegan brunch at Paradox
more summer dresses and gold sandals at thrift store at 50th and Division
chilli relleno burrito and horchata at La Serenita
local brews at Amnesia on N Mississippi
Saturday: more brunch and hypercolor shades at Pattie's in St Johns
pbr and bocce ball at Leisure in St Johns
5 kinds of latenight fried grease (macncheese bits!) at Holman's
Sunday: still more brunch and bloody mary's in the sun at Mississippi Station
spicy garlic pad thai at than thao
more pbr at Beulahland
Teeth and more pbr at Laurelhurst
Monday: cupping at Stumptown Belmont
Everyday and all of the night: the Hills online and poppin bottles fulla bub up in burrp bleep huuurp wuuurp

all the while driving an SUV around the greenest city in the US for 5 days, which did wonders for my indie cred. and its not like i took pictures of anything, but whatevs, trust me.

to do the crap out of in pdx:

burritos - la Serenita, la Bonita, Super muhfukkin burrito Xpress, taco del mar (if time)
Buffalo Exchange, Red Light, the BINS
Laurelhurst - movie/pizza/pitchers of Hef
Karaoke - CHOPSTIX, grandma's
brunch - Laurelthirst, Cricket cafe, that one bomb place on Morrison? Hawthorne? toward downtown?
coffee - Stumptown, fresh pot
beer - Delta, Lutz, Yukon for shuffleboard
froofy drinks - Squeeze (fresh, hippy-flavored martinis), Salvador molly's (caipirinhas, rasta rings, and peanut shells on the ground)
Voodoo donut
Powells
Hoda's
Doug Fir crafts on sunday

Fuck yeah!!

this calls for a montage! a GRE-training montage!



You want a piece of me?!



Yeah I’m talking to you! Punk!



I’m going for it!

another bullshit week in shit town

yesterday i went to a briefing on the Hill put on by planned parenthood. Kate Walsh, from Grey's Anatomy who is on their Board of Advocates i guess, spoke about the need for comprehensive sex education in schools. Blythe Danner was there too for some reason. and there was free lunch.

the day before that i saw Blitzen Trapper at the Cat backstage. they're these burly guys from Portland who play jangly, country-twinged songs with lots of harmonica-guitar double action. a cross between credence and the shins, maybe. i think i probably shared a drum circle with each of them at some point.

today is friday, and i'm in the office in baltimore. it takes me an hour and a half door-to-door in the morning. the train ride from union station takes you through central maryland and its sludgy backwoods squalor and post-industrial decay, depressing as to rival new jersey's. i drink coffee and pretend i'm not here.

tuesday i re-take the GRE, followed by lots of carbombs. then i go to portland, so fuck you.

i need someone who knows about bikes

to find me a bike, pay for it, and teach me how to ride it while not looking like a asshole or dying.
kthnxbye.

we be making me beautiful duets

2 years, 6 months and 12 days is to be how long i've lived in DC without singing karaoke.
i'll be at Solly's the 2nd Wed of every month for the duration of my stay.
it is unfortunate they make you wear a kostume though.

panic at the disco