In case you haven’t heard I am spending my summer in Washington D.C. as an editorial intern writing for Campus Progress and sometimes Pushback.org. I arrived last Tuesday and so far really love my job/internship. Things are different though now. I live in a living room and sleep on a couch. I wear business casual clothing and work for 40 hours. In a way, I feel like I am living someone else’s life. I’ll get use to it though. Its just really different to go from slinging pizza pies and being a full time student to this new life.
So, I figured that at the end of every week I’ll give a +, -, and an = to various aspects of my life here in D.C. You can figure out what sign means what.
+ Internship and all the kids that work there
+ Hanging with Courtney and crew
+ open bar at Liberation Dance Party on Friday at DC9
+ diversity! D.C. is much more ethnically diverse than Portland. I say this with a certain sensitivity to the fact that there is a slight tension between the minority working class of this town and the well-off. However, there is a wide range of various types of people from all different classes and cultures. I understand that it is not all peachy and that gentrification is in full effect here but it’s a nice change from the bubble that Portland was stuck in at times.
+ Walking by Senator John Kerry’s office door and seeing him standing amongst his interns at the Russell Senate House.
+ 10 dollar Nationals game. They suck but hey…at least I can see the Angels annihilate them next week for cheap.
+ DJ at Black Cat mixing “House of Jealous Lovers” by The Rapture with “Our House” by Madness and Hot Chip’s “over and over”…shit was so impressive, sounded good and basically could make anyone shake their rump.
- No Wells Fargo
- Roaches. See these things everywhere. None at the apartment yet though.
- Waking up at 4 in the morning to gunshots….yeah that ain’t cool.
- 40 dollars for a ticket to a D.C. United game. Um what? Isn’t the MLS struggling for sales. Here’s a clue….lower the price of a ticket.
- Lack of diverse restaurants around my work. Three words: sandwich, soups, salads. That’s it.
- Trader Joe’s being so far away. I have to walk like 8 blocks and change 2 metro trains to get there.
- No internet at the house.
= No Hipsters. Or at least those serious, should be in a American Apparel ad, hipsters.
= Wearing business casual Monday through Friday. You look good but you gotta iron shit and take it to the cleaners and what not.
= Lack of Mexican food. Its probably about time I lay off the Mexican food and try other cuisines. There are many restaurants specializing in food from Latin countries but I still haven’t found a real Mexican Taqueria. I couldn't even find good salsa at the store.
5 comments:
yes, it's a bit odd going from college to wearing biz caz 5 days a week. if you let it get to you, you'll end up suffering from the biz caz blues.
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I'd give up the search for a good tacqueria on the East Coast and embrace the sandwich, the grinder, the hoagie, etc. Bagels... they should be mind blowing compared to PDX. Puerto Rican food, so delicious... but seriously, it's time to open your arms and get a good sandwich while you can. God. Just writing about sandwiches makes me foam, and unfortunately por moi, I, unlike you there in the mecca of sandwiches, am in Portland, where the simplest of foods (sandwich, pizza, bagel) are utter failures of taste 9 times out of 10. I have a better chance of orgasm via vegan chocolate cupcake made with cocoa hand crafted by a tribe in an ancient Aztec village. Lord have mercy.
Damn son I wish I was there to hear that DJ.
how about that nasty weather?? blah. the music there is sweet though.
dude there are plenty of hipsters in dc and richmond va
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