Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner
I'm writing this in the bedroom of my new apartment thanks to Comcast cable internet and an installation guy who called me "boss" no less than a hundred times in five minutes. I would have written sooner about my new place but along with the Internet I also got a promotional offer of digital cable and it is quite hard to think about doing anything else when the blockbuster 'Kate and Leopold' is playing thirty times a day. The new place is at the south end of Arlington only a couple of exits away from my job on 395. It's a corner apartment on the top floor so I've only got to worry about annoying neighbors directly underneath me. This weekend though I headed out of town to visit the charm city, Baltimore.
My friend Kelly from work went to college at Loyola up in B-more along with one of Dave's friends from PC, Anne Marie who is best friends with one of Kelly's roommates. Anne Marie was going to be in town just for the weekend on a Portfolio Center recruiting trip so we decided to head up and party. Just in case you're not convinced yet that it's a small world after all Kelly's other roommate used to date the lead singer of the Bureau which played with us at one of the Dance Marathons at UVA. Their guitarist Jordan, who was good friends with Dave, was actually at a party at Kelly's place that I was also at a few months ago. It's all a little bit eerie.
The weekend's shenanigans started off with a barbecue at the same apartment complex that I had been to less than a year ago for dinner with a couple of Dave's fellow TFA members. After all of these coincidences, when I close my eyes I can actually see the little animatronic children dancing around singing it's a small world after all. I kept the Werner tradition alive and brought bacon and was pleased to see that someone else brought a watermelon, prompting everyone to quote Dirty Dancing for the next hour. I represented JMU by doing what I spent four years of college learning and perfecting, playing flip cup.
After playing 'She's Wearing the Yellow Dress' and a game of Thumper we headed to yet another familiar place, Kelly's bar; the site of numerous TFA karaoke nights. Not too long after a pretty dreadful performance of a Cyndi Lauper tune Tammer and Charlie from 103 Swashington St. showed up to have a few drinks. Also stopping by later in the night was Jason and Sarah along with one of Jason's friends from out of town. Nick and Mike were both out of town so a follow up trip or two to Baltimore is in order before their school year ends.
We left the next morning singing along to the Dixie Chicks all the way back to DC.
Sunday, May 2 at 8:28 PM
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