Yesterday
* Indian food with Mark for lunch YUM!
* The tiny aquarium in the basement of the D.O.C. FUN!
* The Museum of Natural History, trilobites, monotremes, dinosaurs, spent all the time I wanted to there, HOORAY!
* Dinner with Jason then walking, talking, drinking, talking. FABULOUS!!
* Hulk Hogan on Biography, INSOMNIA!
Then today…
* Dim sum with Jason, YUM
* Coffee and talking and geeking out with Jason, YELLOW CARD!!
* Meeting Mark at the zoo (and it should be noted that Mark made a special trip in the rain JUST to meet me at the zoo, JUST so we could see the hippos. Mark is a good friend indeed), HIPPOS!
* Seeing AVP at the Uptown in DC. MASSIVE screen, just fucking massive, with great sound and a balcony. Defying popular opinion I’m going to give this movie a thumbs up. (I’m sorry, Alan, I just couldn’t wait, I’ll still see it with you)
* Now I’m off to see AC Newman at the Black Cat. I’d better see you there!!!

Tired
So last night Mark and I go to dinner then go back to his place to hang out and catch up. I brought my laptop so I could get my email and whatnot.
It was a giggly good time. Actually, Mark doesn’t giggle, but I do. It was so good to just hang out with him, no plans or activities or running around, just hanging out.
Unfortunately, all my previous running around and his long days at work caught up with us. We were exhausted. Sigh, I wish I could travel like other people, with the constant excitement and siteseeing, but whatever. We needed calm and we got calm. Nice. Very nice.
When I went to bed last night I took the 853,769 pillows on my bed and made a nest. Good move, I slept really well. Bad move, I slept through the alarm and overslept. I don’t feel to bad about it though. I’ve been to DC, I’ve seen the sites many times, I don’t feel bad if I miss a few.
Mark and I are going to lunch today, Indian food! Later I’ll hit the mall and visit the aquarium and the natural history museum. Then dinner with another friend.
Tomorrow…HIPPOS!!!!!

(! = for real this time)
!!!!!!!!!!
So today I look at 4.8 million townhouses. It was exciting. I thought I had the best place picked out before I got here, but the realtor had 3 more properties for me to look at and suddenly there was an angelic ‘waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah’ from the sky and a seriously freaky sunray shining on my head (could have been the massive amounts of coffee, but I prefer to believe that in was the sky). Now I have 3 favorites, each one has some major pro’s and some minor cons. I have some decisions to make.
My current favorite has an entire master suite with it’s own bathroom and everything. Also on a very quiet street with a boulevard. Also also the most expensive of them all, but I’m playing with the numbers and I think it’s completely doable. Wooo!
Today is all !!!!!!!! for real and fun.
Then I got to DC and let’s see…lunch, nap, fighting with internet access.
Mark got completely lost in the rain trying to find my hotel, but we managed to find each other. So good to see him again (but he needs to eat a sandwich or something, he’s skinny as hell). We had some sushi and now he won’t let me smoke on his balcony. Sigh.
Now I’m chilling on his futon watching Sealab 2021 and watching him clean his place (once again, he knew for weeks that I was coming to visit and he waits to clean).
Tomorrow, he’s taking me to lunch and I’m going siteseeing. Need to get batteries for the camera, though. Dinner with the awesomest guy in the district, he’s better have a good excuse for not updating his website.
ps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The exclamation point was to convince you of something that doesn’t exist. Day 1! had no actual excitement. 3 airports, a looooooong shuttle ride and my hotel.
Highlights of my day included getting room service, smoking in my hotel room (apparently all the rooms allow smoking, the non-smoking room is the exception, this is very odd), Reading 2/3 of the DaVinci Code, and walking around the Johns Hopkins campus (nice place but way far away from anything cool) and free wireless! (! for excitement!).
Tomorrow I meet with the realtor and HOPEFULLY everything will go well and I can make another solid step into my new life.
I’m off to finish my book and sleep off my 2 beers. Woo!!!!!!!
ps I miss my puppy terribly.