Luminations

If you’re super slow and still haven’t noticed my alphabetical patterned titling pattern…well, I guess tomorrow being V-day the “l” choice should have been natural. However, I’m rebelling as usual, against the cultural hype that thinks romance and love have something to do with each other. Oh wait, maybe they do, but that’s beside the point. MOST romance doesn’t involve love so I’m still right. Nothing new about that though…

Well, the weekend update isn’t particularly thrilling. I’ve been trying desperately to buckle down and philosophize my way through some difficult reading for my class…promising to get the next two weekends done since I’ll have visitors in town both weekends. I’ve really not been in the mood so just today I finally forced myself to be productive. I decided getting out of the house and away from an internet connection would help. So I started at Borders downtown… where I had to turn my discman completely up to drown out the Spanish lesson going on next to me or I was terribly distracted by the tutor’s mistakes. I tried drinking their coffee..bad mistake. It was funny cause the girl reacted when I handed her my credit card…which happens to be a “duetto” card meaning it’s both a starbucks card AND a visa and I use it for everything so I get starbucks credit every month when I pay it off. Anyways, she teased me about using a starbucks card at Border’s but after tasting their coffee I decided the 1% in starbux money I’d get was the only enjoyable thing that would come out of that purchase. Ugh. Anyways…I spent a couple hours studying there until my laptop battery died. Then I migrated back to Tenleytown (the area where I live)… and… drumroll please…. Ate dinner in a restaurant by myself. Yes, this was a big accomplishment. I never thought I’d be secure enough to do it. However, I’ve walked past this Thai restaurant everyday now and noticed tons of people eat there alone…and since that’s so common in the city I figured I should suck it up and try it. You could never get away with such a thing in Vero, of course….you’d need a loser sign on your table. It was really not awkward at all, especially since I was doing homework and I went early so it was quiet… I’m proud of myself =) Especially to do it the night before V-day..especially brave…

Anyways, then I went to Starbux, where I studied a while longer, finally ending my migrations back at home, where I am blogging before I return to studying b/c Immanuel Kant has boggled my mind and I must figure out what the heck he is writing about…

And the funniest moment of the day award goes to…

So I’m at Starbux, following my above described trek around the city. First, of all, I order and hand the girl my credit card, specifying to use the Starbux side as usual. She looks at me strangely and objects and then I realize I handed her the wrong cc…ironic due to my above experience at Borders. So I ran back to my stuff and retrieved the correct cc… but I’m not to the funny part yet… The guy who made my drink was trying to tell me it was on the counter and the girl was telling me something else and I heard the word “shirt” and I just nodded and said “yeah” as I grabbed my drink. She responded, “Oh, that’s cool…I’ll have to try that!” so as I walked back to my seat I wondered what the heck she was talking about and looked down at my rather normal black button up shirt. OH… my shirt was misbuttoned… a button off. The way it had been…of course…the entire day. Evidently, what she said and I didn’t hear, was to ask me if I knew my shirt was misbuttoned, and then when I said “yeah” she assumed it was a new style! SO…in a few months when everyone in D.C. is wearing their shirts misbuttoned, you’ll know who started it all… It could only happen to me…

Perhaps that’s why the waitress giggled everytime she came to my table during dinner. I wondered what that was about…

I’m so excited my family (well, 6 of them..mom,dad, jj, paul, hope, and ben) arrive tomorrow morning! It’s going to be a super crazy next week and a half but good. (they’re here through Friday, and then mark, laura, emma, and erik come up for the weekend through Monday) So I better get work done now cause otherwise it’ll never get done…