Weekend Weekend Weekend

This past week felt super long. Partially because I had to work on President's Day and only like a quarter of the office was in that day. So, I was super happy by the time Friday came!

Also, it's been a little stressful at work because I'm going out to LA at the end of this week and our board meeting is coming up too. I have a lot to do and only like 2% of is fun.

Mattan, Brie and I made our biweekly dinner plans. And I had originally wanted to go to this soul food place called Oohs and Aahs, because I don't eat soul food very often and I mean, it's a lot of carbs and meat, which is my thing.

Fried Chicken and Waffles--best way to relax on a Friday.

BUT the sad part was that the only vegetarian option on the menu is only available at lunch. So there was literally nothing Mattan could eat. He said he'd watch us eat and then we could go get something else for him later, but that's awkward. So instead we went to &Pizza.

It was pretty cool. And cheap. Which is hard to find in DC.  It's like Chipotle for pizza--you get to pick your toppings as you go down the line and they make it really quick.

They make like long rectangular  personal pizzas? I'd never seen one like that before, but I liked it so whateverrrrr.

Mine was good! And afterward we got frozen yogurt. And I mean...frozen yogurt, to me is always okay, but never that great. But it was nice to sit and talk with them!

Saturday morning I went and got my haircut. (Everyone except Taylor probably got my snapchats) I'd put up a picture but it's not very different  I've come to the conclusion that my hair dresser doesn't see many non-black people, and that's why she's always so excited to do my hair and insists on curling it.

So she curled it and I looked really fancy for when Ridwan came in from Baltimore! I guess med school is busy and blah blah blah so this was the first time we'd managed to see each other despite it only taking like an hour by train to get between Baltimore and DC.

Ridwan being fancy back in '07. (Good thing he doesn't read the blog or he'd prob be mad at me)

He got in sort of late so we didn't do a ton of touristy stuff but we went and walked around the capital, walked around gallery place/chinatown and saw DC things...No museums or anything since they all close between 5 and 7 and Ridwan didn't get to my house til like 4.

We also just happened to run into Brie and her roomie and Elizabeth and her bestie on the street too! It definitely made it seem like I know more people in DC than I really do. You know...so popular I just run into people all over! ...or not.

Then we got Chinese food in Chinatown. But the thing is, Chinatown doesn't really have that good of a reputation for Chinese food as hard as that is to imagine. But the place we ate was good! It has all these ducks hanging in the window and a whole bunch of fish and stuff and feels pretty authentic. God lo mein too!

Then we went to my coworker's party and proceeded to get pretty drunk. The last time we went to her house we each ended up drinking a bottle of wine, and it was that kind of night again.  Definitely some good office bonding, except that there's one coworker in particular we chose to not invite, and it's always hard to like pretend we weren't all together when we talk about our weekends back in the office. But, not like I missed her and I was def fine with her not coming.

Also, one of the guys there went to Notre Dame and wouldn't stop singing their fight song at me--but in like a good natured way, so I had to sing The Victors a lot, and I sort of half lost my voice. But you know, you can't not sing your fight song when challenged to.

So...because I drank so much, we kind of had a slow start to the day. But, we went to the Crystal City Sports Pub and watched Michigan beat Michigan State. NBD. Goooo Blue. I had tater tots. Delicious.

 Now I just have to do laundry and get ready for the week. Big week coming up, but by the end of it I get to go to LA for a couple days, so I'll just focus on that.