Jan. 31st, 2009

The bests are back in town! We're short one member because we can never seem to get ourselves ALL in the same place at the same time, but five out of six isn't too shabby. Tonight we trekked out to Bangkok Bistro in Georgetown for cocktails, Thai food & a little BFF lovin'.



And today concludes one full month of photos. I'm 1/12 of the way there!

Jan. 30th, 2009

A rare treat from Hello, Cupcake, only slightly worse for the wear after its journey home in a paper bag. Yummm.

Jan. 29th, 2009

In this pic, my coworkers tie makeshift togas on one another (& yes, the one in front is made of a tablecloth) in preparation of celebrating our Program Director's 35th birthday. His two programming staffers hearkened back to his higher-ed heyday at FSU, throwing him a "frat party" in the basement of our office -- complete with togas, of course, as well as non-alcoholic purple punch served up in a (clean!) trashcan... college-style, you know!

One of our interns was overheard saying, "I've never worked in an office like this before!"

Jan. 28th, 2009

Warming up at a local Starbucks after the Big Chill turned all our Tuesday snow to Wednesday ice. Crap photo, I know. Apologies.

Jan. 27th, 2009

First legitimate snow of the winter! I think I may the only person in the District who's really, really happy about it. It's sleeting now, & a lot of people are expecting offices (ours included?) to be closed tomorrow because this Southern city shuts down at the first hint of ice. Here's hoping! I wouldn't mind working from home in my sweatpants on a random chilly Wednesday.

Jan. 26th, 2009

Whoaaaa, today was busy, so I only felt it appropriate to give you a shot of my home away from home. This is my desk, which my coworkers joke somewhat resembles a seventh grader's locker. And below those ultra-liberal anti-war I've got hangin' there is my little system of organization, my Post-It Note-based to-do list: Pink are "not urgent," yellow are "do today" & purple are "do by tomorrow." Of course, my coworkers like to make fun of that, too.

And my miniature fan, which provides little relief from the sauna-like conditions in my windowless office, which I only somewhat affectionately call the Panic Room. And the picture frame I painted, holding a photo of my old coworkers (slash closest friends) & me in New Orleans last year. And on the right, my BFF's little bro's senior pic & two snapshots of my mom's adorable goddaughter, Daphne.

And in the middle? The computer I have to box up tomorrow morning to send to New York City so that our IT guys can either fix it or replace it. KILL MEEE.

Jan. 25th, 2009

As I mentioned before, working for the weekends makes my coworkers a little punchy. They'd been working a weekend-long seminar at a hotel in Virginia since Friday; I just showed up to help out on Sunday night & laugh at them as them as they all went a little crazy.