Still no computer at home due to a missing power cord. I am settled in and LOVING IT! Last Friday Curtis and I met up with Mr. Chris Lanning at Adam's Morgan to go to a bar called Madam's Organ for some drinks and live blues. It was excellent! Saturday a LTC from across the hall took me through a tour of the capital where we got to listen to the senate in session for a while (some lame-brain lacking math skills was speaking). Then we took the tunnel to the Library of Congress, which is so, so beautiful. I will post pictures once I have a computer. After that we went to the post office to see the view from the tower, had tea at the National Gallery of Art, and ate dinner at Old Ebbit Grill, next to the white house. After some drinks to warm up we went to see the National Christmas tree. Then I went to Claredon to meet up with my roommate and his friend, and they were late. I struck up conversation with some men my age, engineers, and we had a few drinks. One had to leave, and the other accompanied me to the bar where we were meeting Curtis. We had a great time, though the guy who was performing was terrible (he would play his guitar and sing all the songs he probably learned in high school and tried to pick up chicks with).
No matter...
Yesterday I went on my first official date in DC--had an excellent time. Pretty standard dinner and a beer but the company was great and the conversation was fantastic.
Working at the pentagon is interesting. Larry was so totally wrong when he said it was a place for heels, though. It's a place for sneakers--many people carry their work shoes into work and only wear them around their specific office. I have been making the heels work all day, though, because I think a dress skirt and nylons with sneakers looks far too ridiculous (even if everyone else is doing it). I am definitely one of the youngest there. In my office I am youngest by a fair margin, though I do have younger coworkers in the professional sense. There are a lot of lieutenant colonels and colonels and some 1,2 and 3 star generals and civilian-wise lots of high grades. I will move up fast, or so I am told by my coworkers. In DC, though, you do everything fast.
Taking the metro is great--I love it except for the last four stops coming home. It's always packed and stuffy and full of students with backpacks.
Our apartment is so beautiful...very clean and nice. We have a gorgeous Christmas tree (red and silver) and I am enjoying making dinner most nights (Curtis has to do Wednesdays and on Fridays we order take out). I finally got a bed frame for my matress (which is memory foam and oh so awesome) and a bookcase but my room is far from complete. I have a lot of work to do to make it feel like home. Mom has been so awesome shipping out my stuff; I think I have everything I need now and then some!
It's supposed to snow tomorrow night and all day Saturday; I am really looking forward to it. I'll definitely take pictures!!
Miss you all and love you to pieces!
xoxo
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