My first Friday at work...finished my memo about birth tourism in the morning and wrote a letter about Home health Services initiated by medicare. Busy, but the last hour was completely unproductive. Just sat around the table at the end of the day with John, Dan, and Erica and talked about nothing. I think I am really lucky that the people of my office are awesome. Really enjoy working and hanging out with them.
After work I came home and hung around with Shawna and we went out for drinks at Union Pub with the guys who live downstairs. Got some Sangria and then came home to hang out and wait for the birthday girl, Amber, and Hannah who had gone out to dinner. Really like the guys and we had a good time.
Eventually we were ready to go out (at like 11:30)but Amanda was on the phone with her family and got depressed that she missed them and didn't want to go out. We left, but Nima wasn't going to make it, so at Union Station he finally gave in to going home so BJ and Fernando took him home. Sitting in the metro waiting for the train Justin puked so Hannah stayed with him and Amber and I got on the train with Shawna and her friend and some guy but at our transfer stop Amber decided she wanted to go back because we were all split up. We went back and ran into Hannah and Justin walking back and they had found Joe so we went back with them.
Amber and I went to Union Pub where the bar tender loves her and gave us a free shot while we waited for Fernando, Joe, and BJ. It turned 1:00 so I called Eric at midnight central to wish him happy birthday. We eventually decided to go to Adams Morgan so hopped in a cab. The cabbie was this crazy dude and he started driving around in crazy directions and the guys were calling him out on it and then we got stopped at a police check point thing and he got ticketed for having too many people in the car. We all put bets in on how much it was and even the driver got in. It was only $50. eventually we got there, but the meter had been running through the whole cop ordeal so the guys were pissed and paid him $6 and we got out.
We went to a bar named "The Reef" I believe and I was walking to get in line I hear someone yell "Martha Coe!" I had no idea what was going on when I turned around and saw none other than....Carson Gorecki. It was crazy and I talked to him for a bit until he got in so I went back to my group. The first floor was just a bar and basically a waiting room. The second floor was dancing and the third floor where we ended up was the roof with tables and a laid-back feel. It was nice and I talked with Joe for a long time.
Eventually we had to leave and pull Fernando away from some guys he met. As we walked looking for a cab Fernando started talking to me in Spanish about the hispanic experience in the U.S. We found a cab and I have NO idea what happened but Fernando and the cab driver started talking about race in the U.S. and the cab driver started making us listen to Elijah Muhammad's son give a speech and talking about black supremacy. It was one of the craziest experiences. Hannah and Amber were just pissed because it was about 3:30 in the morning. haha.
At home I called Eric again and we talked for a while until he went to sleep and I wanted to go in, but we were sitting on the stoop with Fernando Joe and Nima's friend and Fernando told me to stay out and talk. I have no idea what we were talking about, but Fernando got into doing spoken word and I eventually needed to go to bed so I went in and went to sleep at like 4:30. Very long and interesting night.
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