Tails of a 17th Street Geisha

Work is going to suck this week.

I just came back from a trip to Secaucus, New Jersey, which so happens to be 4 miles from NYC. I have been so busy as of late that I didn’t even know that I could get to NYC so easily. Had I known, and if I had made time to find out, I could have made plans to see Nikki, an old from in Brooklyn! I ended up having dinner with my boss Rino, a good guy, but who I had spent 6 hours driving up from DC to NYC already that day! he just came back from a week business trip to Stokholm, so we were both super-loopy… lesson: I’ve been in DC for a year and haven’t made it up to NYC unless for work–GET A LIFE DEB!

No wait—that is NOT true. I went to NYC on election night to watch the returns come in with the staff of Moveon (as I had a special invitation from former Feminist majority web boss, Roz, who now works for them). I cried along with Julia Stiles, Moby and the rest of the Moveon staff on the 23rd floor of a penthouse apartment overlooking central park. I drank Absynthe and drunkenly educated Julia Stiles about the 1 vote margin of support for Roe v wade from Sandra Day O’Connor and that the day would come and that Ohio had to go to Kerry because if we lose, there goes Roe. She didn’t get it. I almost had to use finger puppets to explain the split…

So work is going to suck, but I have to make outside life good to balance it. Thank GOD i met Bryan. he is making life infinitely more fun and has made me more motivated to leave work before 7pm. (that’s just the tip of iceberg in terms of how he’s made my life SO much better!)

So I need to stop distracting myself and start improving all areas of life. What should I do? Here’s a list:

1) SAVE MONEY (that way I can travel more and visit old friends in NYC, Miami, and London and travel to new places… one day I’ll go to Barcelona and ANY PLACE in Italy)

2) in order to save money I’ll need to DO MY BILLS ON TIME AND QUIT SHOPPING!

3) Instead of shopping I should: BRUSH UP ON MY SPANISH and find a conversation group or take a class. Perhaps an English/Spanish swap where I help a native spanish speaker learn english while she helps me practice in spanish?!

4) I spent time with a new coworker who wants to join a sports team and we’re both thinking perhaps volleyball, so I think I shall BECOME MORE ATHLETIC! I’m also training for a 5k. Laugh all you want, chuckleheads, it’s a 5k now, but I’ve set my eyes on a half marathon and then I’ll kick your ass when I’m done with it and run all over your entrails! that was kind of gross…

I’m going to leave my goals at that, I think… anything else?

*ps* I haven’t had a drink since July 2nd, although sometimes my resolve wavers, I don’t dare pick up a glass (I can never forget that I almost DIED!)

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