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Yay, anti-productivity
March 12, 2006 ( life )
This weekend has been a practice in getting non-school stuff done.
Friday night, I hung out with various an sundry friends at Island Jim's, an odd place within extended, if not exactly safe, walking distance from my house. It had decent drinks, and a good atmosphere -- it was an inside/outside patio place that will be fanstastic further into the spring and summer, and it ajoins a British pub type place, which will do well for next Winter. Bonus: it has free wifi. Is this my DC "default"? The crowd is an eccentric mix of NorthEast DC locals, students from Catholic University, and staff from the nearby hospitals. It's about a 15-20 minue walk from my house, but unfortunately it's not exactly a great neighborhood to be stumbling home through (Hasn't stopped me yet, mind you).
In celebration of an early sneak-preview of Spring, Saturday, I and some other grad students headed out into deep VA to visit the Virginia wine country. Three tastings and four bottles later, we were happily buzzed and well informed on Virginian wine. The short story is: their whites are decent, their reds suck ass, but it's a great way to spend the day.
That night, I linked up with a fellow ex-RPCV from Jamaica who's becoming my most reliable dancing partner in DC, and we and her friend from even deeper Virginia hit Havana Village for their salsa bands--Havana is definitely a good salsa club. You can usually avoid cover if you arrive there not-even-that-early, and even then it's $5-10, so not unheard of. They have three floors, two bands, and a DJ, serve excellent Mojitos and Caipirinhas, and are usually crowded enough to see some excellent salseros, but not so crowded that you can't squeeze in and join the dancing.
This morning, I forced myself to get out of bed instead of lounging in, and met my uncle at the Smithsonian for some museuming and lunch. He was in town on his way through NYC to see the Smithsonian's presentation of Dada on his way to Paris to work on his Dada book/project (you might say that he wrote the book on Max Ernst.
The remainder of the day, I'm doing some much-needed laundry, working on trip-planning for next weekend, and perhaps some catch-up work, planning my schedule for next semester, and whatnot. Whee.
Posted by griffjon at March 12, 2006 05:15 PM
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