June 17
Yuck. I woke up at 5:15am this morning. Way too early. The plan was to get up early, get to work really early and then leave extra early. I already had worked an hour of "credit hour" time this week so I could leave an hour earlier. Things went okay… got to work at 7am and left at 2:30pm. Work was fine. Fast. At lunchtime, which was at like 11am, I took the opportunity to go outside for a walk. It's been a lot cooler, a lot more bearable, the last couple of days, although it was a little windy. I walked around the Capitol and the Botanic Gardens buildings and all the way to the reflecting pool. It was very nice and I took some nice shots of the Capitol. We'll see if they turn out if I ever get my film developed.
Leaving work early was fantastic, although by the time I got to my car and hit the road, it was already about 4pm and I got stuck in MAJOR traffic. Okay, yes, I'm a doofus and my brilliant plan to cut some time out of my trip by driving to a Metro station actually resulted in me losing about 40 minutes as I looked EVERYWHERE for my car and could not find it. Oops. Seems there is a North parking lot and a South parking lot by this particular Metro station and stupid me didn't realize this and wandered around the area (the wrong area) trying to figure out where the heck my car was. But, traffic was already bad by then and I don't think it would have mattered. It ended up taking me 90 minutes just to get out of Virginia - for any of you who understand the landscape of DC, you may realize just how close to being out of Virginia I am staying in Alexandria. Overall, though, once traffic started moving and I used my newly acquired AAA maps to make up my own route back to Syracuse, I was home by 11:30pm, so I think I made some pretty good time. Oh yeah, but I didn't go straight home - I went to the bar where my friends were all wasted out of their minds. Nice. And I didn't get home until almost 5am, which, yes, means I was up for almost 24 hours. But that's okay!! I'm not going to turn down an invitation to hang out at the bar after closing, even if it was only because the bartender wanted to get into my friend's pants. :)
Leaving work early was fantastic, although by the time I got to my car and hit the road, it was already about 4pm and I got stuck in MAJOR traffic. Okay, yes, I'm a doofus and my brilliant plan to cut some time out of my trip by driving to a Metro station actually resulted in me losing about 40 minutes as I looked EVERYWHERE for my car and could not find it. Oops. Seems there is a North parking lot and a South parking lot by this particular Metro station and stupid me didn't realize this and wandered around the area (the wrong area) trying to figure out where the heck my car was. But, traffic was already bad by then and I don't think it would have mattered. It ended up taking me 90 minutes just to get out of Virginia - for any of you who understand the landscape of DC, you may realize just how close to being out of Virginia I am staying in Alexandria. Overall, though, once traffic started moving and I used my newly acquired AAA maps to make up my own route back to Syracuse, I was home by 11:30pm, so I think I made some pretty good time. Oh yeah, but I didn't go straight home - I went to the bar where my friends were all wasted out of their minds. Nice. And I didn't get home until almost 5am, which, yes, means I was up for almost 24 hours. But that's okay!! I'm not going to turn down an invitation to hang out at the bar after closing, even if it was only because the bartender wanted to get into my friend's pants. :)
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