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Monthly Archives: September 2003

Overheard on Dupont

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Man on cellphone: “So I ran into Joan…No, no, the one you impregnated…Just outside the Gap.”

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Nilly

Saturday, September 20, 2003

Just got a phone call from Nilly, en route from Georgia to Annapolis to attend Keving Higgins’s wedding:
What the fuck? Virginia’s trashed.
Reportedly, Mr. Banerjee will be back in a few weeks for an interview at UVA.
Sat: Maybe I shouldn’t have told him that everything in Annapolis was probably OK.

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Crash, bang, whimper

Friday, September 19, 2003

So it rained a little bit and a few branches fell down…big deal.
The important thing in DC is whether the Metro will be open tomorrow.
More on the Metro later.
Friday: Took a cab to work at 8:30. It took 5 minutes to do about 25 blocks. That’s amazing.

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Would the last person to exit the building please turn off the light?

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Work is closed tomorrow.
Kind of disappointing. I thought we were a bulwark against this sort of thing. You know, communism, socialism, fascism (well, we think so), excessive government vacation days, etc.
Yes, I’ll be at the office, anyway. There’s plenty to do after not getting much done today.
Maybe I’ll go in late, though…9:30 or 10, [...]

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Waiting for Isabel

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Because we are irresponsible and lazy to the core, we eagerly anticipate calamities, tragedies, and disasters, which are a legitimate, even noble and civic-minded, excuse to abandon duty and give ourselves up to the present.
So we await the hurricane and its respite.
Other times we are struck by the sameness of our days and the tedium [...]

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Lengthy emails

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

We have (had? more later) a close friend who was ahead of us in school and thus set out into the world ahead of us as well. She was also a bit more adventurous than we, which meant that she really did step out. Or maybe she was reckless; it doesn’t matter. The point is [...]

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We is back

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

…and faster than evah!
Yes, it’s hard for an overeducated someone to fake poor spelling and grammar unless he has a specific speech group in mind.
Which he does not, right now.
Today we left work at 5 PM, very early for us the way things have been going lately, to work on the website, which we promised [...]

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