Hopefully they'll menage before i hit my garage

Chyea chyea chyea ain't no love in the heart of the cityyyy ain't no love in the heart of the townnnn

Heart of the City is straight up my favorite Jay-Z song I think. Some of the rhymes and just the beat is so damn good. If you haven't heard the song it samples "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" by Bobby "Blue" Band. Shit is fiyahhh

Anyways on to some updates.

Yesterday for work I got to go to this thing at the Center for American Progress where they had Sect of Labor Hilda Solis and Sect of Commerce Gary Locke do a talk about how immigration is legit and how comprehensive immigration reform is the shit. It was pretty cool. I've met Locke once at an API policy summit thing in sac. Pretty cool he was the first asian american governor. CAP also has mad money so they had amazing sandwiches. I had part of a roast beef croisantwich, a salmon sandwich, and I managed to take a chicken one with me for later. What can I say, everyday i'm hustlin. Well not really but I'm trying to save some cash so whatcha say? I met a cute girl there, got to chat with her a bit and walked with her to the metro. I got her email rather than her number so it's hardly ideal but it could be worse. Thats DC for ya.

I got off work early so I figured I'd check out the futon store i always saw on the bus going to work. Turns out it was out of business but I was a qtr of the way home so I figured I'd walk. It was cold but it's not like i had shit else to do and I wanted to check out some of the restaurants along the way. Stopped by this place called Granja de Oro which had Peruvian roasted chicken and it was legittt. paid $5.50 for a qtr chicken, some salad and some yucca fries. I wasn't huge on the yucca fries, i guess it's an acquired taste and I figured it'd leave me some room for dinner pt 2. I am clearly a slovenly man for having two dinners. fuck you man don't judge me.

As I continued my walk around the area I checked out 18th street which is the Adams Morgan bar street. There was a legit looking kebab place and what was, according to my ethiopian cab driver the best ethiopian place in dc, called merkat or something? iunno i'm def gonna check it out cause my cabbie was tight. We talked about Haila Sellase and Michael Jordan. That's wassup. There was also a Louisiana style joint too that looked good, esp for breakfast or brunch.

Anyways back on to columbia rd I went to check out the three mexican places that i'd been scoping out from the bus. Mixtec was like 12 bucks a person. They also have a campaign to make tortas popular here. how funny, we in cali have always known the glory of the torta. EL Super Taco in LA called it the toasted sandwich on the grilled. That isn't necc wrong but I wouldn't say it's right either. There were two other places called Super Taco and Combinacion which had Salvadoran food too. I went to Combinacion to get some pupusas as sort of a small ish dinner part two. The waitress def spoke no english and I'm too embarrassed to even attempt spanish so we sorta did a pointing thing for a while before the guy who owned the joint came out and was like u want two pupusas right? It was pretty good, spicier than I'm used to but it makes you feel alive. and thirsty. On the tv there looked like the best mexican soap opera ever. It was totally the normal crap but about luchadores. How great is that?

Today was another day of the grind at work. Nothing too exciting but w/e. Three ppl are leaving so we had a going away thing at Mai Tai. Drinking with the office ppl is weird. We got there sorta late so there was that everyone is done we're getting started. And I def still drink with the abandon of a college student. Glass of beer in 3-4 swigs I guess isn't the norm past a certain age. Not to say that my coworkers are old but i'm the youngest by at least 5-6 years. Afterwards me, one of my bosses, the communications lady and the intern i replaced went to a diff bar.

This next bar was considered, according to Nicole (the comm lady), a senate bar. meaning that the senate side staffers all go there. It was called Johnny on the Halfshell. Apparently they had a midnight vote so there was actually a senator from NJ killing time at the bar. Nicole said that the diff between Senate and House bars is largely age. Since senators are there longer they tend to have adult staffs while the house is so big that they have armies of interns around my age. Apparently there are pretty partisan bars too, so some are known as gop or dem bars, though nicole said that whichever group is in the majority still sort of dominates the bar scene as well. Makes sense since if you lose a bunch of seats your interns lose jobs.

Anyways was too tired and broke to go out with Mable and Co so I went home for a somewhat early night.

I'm gonna meet up with Suhad, one of Dro's friends tomorrow so that should be cool. Besides it's friday! and not just any friday, CASUAL FRIDAY

i want a fucking torta cubana too