Just as cold but at least it's not snowing!

Some quick things I forgot to mention:

I met a pug in Dupont, and as you know I love my puggy wuggies so I stopped to pet him. His name was Mazel as in Mazeltov. That's a pretty great name of a pug.

I watched an episode of Ugly Betty with Mables. That show is pretty entertaining. It's weird because Betty is so different from her "sister" who is supposed to be a "saucy latina woman" of sorts. My cousin works on that show as a production assistant and she's been telling me to watch it.

Anyways, yesterday at this bagel shop i was eating lunch at I saw this random dude in a UCLA hat. So I was like "Hey, did you go to ucla?" and he told me he did then gave me his card cause he said he knew it was rough being in a new town. He invited me to a party that I ended up going to last night. Getting there was a pain tho. DC is divided into four areas, NW, NE, SW, SE. 3rd and H street in NW is diff than 3rd and H street in NE. I went to the address at NW which is a soid 20 minute walk from the one in NE. I called the guy and we did the whole, you can't be at the corner cause I'm at the corner thing. I even yelled MARCO twice to no avail.

After we figured it out I walked there and went to the party which was pretty chill. It was interesting cause when you're in California everyone is from California too but the ppl I talked to were from Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, North Penn, Arkansas and Chicago. Nice folks. Very college feel but everyone is dressed better. Played some flip cup like a champ and tried to teach them my cool runnings start of chant: "Feel the rythym! Feel the Ride! C'mon everybody it's flip cup time!!!"

It didn't really catch on.

Anyways some quick hits -
Texans all think their Mexican food is better.
Chicagans are into meat.
There are apparently a lot of Desi folks in Arkansas.
They played the Danger Zone song from Top Gun.

Now for something completely different!
Found a pretty good Salvadoran place called Glorias. I'm positive this isn't the first Salvadoran place called Gloria's I've been to. Had some pupusas and they had a tv show on with my homeboy Vicente Fernandez on. Pretty sweet stuff.

The place with supposedly the best tacos in DC still aren't very good. Sigh.

Finally on to the housing hunt. It's a pain in the ass. I've walked so much. It's cold. Pretty much everyone has been nice though so it really could be a lot worse. I went back to one of the houses I checked out yesterday to meet the roomie that wasn't home then. She was pretty cool, from the OC and though she just started playing fantasy football she was clearly the real deal about it. They had a pretty cool cat named Asian Jack Bauer. Don't ask me why.

Another really cool place today too down in Shaw. It was another group house where everyone was prob late twenties and really cool. The woman who owns it is vietnamese and apparently her parents come almost every weekend to work on the house then make a big as banquet status dinner. I'd be pretty stoked to live there.

So at noon tomm when I check out of the Sheraton I'm homeless so wish me luck!