What a weekend!

This weekend, while not so productive in a work sense, was by far one of the best I've had in DC. It all started off with a 90's Party that our house decided to host, on Friday. While the weather outside was frightful, the party was quite so delightful with the smattering of guests. Not as many people as we thought were able to come, but it made the party a bit more intimate and fun in its own way. I had worked tirelesssly on a playlist that accuratelyrepresented the decade of my youth, with songs like Cher's 'Believe,' Vanila's 'Ice Ice Baby,' and numerous Ace of Base songs. I'd say that between the beer pong, the wine, the dancing, everyone who made it out had a great time. What a night, and at the time I thought that we couldn't do better than that. I was wrong.

The next day we were to go to a fundraising ball for one of the DC Non-Profits, a jesuit volunteer in the other house invited us all to go, and all we had to do was clean up a little! When I realized it was a formal event, my heart sunk. I did not bring my suit along with me to DC, and if I did go, I'd most certainly be the only one there in a dress shirt, unnnaccceepppttable. Luckily one of my house mates had an idea, asking a friend. So I texted one of my friends in the area, a prominent businessman, asking what his height was. 5'10'', my height! So i asked if he'd be ok with me borrowing one of his suits for dinner and he said yes! Saturday morning I headed over to pick it up and lo and behold, i was bestowed with the most amazing suit I've ever worn. Ready to take on high class society I got ready for the ball along with my housemates. It was the first time since we'd started the program that we had dressed up, for real. I'm not gonnna lie, we looked hot. I think at some point in the evening it was mentioned that one of the reasons we were invited was to make the crowd a bit younger and hotter, so I think we accomplised both goals. We arrived in a rainstorm, it was raining fairly hard and there was no parking near the Oranization of the American States (where the ball was being held). We dropped off two people near the building and went on a wild goose chase for parking. After around 10 minutes, we realized a 5 minute walk was not in the cards. We resigned to a parking spot 8 min away, and made our way towards 17th and Constitution. As we walked up the marble steps, I knew that things were about to get classy.
Everyone there was either in a suit or a tux, actually, 76 times out of 80 i'd say it was tux over suit, but hey, I still felt like I blended. Dinner was amazing, served buffet style, with amazing meats, veggies, breads, etc. I could go on and on but in short, the evevning was amazing, we stayed up until 1pm dancing to the live music and enjoying the beauty of an open bar (I however obstained as I was the DD).
To top the weekend off I had another soccer game out in Maryland and we won! 2-1, in the muddiest conditions I've seen since my high school days. It was great! Well, im glad to have filled ya in on the weekend as I type this from work. Today at work has been interesting as they just put in tile flooring in our office, but they didn't really finish everything so we weren't able to see patients today...I think they're now planning how to figure out this week but we'll see how things go! Until Next Time...

a breath of fresh air.

Today's been a slow day at work so I'm taking a little time to get back into the grove of bloggin, writin, reflectin, and giving my little fingers a bit of a workout while i lounge in my nice comfy chair. I can't believe that it is already friday, these past 2 weeks have just flown by. It seems like only yesterday that a few friends of mine were planning to come down to DC for a weekend, and now they're here! I'm constantly reminded of the time passing by at work as I fill out forms with the date, each time I wright out 10/9/09, I scratch my head and wonder where the time went. I think that now I'm starting to pay attention to the time passing by much more than I did before. When I was younger I longed for the clock to speed up while in class, each school year felt like an eternity.
Work has been going well, I had my best / most intense work day this week after meeting with a guy who graduated from GW med school. His take on medicine, and his good responses to my question got me suuuuper excited about applying, also extremely nervous about it as well....

I don't even know where to start, so when that happens I suppose I should talk about the recent stuff. Yesterday Nick arrived to DC, late, and we went out to go watch the Mizzou game at a local sports bar. As a result, this morning was the closest I've been to sleeping through my alarm. I woke up feeling like it was still 5am and i had a ton of time, when in reality I had 15 minutes to get my ass out of bed and out the door. I've been trying this week to live healthier as well, I've been weighing myself every day, and eating only when I need to. I used to be excessive in my appetite, I ate probably 6 times a day, probably over 3500 calories. I don't know how my body did it, but I managed to stay at around 180 lbs for 5 years. Now I know that the metabolism can't stay like this forever so I'm trying to make healthy eating decisions. My biggest struggles are not in the morning, or afternoon where I've already planned out my lunch and am confined to what is in my lunchbag, but the evening where the floodgates are opened, where I can eat and eat, getting seconds and sometimes thirds. It is at these times that I can't seem to feel satisfied when I eat and eat almost compulsively. So this week, I've resolved to be mindful of my eating habits, to not eat snacks late at night, and to try and keep my body healthy.

This weekend should be a lot of fun, while I know there is stuff to do, I'll find some time to get it done on Sunday, and leave the rest of the weekend for haning out with Kristina's family who are in town (for a delicious dinner) and with friends! Until next time.