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...
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