OK Let's try this again. With feeling.
This week has been a ROUGH week in terms of actually waking up in the morning. I haven't made it to work on time ONCE (although made it by 6:15 or 6:20 everyday.) This is because I absolutely BRUTALIZED myself last weekend, for the sake of Jenn's Bachelorette Party (a.k.a. Marbourg Mania.)
Eight of us hopped on the Chinatown-to-Chinatown bus at 3:30AM Saturday morning. Of course, Friday night I was tempted to the County by offers of the Caps v. Pens playoff game (I don't have cable) and a keg. I didn't get back to DC until 11pm and hadn't packed yet. At that point there was OBVIOUSLY no point to slumber, so with the aid of a can of Amp, I opted for the all-nighter route. Unfortunately I discovered that cab companies don't answer their phones at 2:30AM, so I had to sprint to the metro toting a 20 pound backpack and catch the last train to Chinatown. We got to NYC at 7Am and checked into The Michaelangelo hotel (AWESOME place) and wandered around 5th Ave and Times Square a bit.
During Breakfast at "Maxi's" we instituted the tradition of leaving one card from our deck of naked male playing cards at every location we visited. hehehehe! I heart NYC, too bad you can't effectively ride horses in the city, otherwise it would be perfect. 
After our wanderings, we caught a matinee showing of "Wicked". What an amazing show!! I think its in my top 3 favorite musicals (Wicked, Phantom, Cabaret.) I think I like the book a little better for its more dramatic moments, but the musical was well-adapted. After the show a few of our party decided to take a nap, but the rest of us decided the best course of action was margaritas at TGIF's. After that onto an AWESOME dinner at an Italian restaurant called "Remi". The hotel concierge whom Reese befriended sent complimentary pink champagne and cookies.
After dinner, we headed to the Meat Packing District (giggle giggle) for some dancing and debauchery. The first bar, SOB's was a bit of a bust, minus the evil evil Mind Erasers Jenn insisted upon ;-) Most of our party dissipated except for Jenn, Tai, and I so we headed to Webster Hall, which was having a Circus-themed party. $30 cover (GAG!) but a FANTASTIC time. 3 floors of dancing (including Turkish dancing??), Navy boys, trannies, and drinks until 3:30 AM. FANTASTIC! 
Then we cabbed back to the hotel and decided that we couldn't possibly in good conscience tote the 8 mini-bottles of wine back to Maryland so we'd better drink a few out of the penis straws we had as party favors. Since Reese was already asleep the only logical place to do this was in the walk-in closet, where I eventually fell asleep.
The bus ride home was annoying. Although we had a marvelous dance party in the station while waiting. The bus company had NO CLUE which bus was non-stop to DC and, in fact, changed destination on us while we were WAITING TO LEAVE. It ended up stopping in Philly and Bmore before ending up in DC.
This week has been reasonably cut and dry. I am attempting to ramp up my training for the Columbia Irongirl Triathlon in August. I rode Max M, T, W; ran 5 miles (7:12 pace!) M; swam 1050 yds T; and biked 12 miles on my sweet new roadbike on Wednesday. Yesterday I met up with Flounder after work to have a late lunch/early happy hour at Matchbox then a trip to the Naitonal Portrait Gallery. This weekend SHOULD be comparably tame- ride Max with Diane today then to the county; horse show and Bachelorette Party for Sara Saturday; work out and hang with Joan on Sunday.
My roommates and I did find out this week we have to move out of our house. Big bummer that adds complications to my already complicated year (as I am not sure where I'm going to be after September!).
Anyways. Whatev.
Peace out!
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