Wednesday, 07 September 2011

Is This Thing On?

What happens if I do this?
by: DJGroovySlug at September 07, 2011 14:53 | link | comments

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Is This Thing On?

I don't even know if Mo'time is still sending out RSS. My guess is no, since I haven't received my posts in my own feed. But if you are here and enjoy reading this little space, I've taken my little show on the road, gone all entrepreneurial and set up my blog on my own domain: arleneton.com.  I suppose this means you can actually find pictures of me now, if you really care but don't you want to keep the mystery alive? If you must know, I look exactly like Scarlet Johanssen. There, now that we got that out of the way.

I'm sorry to leave this little home but the community seems to have moved on, the technical aspects of Mo'time have gone to complete shit, and I also just really really like the name Arleneton. God I'm awesome. Okay I didn't come up with it, but whatever. Go there, enjoy my new blog, assuming I actually update it. Good-bye sweet Mo'time*!

*Mo'time: please don't disintegrate before I figure out a way to capture all my content from this blog. Thank you.
by: DJGroovySlug at April 15, 2009 17:35 | link | comments

Wednesday, 08 April 2009

A Meeting of the Vacation Planning Committee

Me: what's something we can do that's like really really cliche?
Marc: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesspics/518468610/
Me: SOLD.
by: DJGroovySlug at April 08, 2009 14:36 | link | comments (1)

Tuesday, 07 April 2009

Poseur.

Me: DAMNIT. santigold concert in june while I'm in europe.
Boy: do you really like santogold??? or just the one song
Me: well...just the one song.
Boy: haha
Me: but it's a really good song!!
by: DJGroovySlug at April 07, 2009 20:39 | link | comments

Monday, 30 March 2009

I've been reading about people who get fired for their blogs for no reason -  like, not even talking about work! - so I'm trying to lay low when it comes to posting during the workday.  I've been so busy so I'll make this quick:
  • I ran another 5k yesterday and didn't have the greatest time in the world but it was better than last time.  My new goal is to be faster. 
  • I also thought I pulled something right after running since my left quad hurt something awful but over the course of the day it dissipated and now I'm fine again. 
  • I have lots of trouble finding time to run.  I could start going in the morning but my energy level isn't very high then so I don't run as far or fast as I'd like.  And I already go to bed too early as it is, I don't want to be getting into bed at 9:30 every night.  Ideally my friends would stop needing to eat IMMEDIATELY AFTER WORK but this isn't NYC, we eat dinner at a reasonable hour. Sigh.
  • I'm wearing the world's itchiest skirt right now; it's driving me insane.
  • I've been very busy with school and then trying to stuff running and being social in there too.  I'm v. tired.
  • Spring seriously cannot get here fast enough, even if it means the return of the cockroach army in Adams Morgan.
  • A while back I hit up Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery and Spike was there and he was totally making the eyes at me. But let's face it, Spike probably figured out a while ago that if he just made the eyes at every female who recognized him, he'd probably be hitting .350. Not a bad average, really.  Also, the chili burger is amazing.
  • Yesterday I was sitting outside at a cafe owned by this Belgian couple and this girl next to me was trying to convince one of the owners to go to this restaurant called  "Granville and Moore's".  Is it just me or does DC have a really high proportion of people who are both smart and dumb at the same time? (I'm not saying I don't belong in that group either...)
  • I have no idea what is going on in school about 65% of the time.
  • I haven't slept well for three days straight and it's starting to take its toll on me.  I am generally a good sleeper but I do go through these periods sometimes, randomly just waking up.  It's probably stress-related but I don't feel stressed so who knows.
  • I made a pot of chili and was waiting for it to cool before I put it in the fridge.  I'm sure you can imagine what happened next. 9am rolls around and I go into the kitchen and there's the pot of chili.  Factions seem to be 50/50 split on whether or not it's still fine to eat. I put it in the fridge but frankly, I can't bring myself to eat it. I'll consider this an expensive and wasteful lesson in "stop being a spazz."
Okay I have to get some work done.  I'll be back soon!
by: DJGroovySlug at March 30, 2009 09:03 | link | comments

Friday, 20 March 2009

I would update you on the wonderful goings-on in the World of Arlene! but it's March Madness and during this time I generate enough energy to power a Cirque du Soleil show for a two week engagement.  This is why you should never encourage me to fill out a bracket.  So yes, I'm running lots, bought a couple of really cute dresses, had a week off of school for spring break, cooking yadda yadda yadda JESUS CHRIST DAYTON YOU BETTER PULL OFF THIS UPSET.
by: DJGroovySlug at March 20, 2009 14:59 | link | comments

Thursday, 05 March 2009

The Future of America, Part 2

friend: look, Michelle Obama served food at a soup kitchen
me: sigh. she's the wife of the president.  i can't even bother separating my recycling sometimes.
friend: ha well her job is to like inspire america. that's her whole job, to make the rest of us look bad.
me: oh. right.
friend: not that i can't skip a two hour bath on saturday mornings to go feed the homeless or something
me: true...i'm scared of the homeless.  sure, give me a battalion of secret service men, i'll feed the homeless
friend: ugh what's the point. we live in dc, full of type-a people who live civil service. the other day on the bus this girl was like "i'm on the waitlist for big brother/big sister."
me: good point.  i don't feel as bad anymore.
friend: michelle has only been here a few months and has done 100 times more community service than us and we've done 0.
me: and 0 x 100 = 0.  woohoo!
friend: i went to a transportation meeting to complain about the bus once, does that count?
me: once i picked up some trash off the ground
friend: i'm not actively mean to homeless people
me: you know, that means you're ahead of like 5% of the population.

The Future of America, Part 1 available here.
by: DJGroovySlug at March 05, 2009 16:32 | link | comments

Wednesday, 04 March 2009

I'm on my second cup of tea which means I'm really barely keeping the eyelids propped open after lunch this afternoon. Hopefully blogging will invigorate me. Let's go to today's talking points:

Something is up with Motime. I remain faithful to this blogging platform because blogger sucks and tumblr & I are no longer on speaking terms but as I type this, error messages keep popping up. Come on Motime, keep it together. I've been totally affected by the horrible economy, even if I'm not directly affected. I still have my job but I basically spend a lot of time freaking out that I won't have my job. I'm ramping up efforts at school, working like crazy and generally being a total freak about spending any money whatsoever. It's been good for me to get my butt in line but I also suspect my mental health is slowly fraying at the edges.

However, there are two things in my life that have kept me from unraveling completely. First, I've been training for a 5k and 10k. I may actually run a 10k! Three years of new year's resolutions finally realized! Anywho, I've been training with a group of lovely people, some who are big show-offs and shouldn't be slumming it in the 10k running group when the half-marathoners run at the same time, and then there are the rest of us, who lowball it every time because no one wants to be the first person to walk. We've only ran 2-3 miles at a time so far so I haven't been panicking but once we get into the four and five mile runs I think the stress level will go up, hopefully concurrently with my adrenaline level which will help me finish the runs. My only other complaint is that they've been meeting at the ungodly hour of 8am on a Saturday. Sometimes I'm not even awake at 8am to get to work, let alone go exercising.

I think I really need a new pair of running shoes but frankly I'm lazy and cheap and we're in a recession! But I also suspect I should do something about it because my left knee bothers me sometimes (during all activities: running, walking, and going up & down stairs). Famous last words, eh? Maybe I’ll walk over to the running shoe store this evening.

My other new found love is cooking. The Boy and I exhausted of eating out except in certain rare occasions, so our cooking levels have ramped up considerably (admittedly I do most of the cooking but he’s stepped up as well). I’m also enjoying producing food for myself; it calms my nerves and keeps me busy without feeling like I’m doing work.

The only problem with the cooking obsession is my new fondness for various kitchen gadgetry, cookware and cookbooks. The cookbooks are easy to deal with, since the internet exists and I have no qualms about going to Borders to read straight out of cookbooks for good ideas. But I am hankering for an enameled cast-iron dutch oven in the worst way. And now’s the time to get one, before it gets warm and I want nothing to do with hot, slow-cooked comfort food.

In other random exciting news, I acquired a bike through a friend in Charlottesville. Two other friends and I drove down to pick it up and turned it into a fun day trip, stopping off for some Bodo’s, hitting up a wine tasting at the Kluge Estate (which I highly recommend), taking a house tour at Monticello and finishing up with dinner at Continental Divide. It was pretty much one of those perfect super fun days that was only marred by the awful rain/frozen rain on the drive home.

So now I have a bike and it sits in my storage unit at the entrance to my apartment and I look at it every day and have no idea what to do with it. I guess I need to buy a helmet and lock? I can already tell you right now that those are going to cost more than the bike itself. And frankly, I’m a little afraid of it. I never got used to riding in traffic in Oxford, which is considerably less metropolitan and far more bike friendly than DC. Okay new goal: once it hits 70, you have to take the bike somewhere. The grocery store one block away counts.

Wow this post has no energy whatsoever, which pretty much fits into my mood right now. When are they going to hurry up and put napping rooms throughout offices so that we can rest up after lunch? Oh right, the recession, no time for sleep! Gotta make money!
by: DJGroovySlug at March 04, 2009 15:20 | link | comments (3)

Friday, 06 February 2009

For Everyone's Future Reference

Things I Don't Care About
  1. Christian Bale and his tirade
  2. Michael Phelps and his bong
  3. Lost
  4. 25 Random Facts About Me lists on Facebook

Things I Care About
  1. Koalas in tubs of water
  2. Blingee.com
  3. Variations on the picture of the groundhog
  4. Lunch time
Groundhog Day
Myspace Glitter Graphics

by: DJGroovySlug at February 06, 2009 11:33 | link | comments (2)

Friday, 30 January 2009

On Cupcakes and DC

Since I deleted my other mini-blog, I now realize that I carried over this habit from when I did have it: I don't want to write here unless I have something substantial to say about myself.  Well hell, it'll be a year before that happens. I never have anything substantial to say and certainly nothing of import.  So let's get started.

I was debating getting a cupcake at the local cupcakery after lunch today (bear with me now) and was browsing the flavors online when I realized I didn't really want a cupcake, I wanted a cookie.  I love cupcakes but I haven't had an amazing chewy chocolate chip cookie in a while. 

Now, in case you didn't know, DC has exploded with cupcakes in the past two years (evidence here, among others) with cute little boutiques designed entirely to fulfill every cupcake fantasy you could possibly think of (well, almost every fantasy).  Lots of people poo-poohed the trend, which I didn't understand because what kind of puppy-murderer didn't like having a superfluous amont of cupcakes around? 

But now I'm starting to get it: these places have really lowered the bar for desserts.  By that I mean, was it really too hard to throw in brownies and scones too?  Couldn't have a couple varieties of cookies?  I see four employees standing around in white gloves waiting to hand me perfectly frosted cupcakes and none of these people can be trained to whip together an eclair? 

I've recently gotten into martinis and I like getting them in various locations in the city but the great thing about bars is: when I get tired of martinis, I can ask them to make me something else.  But these cupcakeries will do nothing for me when I have the sudden hankering for a chocolate chip cookie or anything else, and for that reason they are totally useless.  Why are we settling for one really really good thing when we should be demanding a lot of really really good things?

Remember: this is the New America now.  Give me a real patisserie, DC, and I don't mean a bakery, like Harris Teeter means bakery, or that awful Furin's which makes its frosting from cyanide.  I want a bonafide dessert place, which treats its brownies with as much reverence as its cupcakes and cake slices and tarts and mousse.  Make this happen for me and then we can really say that Change has come to America.  Or at least to DC which is all that matters anyway.

Thank you, you're dismissed.
by: DJGroovySlug at January 30, 2009 13:49 | link | comments (1)