There seem to be a lot of people from my office living in Silver Spring. Sometimes we get together for dinner or a happy hour. Last night we went to McGinty's Pub in downtown Silver Spring for Trivia Night. There were 16 teams (frankly I think there should be a limit of 10!). We had six rounds: a general trivia; match the political man with the woman he had an affair with/sexually harassed; a music round; a numbers round (all of the answers were numbers), a round with "cold" clues; and a ID the photos round.
In the end, we were second place winning a gift certificate of $25!! We also won two Bass Ale beer glasses because of 1) a drawing of a person running away from Mt. Vesuvius (one of the answers was Pompeii) and 2) creating the winning limerick (the question was what is the number of lines in a limerick). All in all, we feel fairly superior!! Though there were a couple of standouts on our team, without whom we would have placed somewhere in the teens!!
Good times had by all!
Jane
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
President's Day Weekend
Hi all,
It's been a while, so just a short update. This weekend the Strachan women (Mom, Sarah, Molly and I) got together for a few days. Molly's in from Tanzania for a conference and Sarah and Mom came down to stay. Needless to say 4 people in a 1 br+ loft was a little tight, but we made it work. We did some walking, a visit to the botanical gardends, some good food, and a little shopping at some of the more arty stores by my place.
Sarah took Lily running on Sunday as I was biking that day. Poor Lily. She's not used to running so far or so fast (I'm slow and lazy compared to my sister). For the rest of the day she could barely walk. Poor thing. She seems to be doing ok now after another little walk and a visit to the dog park this a.m. But still, it was pathetic. She wouldn't leave the front door to go out side Sunday night!
Other than that, things are truckin along here. I'm still working on Darfur for OFDA and hoping to switch to another team--but that probably won't happen for another month. So, in the meantime I'm keeping myself busy with the Pandemic Influenza working group--kind of freaky!!
Well--that's it for now!!
Jane
It's been a while, so just a short update. This weekend the Strachan women (Mom, Sarah, Molly and I) got together for a few days. Molly's in from Tanzania for a conference and Sarah and Mom came down to stay. Needless to say 4 people in a 1 br+ loft was a little tight, but we made it work. We did some walking, a visit to the botanical gardends, some good food, and a little shopping at some of the more arty stores by my place.
Sarah took Lily running on Sunday as I was biking that day. Poor Lily. She's not used to running so far or so fast (I'm slow and lazy compared to my sister). For the rest of the day she could barely walk. Poor thing. She seems to be doing ok now after another little walk and a visit to the dog park this a.m. But still, it was pathetic. She wouldn't leave the front door to go out side Sunday night!
Other than that, things are truckin along here. I'm still working on Darfur for OFDA and hoping to switch to another team--but that probably won't happen for another month. So, in the meantime I'm keeping myself busy with the Pandemic Influenza working group--kind of freaky!!
Well--that's it for now!!
Jane
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Sudan team is cursed and why I love AAA!
So on Sunday my car broke down--randomly--on Interstate 95 between DC and Baltimore. I called my mom's house and my step-dad promptly agreed to come rescue me and Lily from the side of the highway! Then I called AAA. Despite the frustrating wait time while she called around to see if people were open, they were super helpful and it only took about 20 minutes from when we hung up for the tow truck driver to arrive. I had it towed to the place where I bought it, north of Balitmore, near my mom's and will now hand over about $700 for repairs. So brutal. I mean, seriously, some small child probably made that part for $3 in Taiwan. Urgh.
But after towing and transfering the birthday quiche and cheesecake from my car to my step-dads, all was well. A mere two hours that I'll never get back, but at least I'm healthy right?!?!
Then I got to work and found out that my colleague had been evauted from Chad and my other colleague had her purse stolen with everythign in it--planner, check book, house keys, wallet, etc. Blugh. That would suck. And lastly--someone else on my team has pink eye. Seriously?? I've got to transfer off of this bad boy!!
Hope you're all well,
Jane
But after towing and transfering the birthday quiche and cheesecake from my car to my step-dads, all was well. A mere two hours that I'll never get back, but at least I'm healthy right?!?!
Then I got to work and found out that my colleague had been evauted from Chad and my other colleague had her purse stolen with everythign in it--planner, check book, house keys, wallet, etc. Blugh. That would suck. And lastly--someone else on my team has pink eye. Seriously?? I've got to transfer off of this bad boy!!
Hope you're all well,
Jane
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