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You Know You're From the DC Metro Area When..."

You say you're from DC, but you actually live in VA or MD but are too embarrassed to say it.
Coke is always called coke. It's not soda or pop, or even soda pop. As in "Hey do you want a coke?" "Yes, what do you have?" "Sprite, root beer, Coke..."
You always got pissed when Fauquier County got out for snow, and you didn't.
"I got stuck behind a motorcade" is a common excuse for being late .
You have a few friends who don't know what their parents do...It's Top Secret government work.
We don't have southern accents, IT'S NOT THE SOUTH!!!!!
You consider Costco to be fun (and now you know that there's alot to choose from)
We get out of school for government closings
You never actually call "the Metro" a subway.
* you have eaten at Cali T, Cal Tor, or C T, but have no idea what California Tortilla is.

(Though I disagree... MONUMENTS ROCK!!!! HA! [to a certain extent].)
You know what's funner than Costco? Taking tours of DC and then acting superior because you know everything.

Finished Wyrd Sisters. Will have to start something else. It will either be Ender's Shadow or the sequel to Time and Again, since Nick is reading it. I started, but never finished, because it was rather boring. I bought it several years ago because it was on sale at the dollar store. And apparently he doesn't go back in time to kill Bismarck.. he goes back in time to kill Kaiser Wilhelm. Sorry, folks.

Rob and Nick and I have decided to sack some monastaries. Personally, I think sacking a brothel would have a much better payoff.

Nick S looks like Harry Potter with his new haircut. Not a new observation, since I made it on Monday, but I felt I'd note it on this blog.

This is a hilarious Onion article. The thing is that it's so true.

Ever since watching Moulin Rouge, I've been walking around singing, "THE HILLS ARE ALLLIIIIIVEEEE.." Well, it's not like Ewan McGregor (say it with a Scoottish accent! Say it! "Ewan MicGregah!") can sing. He sort of shouts-sings. He shings. "THE HILLS ARE ALLIIIIVEEEEEEEEE....!"

Stole two brand spanking new LotR bookmarks. Er. Acquired. With permission. But according to Ayn Rand, since I didn't pay for them, I stoles them.

The previous Magellan quote was on a t-shirt for sale at The Darwin Awards. I want it. But I seem to want everything.

Mr. Thomas: And on Friday, we're going to be doing maps of Africa, so bring your colored pencils..
Me: Colored pencils... *snicker*..

God, you know History class is going rancid when you have to make yourself laugh. And it wasn't even a good joke either. Just to give you an idea of how boring history is, our last quarter was spent covering "Europe from 1831-1877" or something. Jeebus.

"The wretching of the soul." -Me

Wow, that sounded quite angsty. But you do know what I mean.

"The Church says the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round. For I have seen the Shadow on the Moon, and have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church." -Magellan.

Just read the article in Newsweek about the 18 year old Palestinian girl who suicide-bombed and killed a 17 year old Israeli girl. I want to wretch. But not physically.. I wish there were a word for it... I guess it's the wretching of the soul..

I don't understand, because they both had futures... the girl who killed herself was engaged to be married this summer, and was going to go into a journalism college.. and the girl who was killed had just found a new appreciation for her heritage over the summer after years of hating living in Israel... I don't know.