Here I go, running on virtually no sleep again. I caught two flights this week and they both took off around 5AM so I’ve been able to squeeze in two, three hours of sleep at the most on the following nights. I’m left too brain-dead to read, play Rubix and probably too brain-dead to blog but I wanna keep myself occupied.
I spent the last couple of days in Alexandria, VA. My first-ever boyfriend once lived here. He’s married now and has a couple of kids. He’s still living in Virginia, but maybe an hour and a half away. We’ve kept touch over so many years and so we tried to coordinate meeting up yesterday but I just had too much on my plate and we had to call it off. Bummed out about that.
Caught lunch around old town and had a bit of time to check out the George Washington Masonic Memorial. Didn’t know what to expect inside and I wouldn’t have normally done so with a building so intimidating but for some reason, I stepped out of comfort zone and just went for it. Grateful that I did. It was just a museum dedicated to George Washington. There was a magnificent bronze statue of him in the main hall that I was very happy to see. I learned yesterday that Alexandria was named after an existing city in Egypt and that the construction of Masonic Memorial was based off of drawings of a once-existing ancient lighthouse in Egypt’s Alexandria. Scale-wise it’s a lot smaller but practicality first, of course. Cool, right?
Have to say I love American food. Portions are a little too much but Christ, these guys have a lot of things that we don’t have much of back home, especially BBQ restaurants and creole restaurants. Been dying to try burnt ends but they’re always sold out by the end of the day. Missed out on them in Tampa too. Fuck, I gotta get around to it. It’s my American dream.
Also, I found these in the grocery store the other day.
Wonderful low-fat yogurt.