I Heart DC

I’m back home in “the other Washington” now, having gotten up at 5am this morning to finish packing, get to the airport, and board my five and a half hour flight. 5am Eastern is, of course, 2am Pacific, so I expect I’ll have some odd sleeping patterns for the next couple of days. Since my brain is a little fried, I figured it might be a good time to do some simple tabulations for my summer in DC.

By the numbers:

• Weeks worked: 11
• Blog posts: 80
• Total times blog viewed: 4,200+
• Rivers forded: 1
• Mosquito bites: dozens
• Bottles of wine: a great many
• Dates: 6
• Illnesses: 1
• Money spent on metro fare: at least $200
• Liters of vodka infused: 1.75
• Ripe cherry tomatoes: around 20
• Ripe beefsteak tomatoes: around zero
• Cayenne peppers harvested: 20 and counting

Some qualitative highlights:

• Spending time with my superlative posse of friends
• Barbecuing (many occasions)
• The Legwarmers concert (pictured at right)
• Restaurant Week
• The kickass DJs at Saint Ex and Fly
• Spectating at a flipcup tournament
• Annie Hall on the Mall
• Trivia Nights at the Wonderland Ballroom
• June DC Blogger Happy Hour
• Playing four-square at 2am in Dupont Circle
• Wine tasting in Virginia
• Furtively reading Harry Potter on the metro in the wee hours of July 21; seeing many many others doing the same
• River tubing at Harper’s Ferry with 30+ friends, 150+ beers, and 100+ pieces of fried chicken
• Getting quoted in the Express blog log (scan forthcoming)
• Gardening, of course!

Lastly, just because it’s interesting to me, here are the top ten most popular posts in the life of this blog thus far:

• Casual Friday VIII (210 views)
• The Redemption of Harry Potter: Epilogue (176 views)
• I do? (164 views)
• Sex & the CDC (155 views)
• The Redemption of Harry Potter, Part 2 (126 views)
• Gentlemen Non-Callers (98 views)
• The Redemption of Harry Potter (90 view)
• Today’s Heroine: Danica McKellar (72 views)
• Casual Friday VII (64 views)
• Late to the Party: Mika (50 views)

Apparently the keys to getting traffic are LOLcats, Harry Potter, sex, dating, and celebrities. Not entirely surprising, I suppose.

I’ve only spent 15 months of my life in DC, but it has its claws in me like no other city. I think it’s safe to say I’ll be back. In the meantime, I will continue to blog about politics, feminism, and other unpopular topics – and the fun stuff, too.