One year anniversary, crazy Korean parents, and a new favorite bar/lounge

Wow. Summer has come and gone. So long to lounging in the garden while listening to jazz, tanning by the pool, walking in my flip flops, and picking ripe delicious tomatoes at the farmer's market. Time to bust out my fall boots, walk along the memorials at night, relish those evenings outside along Conn Ave, and welcome all the students back to DC.

Boston seems far away but DC gots its own charms. The November elections are right around the corner and so fliers are everywhere, candidates are stomping their way across the states, Congress is back in session, and there are less tourists clogging the metro elevators. I hate it when they do that. Everyone knows that its a universal rule that people stand to the right and let others pass on your left... sheesh!

I've had the priviledge of hosting various friends from out-of-town and overseas: Cheryl, April, Eugene, Ellen, and Sarah. They got to see me in all my yuppie glory :) But the mother of all out-of-town guests are coming in October.....my parents! I am so excited to see them and host them around the DC metro area. But at the same time worried that they will buy a full page ad in the local Korean newspaper and pimp me out to anyone... who's Korean and holds a college degree. Seriously. They are capable of much worse. Oh, the stories I could tell...

Yesterday, I went out to 18th street lounge for the first time and I can't believe that I hadn't discovered it before. Very cool, a lot of fun, great mixed international crowd - definitely going back there. Bumped into a couple of K-school people and the Canadian guy I went sailing with in Annapolis. Didn't dance on top of tables that night, but still had a great time.

Looking forward to my friend's wedding in NYC in September - my first black-tie wedding. I can deal with the penguin suits, the heels, the intellectual discourse chit chat, but there better be some hip hop playing at the reception to make my heels and dress worth the pain.