Hopping around our nation's capital

So after a pretty stressful and mostly sleepless week, I took Friday off to accompany my friend to her company party in Washington DC.

So on Thursday night, I was able to rejuvenate myself by watching "Survivor" and seeing the evil white man, Jonathan, get kicked off! =)

I also got a full 7 hours of sleep that night, before making the 5-hour trek out to DC...

Last night's company party was actually a lot of fun and I think I'm starting to feel a bit more normal (although right now it's just after 10AM-- and I did go to sleep at 4, so I'm still not sleeping normally).

I think I might've hit a speedbump when one of my friend's coworkers from the DC office (she actually works in LA, but her company's based in DC) started to get very belligerent, after I mentioned that I have mixed feelings about the badness of cigarettes (considering that some smokers live till they're 90 and die from completely cigarette-unrelated causes, while some people-- like Dana Reeve-- get lung cancer without smoking at all, I just don't think they've been able to fully explain why cigarettes are bad). And I've seriously never seen a grown-up professional man become so angry and get so worked-up over an issue that he felt it necessary to a scene. At least my friend says it's nothing, though...

Anyway, the dancing was great. I had about 4 drinks (3 over my usual amount-- although spread out across an evening) and got a pretty good workout from bouncing around. (Monday and yesterday were the only days I missed the gym since last Friday...).

My friend's asleep now, so I think I'm gonna make a quick trip to the fitness center.

Time to run!! ;-)