I had a fun weekend. It started out Friday with a happy hour with two friends at Oya. The restaurant has a reputation for great drinks and I learned it is well deserved. The drinks were amazing. Our bartender, Lorenzo, made us something he’s creating that tasted like raspberry sorbet. Delicious.
I had a slight agenda choosing the Oya lounge. Last week, a friend of mine, RA, organized a monthly happy hour at a hotel. He’s a server at Oya and the general manager, A, came to support him. He seemed like a nice guy – fitting the bill for someone whose work depends on relationships and had some nice words to say about me, but disappeared before I could ask for his number that night.
He was there Friday, but I wasn’t sure if he saw us and he seemed to quite busy, you know, working. Later on, myself and another friend had moved on to Halo and RA texted to say that A had just called him and asked if I’d been at Oya earlier. So, he saw me and followed up, so we’ll see where that goes.
Saturday night was pretty fun. I spent pretty much all day getting stuff for my costume – I went as “Dick in a Box”. It turned out to be a pretty common costume this year, but I pulled it off so much better. Big package, sunglasses, gold chain and I even grew out my facial hair. We started in Dupont at the crazy Nightmare on M Street thing, but soon decided that was too full of annoying college students and spent the rest of the night on 17th Street. I ran into FJ, a guy I met through FP over the summer when I was dating NK. We were pretty flirty, but at the time obviously nothing was going to happen. So, last night we exchanged numbers and plan to do dinner this week.
Today I pretty much lounged around the apartment all day doing life things – organizing my photos, figuring out which ones I want to print and hang in my room, downloading music. It was really nice to take a day to do something enjoyable. Best of all, I didn’t check my work e-mail until late tonight. That seems like such a lame accomplishment, but it was nice to avoid it.
