if you’re a regular in any other cities or just like to click on pictures of hotties, you can vote across 10 other cities…

females have a choice amongst some fabulous bond girl characters from the most recent jinx to a classic ms. galore. if you need a little help, a bond girl quiz will do the trick (btw, i’m domino from thunderball).

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You are Domino from Thunderball!You are dark and mysterious, always falling for the bad boys but you can’t help but wonder if there is a good, decent man out there somewhere waiting for you. You are a full on glamour girl, sophisticated and confident.

as summer’s hurricane weather begins to take its toll in the northeast, air travel is predicted to follow suit.

in this area, dulles airport got a jump start as the past few weeks have shown the security lines coming to screeching halt. it took me almost 90 minutes to get through security for a domestic flight. when i finally deboarded the people mover, gate attendees throughout the terminal were calling out destinations to see if ppl were stuck in line could still make their flight. the crew decided to delay my flight for 30 minutes because so many people were still stuck in the security lines. i don’t think they can keep make accommodations like that all the time.

i hate to say it’s just dulles, but i flew both out of chicago o’hare and los angeles this week…took less than 10 minutes to get through the line…doo do doo do doo…what’s wrong w/ this picture?

*asian pacific american heritage month! events throughout the month, including this weekend’s Pride & Heritage event at chaos

*jewish american month! just declared by the white house — and upgraded from a week to a whole month ;) does anyone know of any specific events?

ah spring is in the air and there are celebrations to be had…

i’m especially looking forward to next thursday’s showing of 3 needles, affectionately tagged “2005-Canada-Religious Drama/Social Problem Film” — featuring sandra oh, lucy liu and olympia dukakis. i am a bit wary of the fact the film features 5 languages…that’s a lot for whosever job it is to subtitle!

go outside today! count how many cherry blossom trees you see
take sometime to “wind-down” this evening
grab some melatonin
watch the caffeine late at night

good luck! i know i’ll need it tomorrow.

1) on saturday, while wandering through georgetown, a gentleman was singing loudly in foreign language and proceed to bow to each female he passed by. my friend thought he was singing in gaelic. the man had a wreath of flowers on this head and feet and a green plaid sweater. he was followed by an entourage of what looked like frat boys taking pictures and wondering what this dude was all about.

2) on monday, and at least once a month, there’s some sort of police check-point / road-block coming out of the dulles airport. i’m always headed in the other direction, but it looks like a speed trap and yet, i don’t think it is. are they performing random searches? but if they were, wouldn’t they seach vehicles on their way into dulles? is it to catch people who cheat the toll road? are the police there just super mean (i’ve gotten two tickets through there — grrrrrrr)?

ah march…a month of confusion for me. where do babies come from?

so you know you know someone w/ a costco membership and once a year, it’s worth making the brave trip to pentagon city or beltsville. but have you ever hung-out at costco on a lazy sunday afternoon? totally chill, where one can peruse the aisles casually for the 20 pack of tuna or underwear, a 3 gallon tub of the finest brie or brake fluid – - ha ha ha.

actually, on sundays it’s a total madhouse. people are scrambling to get their fill before the school week begins. everything becomes a dire need — gas, crab legs, commercial size aluminum foil and of course tanks of toilet paper.

what i don’t take enough advantage of is the classy costco cafe. i can sit, sip on a fruit smoothie (made mainly sugar & water) and enjoy a chicken bake (w/bacon) or a pizza bigger than my 17″ monitor in the serenity of plastic picnic tables and all the chopped onions or relish that i desire. or at least that’s what some people think. last sunday, as i was chowing down on a slab of pizza, i see a woman fill a plastic drinking cup to the brim with chopped onions out of the onion dispenser. if you’ve never seen the dispenser, it’s this crazy convenient container that you hand-crank and unlimited gobs of chopped onions come out. she then proceeded to put a lid on the cup and walk out w/ a cup full of onions.

wow, you think about it, and sure the condiments are complimentary, but are you suppose to take a cup full for consumption on the go? maybe she wanted an onion shake — stick a straw in the cup and instant gratification for that sharp biting taste of a white onion. or she was really hankering for an onion salad — stick a fork & dig in — she can chomp away on onions to her hearts content. the benefit-of-the-doubt thought is her family bought 20 hotdogs and she figured she’d get the condiments for everyone so they didn’t have to get up.

anyway, i know this isn’t the only case of condiment hoarding. dc bachelor’s most popular post in 2005 on how to get free starbucks lead me to starbucks gossip, where i read through screens and screens of things that customers try to swipe from the condiment bar. my favorite is the “poor man’s latte” where a customer makes their own iced latte using milk from the condiment bar. i admit, i’ve done something similar where i order a grande iced mocha, transfer the liquid into a venti cup and proceed to add a cupful of milk to top it off. my reasoning is more that the starbucks mochas have so much chocolate, it makes me choke, but rather than feeling gypped about paying for a full shot of chocolate by only asking for a half shot, i’d rather make up the difference w/ milk.

anyway, i’m not condoning the behavior, but many a condiment’s a condiment, and not meant to be a whole meal.

if you want to know the real story behind a geisha, catch tomorrow’s free screening of geisha: an artist’s journey. every week, natgeo follows up w/ a different aspect of geisha and japanese live, from actual geisha dance performances to life in modern japan.

february 28, 2006
geisha: an artist’s journey
performance artist shizumi manale returns to her native japan in search of the meaning of geisha in a modern world. introduced by filmmaker bryan reichhardt. (44 min.)

admission to tuesdays at noon is FREE–no tickets required!

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