Are you still stuffed? Did you eat too much turkey and stuffing yesterday? Well prop yourself up on your sofa and check out what happened with my $10 on Day 326. I will keep it short to help you ward away the sleep inducing effects of all the tryptophan that is now in your body.
Elizabeth followed up via email, "You ended up being a great end to a day that didn't start off so well. Thank you."
Hockey season is once again upon us and I have gotten to go to a few games. My brother Ryan has season tickets to the Capitals and is very generous in inviting me to go with him. It was a Sunday and we met up at my apartment in Dupont. We hopped on the 42 bus and headed down toward the arena. I thought I would try to find someone on the bus that would accept my $10 and found Elizabeth sitting in front of us.
A Bilingual Benefits Coordinator at a local health clinic, Elizabeth was on her way to see The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, the third in the Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson. I haven’t read any of the books or seen any of the movies. In fact I didn’t even know that this one was part of the whole Girl with the Dragon Tattoo thing.
Anyway I gave her the $10 and got my notebook out to ask her some questions. “I’m not very interesting,” she told me. I hear that a lot, but just like with Elizabeth I usually uncover plenty of interesting sides of their lives.
It turns out Elizabeth’s “uninteresting” life includes a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in southern Ecuador. That sounds like a pretty amazing experience. My sister-in-law was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kiribati, an island nation located along the equator in the Pacific Ocean. I’ve heard mixed reviews about the Peace Corps program however almost everyone raves about the people they meet and overall life experience gained.
photo: Reed
The bus groaned a little as we motored down Connecticut Avenue. We had an easy conversation during the 25 blocks it took to get to our stop. Elizabeth had a lot of questions for me too. She said she was going to put the money in her wallet and see what happened to it. I later found out in an email from her that she was going to use it to go to get some drinks at the Bottom Line on Friday when they feature $1 Miller Lites from 4-7pm. That’s pretty cheap…especially for DC! But it must have been burning a hole in her pocket because it only made it to Tuesday where it went toward happy hour.
As for the hockey game, the Caps edged out the Flyers in overtime. The Capitals have a pretty awesome record when I am in attendance!
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