a couple of upcoming events:

thursday, september 16th, 7-10pm, DCist is going to have a launch party at reef in adam's morgan, and you are all invited. it's not a hip exclusive thing - it's not like we have the place to ourselves, it's just kind of going to go on. i'm betting it will turn out more like a big happy hour. i think it'll be really fun, and i'm going to bring my digital camera and maybe your mug will end up on the fabled pages of DCist. so come on out!

wednesday, september 22nd, time TBD, my coworker and i are hosting a fundraising happy hour with raffle prizes at front page in dupont. i think raffle tickets/cover charge will be $5, and all drinks are $2.75 (which is front page's normal happy hour specials, but those are still pretty awesome prices). you should definitely come to this, as i have about $700 left to raise in one month. eek. ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVENT DONATED YET, MOFO.

la la la...i'm going on a six mile run on the mall tonight, so if you see a girl in black running shorts and a gray tank top dry heaving by the WWII memorial, that'll be me! 20 miles comes on saturday, and i refuse to even think about that. anyway hopefully i'm staying in tonight and can finally put up the vabeach/ice orgy 2004 (TM) pictures from labor day weekend.

oh also, kriston and jeremy were kind enough to join me last night at the ipod party thing at saint-ex. it was fun, pretty low attendance though. best part of night: me putting dismemberment plan's "the city" on my playlist, and when the song came up on rotation, the bartender (not knowing we had selected the song) went into an absolute rant on how much he hates travis morrison. "he's famous in d.c., big fucking deal! d.c. is nothing! i've met him, he's a HUGE asshole, he's crazy! i hate him! terrible music! sounds like dave matthews band on dischord! he's got a LISP!!!" we really just didn't know how to respond. whatever. "the city" is an AWESOME song.