last night's happy hour raffle fundraiser was, by all accounts, a smashing success. people were drunk, lengths and lengths of raffle tickets were bought, prizes were handed out in a rather haphazard manner (with several people who had bought scores and scores of tickets winning multiple prizes, which kind of sucks, but eh, they did buy an awful lot). and...with almost $800 being made! it totally surpassed my expectations. billions of thanks to everyone who came out, including susan, kyle and his friend steven, charles and tommy (who together bought like 150 tickets or something), naomi, julie, becca and mike from DCist, tracey, jen kuo, teresa...oh jeez...and whoever else i'm forgetting. i'm sorry. you saw how spastic i was last night. i can't remember anything.

and then i arrived at work this morning to a donation from the lovely johanna gray, charles' younger sister (i swear to god i think the gray family has given me like $200 total), and with everything totaled i have...$1985!!! the long nightmare is almost over! (i just have to, you know, run 26 miles.) anyone want to kick in the last $15?

anyway: to everyone who has donated and is reading this and doesn't live within me-thanking-you-in-person-distance, please email me your addresses, because i want to send you thank you cards.

HOO FUCKING RAH.