Lots of Monkeys

I was on the orange line and some young women boarded. They were loud and talking about hopefully catching their friend at Rosslyn Station. The chatter continued and when we finally arrived, the doors opened, they yelled for them and fortunately their friend was right there at the door.

“That’s a relief.” I comment. “It would have sucked if you guys missed each other.”

“Yeah, especially with the trains running every twenty minutes.” We chat for a while, talking about nothing in particular. They work downtown, like mostly everyone in the District.  Continue reading →

So I managed to avoid most of the sensationalist media hype surrounding the movie. Honestly it just wasn’t my kind of movie, I wouldn’t have gone out to see it in the theater.

Now I find out it has made $31 million via digital distribution.

It is remarkable that Sony had to be forced “forced” by a group of hackers to go this route. This just shows that it is possible to be making money from a digitally distributed film, as opposed to traditional physical releases.

Now if they’d only try it with a movie that I wanted to watch.

No matter how many bags of clothes I donate, laundry always feels like an overwhelming and inconvenient chore.

It is work, even though the machines do most of it. All I have to do is lug dirty laundry up and down and elevator.

And yet…

Had a wonderful evening with:
Anne
Dani
Dwight
Kristen
Maureen
Meredith
Peter
Susan