Late nights, early mornings...

I'm not used to this kind of schedule. My typical day is up around 4am, at work by 5 or 5:30 (a nice 8 to 10 minute commute at that time in the morning), out by 3 (to get an extra hour of work in), afternoon workout, dinner and evening hobbies/chores/errands/leftover to-do's from last week (and the week before)/etc.
Visiting my SO where she lives and works, that schedule gets alllll turned around. Finally out the door by 7:30 or 8 for roughly an hour long commute in to town, MAYbe getting out by 5 or 6, don't think about dinner until 7, another hour gone to the commute back to the condo.
Last night I got to be the "spouse" at a very work related after-work wine & cheese social sponsored by her boss's boss, John M.. Now her boss is already fairly high in this organization, so this was interesting. Also interesting was the fact that it was still *work.* But I had a good time. It turns out both John and his wife are intensely interesting in Japanese culture and architecture. So much so that their house up in NY is half European style and half Japanese style. Now *that's* something *I* could get used to!

Another looooong day...

It's amazing to survive another day inside the beltway. And my job doesn't really exist up here. I live it vicariously through my partner's job where it *is* extremely fast paced and high stres...all the time. I'm slowly getting to experience various restaurants and watering holes that she's been introduced to over the last few years. This evening we enjoyed some quiet time some where over on 17th and F St.. Nice place but the dinners are a little bit on the steep side. We decided to return to the condo for dinner. Though the bus we were supposed to take never showed up (we stood about 1/2 hour in line before a substitute bus nicely showed up). It saved us from another ride on the Metro and a $7 taxi ride to get home.