Don't Waste Your Time

One Missed Call is still at 0%. Crikey.

Washington DC

I made it down here in one piece, yay, and rolled my suitcases for many blocks in the rain before I found my hostel, or Loftstel. It's beautiful! Apparently it was just constructed right after Christmas and we're like the first group of hostelers to use it.

Good things:

1. They make you take off your shoes when you come in. This sounds like a bad thing, but it enables them to have nice shiny hardwood floors AND beige soft carpeting in the bedrooms. Excellent. Much better than that nasty flat stained carpeting that most hostels have.
2. Free use of refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, stove, cookware, dishes, paper towels, cabinets, etc. Except you can't hog up the fridge with beverages because then there would be a space issue.
3. Free washer and dryers with complimentary laundry detergent and dryer sheets.
4. Free eyemasks and earplugs (for the pesky roommate).
5. Free wifi.
6. Free use of large TV + Wii that I haven't actually seen yet.
7. Two bathrooms on every floor that are really nice and clean.
8. Closet space with hangers in the bedrooms.
9. Personal locker space in the bedrooms.
10. Free phone with free long-distance. (Woo! Who am I going to call? I'll call everyone!)
11. Towels and linen are provided. Not just any linens - IKEA LINENS! I own this exact same duvet cover. Home away from home!
12. It's really cheap compared to an apartment.

Bad things (or not-so-great things):

1. It's kind of far from the Metro. But not crazy far. Like a ten minute walk.
2. I have to room with five people tonight.
3. I can't store my beverages in the fridge. Boy howdy, I do like beverages.
4. I don't have a job, and I need to pay the billz.


But I have an interview tomorrow and if that doesn't go well, then I will keep searching. Going to bed now to be fresh as a daisy.

To all those who were curious about where I stayed: it rhymes with Schmampton Schwinn.

Right On

When I saw the trailer for One Missed Call in theaters I was like, "oh, this is going to be the worst movie ever". I was very close to correct - Rotten Tomatoes currently lists it at a 0%. That's pretty bad. Criticism:

One Missed Call is so tedious that Alexander Graham Bell would have difficulty staying awake.

The deadliest call the cast and crew of One Missed Call ever received was the one from their agent telling them that this was the best work available.

Another demonstration of how certain studios and producers care neither about us nor the skill required to pull off a respectable work of garbage.

Ouch.

More Hotel

I don't even want to be on the internet now but I get COMPLIMENTARY WIFI so I must use use use. Rob and I stayed up most of the night chatting like schoolgirls so I only got about three hours of sleep. I'm feeling okay now but later on today I may crack under pressure and take a nap. He's still asleep, that lazy boy. I was already downstairs for the COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST. I wasn't even hungry! Bad news: there was no breakfast attendant to greet me in a cheery manner and the pantry door was propped open! Oh, dear! I had a biscuit and a muffin and some orange juice and it was decent. I've had better.

We also got a COMPLIMENTARY USA TODAY which I am going to read even though I don't really feel like reading a newspaper now. It's free, man! Also I'm going to take home these incredibly cute shampoo bottles. One of my 'challenges' was to make a special request to the lobby so I called at 1:54 in the morning and was like, um can I have more shampoo? I didn't even need more shampoo! It was all a ruse! But I pulled it off with aplomb and within a couple of minutes this wizened-looking old guy showed up at our door with his hands full of six mini bottles of shampoo. Woo! I just went outside to see if I could gank any more off the cleaning lady's cart but they're not on this floor yet. Oh, I have to go check the exercise room anyway, so I can scope out the second floor. Adios...

Mystery Shopper

So I signed up to do a Secret Shopper report on one of the Pittsburgh hotels. Where am I? It's a mystery! But it's super swank and super free, so that's awesome. I have had no complaints so far except that my check-in attendant was chewing her gum like there was no tomorrow.

Now I have to critique the showers. Ta for now.

Lava Lamp

I'm posting some pictures I took of Alex's lava lamp on New Year's Eve since no one doesn't love a lava lamp. Here are some of the various stages of oozy globularity:

It wasn't really warmed up yet.








The rest all pretty much look the same but there was a time lapse here.

Congratulations on Your New Blog, Erin

Anyone who reads this blog in the faint hope that I mention Erin is having a lucky day - she started her own, called "be more pacific" and of course I love the name. Topics include finding a grocery store, yellow PT Cruisers, and crazy bible-wielding airport men. Also, she shows some skin, ow ow.

And if your new job doesn't work out, Saturn is hiring a receptionist, detailer, and car washer. Just keep that in mind.