Deaf Rhodes Scholars, Where?
So my sister Liz’s figured out how to swing her first-born privilege and use my blogging rights as her oratory platform. A quick bio on her: a three-year D.C. resident, she’s putting her new master’s from American University to good use by working as Gallaudet University’s Capital Campaign Specialist. Ever wonder who’s raising the ten [...]
New York City Subway
Date: 11/27/2005 Location: 4/5 toward Grand Central Station. Yes, you read that right. Today, my topic is not about Washington DC’s beloved (or not so beloved) Metro system. Instead, I will be writing about it’s wrinkled older brother—the New York City Subway. The folks in New York City opened their subway system in 1904. Back [...]
Fear The Coming Non-Storm
Be it far from me to ignore weather warnings; heeding them is often a good idea. For example, the warning last night read: National Weather issued a Winter Storm Watch until Tuesday morning, beginning late today. Expected 3 to 4 inches of snow with winds 10-15 MPH, starting out light to moderate before ending. Temperatures [...]
Deaf-Run KFC in Cairo, Egypt
The Quietest KFC In Cairo by Geoff Bendeck, The GW Hatchet Online, Nov. 21, 2005 The first thing that goes through your head when you walk into the KFC in my neighborhood Dokki is not how long it will take for the food to give you a heart attack. The first thing you really realize [...]
World Largo War (The Day the Bag Was Lost)
Date: 11/14/2005 Location: Blue Line, toward Largo Town Center. Have you ever lost a backpack? More specifically, have you ever left someone else’s backpack on the Metro train, walked through the turnstiles, scooted up the escalator, and breathed the night air only to realize that your back feels a little bit light. The kind of [...]
Adventures in Busland
Date: 10/20/2005 Location: L2 Bus, Toward Adams Morgan. I had my monthly book club meeting today. However, like the idiot that I am, I did not “plan ahead” and wear appropriate shoes for walking semi-long distances. The meeting was being held at Tryst in Adams Morgan. This is where my journey in bus hell begins. [...]
Let’s Honor Communist Victims!
D.C. is a city full of memorials. Bursting with them, actually. They are so numerous they spill across the Potomac into Virginia. And across Western/Eastern/Southern Aves into Maryland, too. These memorials are also quite nice to visit on a warm day, and being a history freak, I always learn something new at each memorial. I’ve [...]
To Sit or Not To Sit?
Date: 10/17/2005 Location: Orange Line, toward New Carollton. Alright, after a long day of work (which, for me, entails in working with Mac OS X, Adobe, and various IT functions) I’m galumphing down to the Metro. I join the long ranks of soulless Metro travellers, in their dim browns, greys, and blacks. Nary a bright [...]
L’Shana Tova
So today is Rosh Ha’Shanah, the Jewish New Year. Yes, I used the fancy spelling. One advantage of being a Jew in America is that you get extra holidays, and Rosh Ha’Shanah is no exception. However, there’s a certain twisted sense of joy and doom that accompanies the fall High Holidays. Unlike the secular New [...]
On Indecision
Date: 10/1/2005 Location: Crazy Line, toward Sanity. Indecision strikes me down Surrounded by its whispering blow I know not which to go, That of the above or below You may say, just decide. Certainty is danger Direction is paradise Leave me by the side Consummation, action Walking forward Certainty and Direction By my side, forever.