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Haha strong.. I also know verc twitter but I figure he doesn't want anymore to do with us than he already does.. Grumble grumble grumble
 
TBreazy said:
Haha strong.. I also know verc twitter but I figure he doesn't want anymore to do with us than he already does.. Grumble grumble grumble
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I have twitter; I just use it as a 100 percent incoming news feed. I never post anything, so I think I have about five followers, all of whom are real-life friends of mine who never tweet anything either.
 
Looks like I actually have 39 followers! Five or six real friends, a whole bunch of presumably spam bots -- and somehow, Waffle House. Not sure how that happened.
 
Vercingetorix said:
Mrs Verc and I spent two years in the DC area right after we got married. Granted this was 20 years ago, but I've been back many times and it doesn't seem like much has changed. I really enjoyed living up there -- it seemed like everybody you'd sit next to in the bars had something interesting to say. Everyone was coming from somewhere else, or going somewhere else, or doing something interesting -- I mean, I like to sit in bars and talk to strangers and DC was a great place for it. There's a lot to do, most of which is free (which was great for us right out of college). The area is reasonably affordable as long as you're not trying to buy a house.

We lived in northern Virginia, which worked out great. We were in walking distance to a Metro stop and a very short drive to Old Town Alexandria, which is full of bars and restaurants. I was in grad school at American University for a year, which I didn't particularly love, but that was more my program than anything. We met a lot of people from everywhere, some of whom are still our friends; it was a great place to spend a couple of years in our early 20s. Recommended.
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American School of International Studies is one of the Programs I am looking at actually. What were you in?
 
Archer said:
American School of International Studies is one of the Programs I am looking at actually. What were you in?
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I was in their political science program, for no good reason that I remember. I dropped out after a year because I didn't like the fact that just about everybody else in the program was a Hill rat, so all the lectures ended up being endless boring dick-waving contests about who was interning for whom, and who got to go to what committee meetings, and blah blah blah. So I quit and went to work instead.
 
Vercingetorix said:
I was in their political science program, for no good reason that I remember. I dropped out after a year because I didn't like the fact that just about everybody else in the program was a Hill rat, so all the lectures ended up being endless boring dick-waving contests about who was interning for whom, and who got to go to what committee meetings, and blah blah blah. So I quit and went to work instead.
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A friend of mine, and former roommate at UT, worked for a union in DC and lived around the Hill. I'd meet up with him and his roommate who worked for some Senator a lot and always end the night at some bar near their house that was just wall to wall Hill rats, it was so fscking annoying. Only thing worse than one of those ashholes is one of those ashholes with a fair amount of alcohol in them.

Silver lining though, the chicks were easy as hell. Although I know that wouldn't have helped you very much since you were already married to Mrs. Verc.
 
NochNoch said:
A friend of mine, and former roommate at UT, worked for a union in DC and lived around the Hill. I'd meet up with him and his roommate who worked for some Senator a lot and always end the night at some bar near their house that was just wall to wall Hill rats, it was so fscking annoying. Only thing worse than one of those ashholes is one of those ashholes with a fair amount of alcohol in them.

Silver lining though, the chicks were easy as hell. Although I know that wouldn't have helped you very much since you were already married to Mrs. Verc.
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I have to admit that moving up there immediately after graduating from UT and getting married made me seriously question whether I'd done the right thing by marrying my college girlfriend so young. Especially once Mrs Verc took a job where she started traveling ~75% of the time. I had some regrets.
 
Vercingetorix said:
I have to admit that moving up there immediately after graduating from UT and getting married made me seriously question whether I'd done the right thing by marrying my college girlfriend so young. Especially once Mrs Verc took a job where she started traveling ~75% of the time. I had some regrets.
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I was up there at the exact same point in life but most definitely without the wife or girlfriend. DC was very kind to me for a year and half or so.
 
Vercingetorix said:
I was in their political science program, for no good reason that I remember. I dropped out after a year because I didn't like the fact that just about everybody else in the program was a Hill rat, so all the lectures ended up being endless boring dick-waving contests about who was interning for whom, and who got to go to what committee meetings, and blah blah blah. So I quit and went to work instead.
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Yeah, I figured that would be the majority of the crowd in the majority of the grad schools. Hopefully studying international studies will keep me away from a lot of the hill rats and what not.
 
NochNoch said:
I was up there at the exact same point in life but most definitely without the wife or girlfriend. DC was very kind to me for a year and half or so.
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Happily it turned out that I'd done the right thing after all. Mrs Verc turned out to be awesome. It would have been nice to spend two years banging those friendly DC chicks, but not worth letting some other dude find and marry Mrs Verc instead.
 
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