Last few days have been kinda crazy. First of all, I got TOTALLY reemed out by a police officer in DC last night. The Verizon center was letting out, so they had a bunch of the roads blocked, as usual. No problem, they usually do a good job in rerouting traffic. So I'm coming out of the parking garage and start going down the street, and see a cop with his motercycle up ahead. Now, at this point in the road there's an intersection with another road on one side, and my direction and oncoming traffic both have two lanes. And the motercycle is at an angle sort of overlapping the left line on my side and the next lane in incoming, right at that intersection. So to me, it looks like the cop is blocking the intersecting road. So I try going straight in my lane, which is completely open I'm going slow, no problem, and as soon as I get close this dude starts yelling at me, telling me to turn down the side street. I obviously then realize that I misinterpreted his badly aligned bike, and immediate apologize (my window is down) and turn on my signal to turn like he tells me. Well, he keeps yelling at me, saying things like "This is a police line! Right here!" And I'm all of two feet away from him. What the hell?! Christ.

My animosity increased when it took me two and a half hours to get home since there was an accident that apparently closed all THREE lanes of 66W - as well as both shoulders - and required all traffic leaving DC (keep in mind a huge game had just let out of the Verizon center) to bypass the accident by driving off the side of the road, into the grass and dirt, to pass.

Today I paid rediculous taxes on my car. Fuck you, government.

Moving on. I actually was finally able to get some sleep last night. Then today's work call was really good. It was just me and the LD, so that was kinda cool. Did a lot of different stuff, learned a few things. The call was at this college in DC for the deaf and blind, so that was kinda neat. One of the students came in and helped us. Kinda makes me wanna learn a bit more sign language. I was kinda lousy in foreign languages in school, but I had picked up signing pretty well back in elementary school. Who knows, maybe I'll have time eventually.

Tomorrow is gonna be killer, but the money will be nice. Two work calls - first is Beaucoup in the Park with Shakespeare Theatre, the second is at Alden. Both should be fun...