Yesterday Adam and I traveled up to Philadelphia to help knock on some doors for the Barack Obama campaign. It was a short 2.5 hour trip to the “Brotherly City of Love”, I’ve never been to the city so I didn’t know how big it would be. It pretty much stacks up to Baltimore- but it has a nicer downtown.
This weekend was the last weekend to get people registered to vote so Adam and I walked around, knocked on doors, and got people registered. It was amazing to see people from all over coming to Philadelphia to help out. We met people from New York, Connecticut, and of course Washington DC and Virginia. The gal running things for the Obama campaign was an friend of Adam’sm another ex-staffer from Capital Hill. The neighborhoods we hit were pretty rough, I think it makes Fitchburg look like Montgomery County. A lot of people we talked to were already ardent Obama supporters, and some yelled at us for bothering them and slammed the door at our faces. One volunteer in our group interrupted a European
couple having sex, as he was met at the door by a woman followed by a naked man. All in all it was a really chill way to experience Philadelphia, we even got cheesesteaks at the Reading Terminal Market.
Earlier this week I decided to stay in for St. Patrick’s Day; this year it was on a Monday and personally I didn’t really want to go out so early in the week. Celebrating Caron Butler’s birthday last Thursday taught me how bad work can be the day after partying. However those plans didn’t hold up for long. LJ invited me out to Whitlow’s where I met his roommates, all of whom are really nice people.
Thursday LJ and I got to go to see WVU in the NCAA Tournament. As always I managed to score some tickets and we enjoyed watching the game in my company’s suite. We hit up Capital City Brewing before the game and we ran into Adam’s ex-girlfriend. At Capital City, we were joking how big the blowout would be in the Duke/Belmont game that was playing before the WVU game. However we were surprised to see a close game where Duke won it in the last seconds. A close game from Belmont kept all of us pumped- hoping to see Duke lose another early round game (they finally bowed out this weekend to WVU.)
Checking in on my brackets shows that I’m not having a great start in March Madness:
- The TMG Office Pool: Tied for 14th
- My Bracket O’ Doom on Facebook: Tied for 13th
- Amber’s Yahoo! Pool: 2nd place (take that Amber!)
- ESPN Tourney Challenge: 61413th place (but I’m in the 98.1 percentile!)
Georgetown just lost on TV, otherwise I can’t wait to plan some March Madness watching next weekend!
Two random notes to end on:
I really enjoy Indian brunch buffets on Sundays, I finally made some time to have brunch at Delhi Dhaba and it’s really not that bad!
I need to spend some more time with my friends in Montgomery County, at least we’ll have the beach in May.
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