This weekend I had my interview with the NAIP (the job I want) and when I wasn’t rocking my interview I was hanging out with some people up here. Thursday night (my arrival night) Brian, Andy and I went out to the Crystal City Sports Bar. I’m about 90% sure that I had been there before (oddly enough, 1 year ago almost exactly). Last october Spencer, Clint and I went to an Advanced Naval Propulsion Symposium up here, and after it one night I think we went to that same bar (though I didn’t know that it was 3 floors, the place is huge!). We watched some football and had some food there. Missed the happy hour with Annie Sattler though.

Friday was the interview, so I took the metro and wound up being 1.5 hrs early (the metro is… efficient), though I did know in advance I’d be that early. After the interview, Brian, Andy, Amy (also up for an interview), Kara and myself met up at Jenny’s (my wife) for dinner, and then we went downtown (minus Jenny). Downtown we met up with Amanda, Annie Sattler, Larry and Brian (AE). We started off finding a bar called Ri Ra’s that was pretty nice ($5 cover) and it had a pretty good live band. But shortly after arriving a few of us left and we went to a bar called the Clarendon Ballroom ($10 cover, ouch). It had very expensive drinks, was a lot larger and also had a pretty good live band. It was more of a club then the bar that Ri Ra was… a lot of dancing going on.

Saturday Brian, Andy, Andy’s brother Dan, Amy, Kara and I went to a place in Ballston called Bailey’s Sports Pub. It has lots of TVs (all playing football) and the food was good too. Then we went and bought furniture for Andy and Brian’s apartment from the Ikea in College Park, assembled it, and watched football the rest of the night.

It’s great how the metro brings everything in the area into easy reach. I’d like to think of this weekend as a taste of what life will be like up here, and if it’s anything like this it’ll be great. I know a good amount of people up here, and even though I’ve never lived in one I think I’m a city boy at heart. So much to do around here.

Well i get to go home to blacksburg tomorrow, where I have to catch up on some work. I should hear back about the job within 30 days (though I’ve heard it’ll be sooner).

arlington…