Big Names Today

Today I went to an Alzheimer's Hearing in the Senate, where the senators present included Specter (James Bond not in attendance).

The witnesses who spoke included:

• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Maria Shriver
• Newt Gingrich
• Bob Kerry
• Some old dude

Because so many people were crammed in the room, I had to stand in the back and take notes. While I was taking notes, I noticed the woman in front of me was wearing a crown. Yes. A crown. I looked a bit closer and she was wearing a sash that said "Miss...." and I thought, "neat! it's Miss America!". But, then she turned around and the full sash said "Miss Sussex County".

Really? Sussex county? That gives you the right to waltz around the nation's capitol in a crown and sash? I don't think so.

Anywho, on the way back to the office walking through the tunnels underneath the Senate buildings, I passed right by none other than John Kerry. And let me tell you, that guy is gigantically tall at 6 feet, 4 1/2 inches. It was a neat experience to be able to walk right past a man who ran for President.

Funtime Trip to Richmond!

Not quite. On Monday I get to drive 2 hours down to Richmond and 2 hours back to get a physical at the VA center there as a condition of employment for my residency this coming July.

Not really sure why I couldn't go to Walter Reed, but it probably has to due with all the yellow fever-laden mosquitos in that area.

(there's a joke in this post somewhere, 10 points to anyone who gets it)

An email that was sent out yesterday

And I quote:

"RESF 15 NOTE THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

For the filming of a TV pilot, there will be a simulated explosion onWednesday, March 25 between 9:30 a.m. and noon near Key Bridge in theDistrict. The explosion will produce a 20 to 30' fireball that will last forapproximately 2 minutes.Please pass along this information to others appropriate. The Department ofHomeland Security and D.C. Police and Fire departments have been notified,along with the Washington Airports Authority. The Virginia State Patrol andArlington Police Department will be contacted.

The explosion will take place on the Potomac River just north of the KeyBridge and Jack's Boathouse (K / Water Street, NW under the WhitehurstFreeway). In the scene to be filmed, there will be six (6) sculling boats onthe Potomac River and one of them blows up.

CBS Paramount television is filming a pilot titled "Washington Field." Thisis a new television series about the elite Washington field office of theFBI and a team of agents with exceptional and diverse skills who are calledtogether for only the most critical cases."


.....sometimes it's neat to live in a place full of crazy people.

Residency Match Results

Howdy everyone!

Just wanted to drop a line and let you know I have been accepted as a pharmacy resident at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple, TX for next year.

Here's the facility's website: http://www.centraltexas.va.gov/

And here's a description of the town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple,_Texas

Chemists in the Wild West

I'm Old

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1162052/Old-age-begins-27--scientists-claim-new-research.html?ITO=1490

Some photos from the weekend have been put up on my photobucket account (link in previous posts). Included are pics from the ShamrockFest Rose and I went to on Saturday and a few pics of a crazy funky car I saw on my way walking to the Metro today.

Me and Gere!

Some new pictures:

• Abraham Lincoln's Repeating Rifle from the Museum of American History
• The Capitol Building
• The Washington Monument
• Pictures from afar of Richard Gere and Nancy Pelosi
• Pictures of Richard Gere and a musical artist called "Evolve" who is trying to get Gere to read a binder full of ideas for a peace walk thing
• A pic of me and Gere (well, a pic of Gere and a bunch of people that I stuck my fat head into)