This Time Tomorrow...

So. It has been a long winter. But DC is gorgeous now. It's sunny and 72. DC has this beautiful crisp season of spring for about two weeks before the sticky, humid summer sets in and this is truly it. The cherry blossoms are blooming:

So that has me in a good mood but I'm also so excited about the NBA playoffs. This year looks set to be one of the best playoffs of my entire life. Every single opening round playoff series in the west has riveting big stars. The Spurs won 17 of their last 18 and are THE 6 SEED. And the 'weak east' has the historically good Spurs East (Hawks) and a juggernaut in Cleveland with the best player in the NBA and also a rejuvenated LBJ.  It's all gonna be amazing. It's the best time of the year. (Predictions: Spurs over Warriors in the west, Cavs over Hawks, finals goes Spurs repeat if they are still healthy and Cavs if not.)

My favorite TV series of the last few years just wrapped up. Justified was a great ride and I was team Boyd all the way. I'm working on a fan fiction alternative ending where Ava shot him just to get away from Raylan and they are reunited and run off Bonnie and Clyde style. I'm just a romantic.

Speaking of romance, the new season of Louie is already incredible and Pamela's description of life a la carte has me optimistic about the state of the human race for the first time in decades.

But tomorrow I'm going to New Delhi. New trip for a new job. I was offered a truly wonderful opportunity at one of the coolest companies I'ver ever heard of and I'll be joining Dimagi, a Cambridge based social enterprise that delivers open and innovative technology to help underserved communities everywhere. They're best known for CommCare a truly revolutionary mHealth platform. So I'll be moving to Cambridge and spending some time traveling to their projects and offices around the world. I'm so excited to see New Dehli and meet some members of my team and dive right in to some exciting work where I can leverage my technology delivery experience from the Accenture days. Check back in this space for photos and experiences from my first trip to India soon.

I'll miss my friends (and still believe in the mission) at GlobalGiving. (Thanks to them for the fun send off!) Dimagi is in the same universe and I expect I'll still cross paths with folks from that organization. It's a busy time and I'll keep you posted.

Relo: Party like its 1789

So,  it has been a while. I moved.  I live on Capitol Hill in DC now.   It's weird to be back in a city I lived in when I went to Georgetown.  I think I saw the whole city pretty differently then.  DC isn't my favorite place in the whole world but it is doing it's best to change my mind.

Capitol Hill is actually pretty rad.  I have been running around the sand path on the Mall at night.  That's fun. This is me on the way home at the 4 mile point.  Despite the look on my face I didn't pass out right after I took this:

Last weekend was Fools.  You know it was pretty foolish. It was nice after the games to drive home for 1 hour not 3 or 6.  Check out the classy poster Taliesin made for us.  Here's me and Jen repping our old school Ambush hats:

I had a blast. (We played pretty well and had the most fun.) Taco Forever.

Tonight I played in a WAFC women's spring league.  It was super fun.  The Washington ultimate community has their act together in a way that NYC has never quite pulled of for whatever reason.  It was fun doing drills and playing women's.  They have 85 women out playing spring league.  Look out.

In a non-DC note I'll just take a moment here to brag that I won my NCAA pool again this year.  I am already breaking down next years teams in preparation for my 3-peat.

Next up: coed spring league this weekend and researching the availability of chairs on freecycle.

If anyone out there has any tips for how to get that Carly Rae Jepsen song out of my head please speak up! (Warning: do not click that link unless you want the song in your head forever.)