wizards & wine.

FINALLY, some of our friendships are starting to "pay-off". ok, well, i'm only HALF joking...

one of stephen's old buddies from the booz allen days just moved back to the city after graduating from michigan law....and scored a job at one of the most prestigious law firms in dc. we got together with jeetander and his wife alicia (also a mich law alum) last summer while they were in town for internships - they are such a great, down-to-earth couple...not to mention brilliant. :P now that they are back for good, we had been meaning to reconnect, but they beat us to it! courtesy of winston & strawn, they invited us to a washington wizards game saturday night with some free box-seat tickets in their corporate suite!

we were thrilled!!!

not only have i never been to an nba game, let alone at the super sweet verizon center, but who gets the luxury of soaking up the action in plush seats with your own mini kitchen and personal bathroom! so after linking up for an early dinner at matchbox, enjoying a-mazing sliders, onion straws and a prosciutto white pizza pie (oh, i'm hooked), we skipped down 2 blocks in chinatown to take in the ball game in style. SO MUCH FUN!!! and fortunately, the wizards are pretty good this year; it's always more entertaining when the home team actually wins ;)

afterwards, we said our goodbyes (& many thanks!) and then rushed off to arlington to hit up my cube-mate's holiday party...toting our bottle of white merlot with us to compliment her wine-tasting theme. i always find it interesting to go to coworkers' parties - to see where they live, to meet their "outside of work" friends and to connect more on real-life terms (who cares about business process reengineering - NOT ME!). all this to say, we had such a blast. after catching up with the BPR team and meeting tangential accenture acquaintances, it was no surprise to find many of kathryn's college friends are close friends with our gracedc friends...with the connection being wake forest university.

it's been the running joke this past year that all the new friends stephen and i make hail from winston-salem and chant "go deacs" every chance they get. it seems like every other week i'm asking kathryn (who literally sits 12 inches from me...don't ask me how many times we bump chairs, ugh), if she knows so-and-so from WF. the answer is usually...i don't think so...but as we now know, the answer is different when you talk to her friends. in fact, her sorority sister, lindsay, knows HALF of our bible study from their wake days.

yep, it is a small world - at least in what i have repeatedly found in the dc/wfu circle. i would say it's probably close to the nyc/penn world i know i miss out on daily...yes, i'm actually jealous!