It was a pretty good weekend, if you consider shopping for furniture fun. At least I got to get drunk with THE MARINE one more time before he ships out to his next duty station.

We saw Pirates Friday night with all the other lemmings in NOVA. It was good, but damn $138 million?!?!? That’s un-fuckin’-real. I wonder how much less it would have done if it happened to have a real plot? It was leaping a tall building better than Superman.

I got one of those chain e-mails about how to tell if you live in NOVA over the weekend. It took up damn near three pages single spaced. The 20 or so that actually applied AND were sort of cute/funny are after the jump.

You Know You’re From Northern Virginia If…

  • You constantly complain about there being nothing to do, even though you are right next to DC
  • You have at least 2 friends who have no idea what their parents do because its “top secret” government work
  • 50% of your senior class plans on going either to Mason, JMU, Tech or UVA
  • When people ask where you’re from, you tell them DC because its easier to explain
  • It takes you 30 minutes to drive 10 miles
  • Your local news is national news
  • If you hear the word “sniper” one more time you’re going to slap someone
  • Despite the fact that Virginia fought for the south in the Civil War, you are NOT, under ANY circumstances, a “southerner”
  • The cars in the student parking lot are worth 3x those in the teacher parking lot.
  • You are amused by visiting relatives who are actually excited to see Washington DC
  • You are amazed when you go out of town and the people at McDonald’s speak English
  • You call things “ghetto” even though in most of the rest of the country it’d be high class
  • When you were driving on the beltway at 2:13am on a Tuesday there was still traffic
  • Subway is a fast food place. The transportation system is known as Metro, and only Metro
  • Rush hour lasts all day
  • For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa
  • Helicopters and airplanes flying above your neighborhood is a normal occurance.
  • 9:30 isnt just a time, its a place.
  • You have to dial the area code to call your neighbor
  • You refer to distances in minutes, not miles.
  • Talking on Metro in the morning is prohibited