edg | Odds and ends

79-year-old Claudia Johnsen is holding an essay contest to determine the distribution of five valuable properties - an apartment condominium in Alexandria, a townhouse condominium in the Watergate, a country home near Dunn's Gap, 1/3 share of the Oxon Park Apartments, and about 124 acres of undeveloped, wooded, waterfront property on the Potomac. Seriously. All you have to do is write an essay, in 75 words or fewer, explaining why you want the property, and submit the $100 entry fee, and you could own one of these properties - you do get to choose which property you want, although you have to submit a separate essay for each property - within the next year. Get your entries in soon, though; the state of Virginia only allows a certain number of entries per contest. (Yes, these properties are all in northern Virginia and suburban Maryland.)

I had the High School dream last night - not only was I naked (save my bathrobe), but I hadn't graduated because I'd forgotten to finish a test (in Russian, a language which I've never studied - although the Cyrillic alphabet somehow mutated into a combination of hiragana and Greek characters), and after I did that, I couldn't remember which class I had next. Oddly, Ian J. made a cameo appearance.

Having forgotten to take my daily 15 mg of Lexapro today, I'm in something of a low mood. Hopefully this will be rectified when I go home.

Having managed to get to work at 5:15 this morning, it looks like I have a long and hopefully-productive afternoon ahead of me.

So, all in all, a positive morning so far.

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