I revamped the link list. When I went to the Badger site to get the link I got up to do the Badger dance with the cartoon... it's SO addictive and quite a workout for the shoulders and thighs! OUCH!

OTPIP is getting a little attention

> Your blog is funny! I mean it. What an idea. Is your scale 1-10 and >
> at what point in the scale is it a no-go, in a manner of speaking.
>
> I run a little site, www.dcblogs.com, and I'll include a write-up and
> link to your site.
>
> Will this be a systematic search? -- extending into DC,
> Arlington, etc.?
>
>
> Cheers,
> KOB
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Thanks!

I should have started this a year ago, it would have been a much more
extensive list from all over D.C., Maryland, VA. I might go back and
review some of the more interesting toilets from memory. This summer I
will be traveling a lot so I will have locations from L.A. and Chicago
as well. There is no agenda as to what restroom I plan to review next.
These are actually places I have ended up when nature calls!

Thanks to your questions I just added a little explaination of the
grading system to my site.
1 = third world, cement hole in ground, unknown creature hissing from
thatched roof above (this really happened to me in the Dominican
Republic... AND I had my period at the time... worst bathroom story
EVER!)
10 = super posh, automatic everything, bathroom attendants, etc.

As far as the "no-go" is concerned... Well it's been a long time since
I have flat out refused to pee somewhere. I mean if there are choices
around and I happen in a gross-looking place I will hold it until a
better restroom comes along, but sometimes there are no other options
and you just have to hold your breath and hover. When you gotta go, you
gotta go!

For my readers I would say to seriously think twice before venturing
into anything lower than a 3.

I would love to be included on your site. Thanks so much for the
positive feedback!

-Megan
http://theplacesipeed.blogspot.com/

Who ARE these people?
Danni's Pics of Nancy's Wedding

I'm so glad I went to the wedding. I had a great time and it was so cool to hang out with the old school peeps. I mean I already see Danni and Matt sometimes and Keysha on a rare occaision but it was very cool to see everyone together. I have only hung out with Nancy like 3 times in the past 5 years, but when we got to the reception it felt just like old times. There were some classic Nancy moments that I will always cherish. I need to to a better job of keeping in touch with her. Of course I need to do a better job of keeping in touch with a lot of people.

It was really great to spend a few minutes with Joanne. I never really hung out with her in highschool. Now I really wish I had. I always thought of her as Nancy's cooler friend, I never really felt worthy. My main memories of Joanne are of her and Meghan in history class junior year teasing me about my relationship with my first boyfriend. It wasn't bad teasing, more like a running joke about how strange it was that he hadn't kissed me yet... the joke lasted several months. I never knew how wise they were until a few years later when he came out of the closet.

This weekend reminded me of a lot of people who were on the edge of being friends that I really should have made more of an effort with. There are hundreds of people I have met in the past 28 years that I remember fondly and wonder about. If you're reading this... hey guys! Drop me an email, or look me up on Myspace or Thefacebook or something, whatever. It would be nice to hear from you.

Welcome to todays procrastination. Right now I am going to make myself late for the wedding of my best friend from High School. I hate weddings. First of all I believe I am inherently incapable of getting married myself. Thus I am bitter. Secondly I will see people I haven't seen since 50 lbs ago. eww. no fun. When you lose weight people always say something. And it is considered a compliment. Nobody knows if it was because you worked hard, ate right, and exercised, or if you made yourself vomit 3 times a day, or if its from your newfound love of heroine or coke, or you're on chemo. They don't care why! Losing weight is a positive thing! Yeah! But when you gain weight. There is an uncomfortable silence. Nobody talks about it. Everyone pretends not to notice. But logically speaking. If they notice one persons weight loss, wouldn't they equally notice anothers weight gain? Nooooooo.

And they equally don't ask why. I don't think they'd like the answer.

It's not appropriate to talk about being clinically depressed when we were younger... especially at this wedding.

I was talking to a friend at work about the irony of Nancy being the first of my gang to settle down in a functional relationship, and she said that sometimes we have to hit rock bottom to enable ourselves to embrace life and establish normalcy. Maybe swimming upstream was the wrong way to go. Maybe if I had let go and hit rock bottom with her, maybe I would be getting married today. She got to experience a catharsis and I'm still waiting for my life to start.

Of course things have gotten a lot better since then. But just not exactly how I wanted.

I'd like to tell you a little story about a kid named "Pants"

No not again. I'd really like to tell you a little story about a Blog called "Oh The Places I've Peed" http://theplacesipeed.blogspot.com/

Why would anyone do such a thing? I know it might sound a bit unorthodox, but if you had peed in as many odd places as I have in the past few years you might want to tell stories about it too. I wouldn't exactly call myself a conniseur of commodes... but I have been around the District a few times and I could tell you the best public restrooms in city, which ones are clean, which ones require keys or purchases, the single rooms vs. the stalls, the posh vs. the gross.

I know some people who avoid public restrooms like the plague. Or maybe they avoid them because they think they will catch the plague. Well maybe they can find this beneficial. I also plan on talking a little bit about what goes on outside the stall so this might eventually become a usefull travel reference. I'll be in L.A. and Chicago this summer, and I know I'm going to have to pee at some point. We're taking this nation-wide!

By the way...

Riding Bikes is GOOD!
People dying of AIDS is BAD!
Zach has more than double his donations in the past week and is now at $395 but his brother Greg is kicking his ass with $1025! The race is still on! Every dollar counts!!

Seriously... you can donate as little as ONE DOLLAR if you want. Come on... one dollar? You can handle that. What are you going to do with it? Buy beer? Are you saying one little beer is more important to you than finding a cure to a devastating world-wide disease? Not even a whole beer... just like a part of one. And you probably drink lite beer too... you little wuss.

Fine. Keep your dollar. Drink your lite beer. ...in HELL!


I was just reminded because I got a letter in the mail today from San Francisco AIDS Foundation thanking me for my donation. I feel like such an adult... being thanked for a donation like that. Mostly I felt adult-ish because the moment I saw the envelope I thought I better put that in my tax folder right away so I can deduct it next year!

Fighting AIDS is GOOD!
Getting a phat tax refund is EVEN BETTER!

It seems people besides long lost family and friends might actually be reading this stream-of-concousness (cous-cous-ness?) banter I churn out. Now I feel pressure to churn out more couscous. Honestly, I really do this blog thing for myself. I've never been organized or patient enough to keep a hand written journal or diary. This is just easier for some reason. Besides, it's been really fun to click on old posts and see what I was up to this time last year or whenever.

I just had a thought... I think the first known blogger would be Dougie Howser M.D.. Remember how at the end of each episode he would be sitting at his computer wrapping up the events of the episode? Even before the internet, Dougie was blogging and we were all reading.

I'm really tired but I feel a need to share some of the events of my trip to Massamachusettes. It was cold. Damn cold. Real cold. Cold enough to... well you get the idea. My sister's graduation was outside under a tent... which would have seemed like a great idea in late May... but not in Massamachusettes! "Unfortunately" we didn't have enough tickets for the entire family to sit under the tent. So my younger brother and I managed to sneak away and watch the ceremony on TV in one of the student lounges. Nice and toasty warm.

Favorite random quotes from relatives:
"Yeah that's real funny. That's like walking barefoot on little puppy turds and squishing them between your toes funny. "
"She's all over the place like goose poop."
"...and that's why there are so many sons of bees."
"Would you two keep it down!?!? Talk nice. Pretend like you are in love with each other."

I would like to say thank you to my random single-serving friend Eric for keeping me company on my long and trecherous ride home on the Metro. Taking the last train...and having to transfer three times... can be kind of eerie and it just takes a friggin long time.

But mostly I'd like to thank Ed for walking me to the metro. That crazy guy hollering about homosexuals and the bible didn't seem right in the head. I'm guessing he was one of Bush's key advisors... on the corner of U and 13th St... across from Ben's Chilli Bowl. Now I finally understand where our country's foreign policy comes from.

yes... She used CHUDs in a sentence...

Did you know that the DC/Baltimore area has a vibrant community of super
talented theatre professionals?
Of course you did - you may be one of them.

BUT did you also know that it is also home to hundreds of witty
improvisers as well?
No longer satisfied with being the CHUDs of the DC/Baltimore Theatre
scene, improvisers everywhere are surfacing with a vengeance!

Check it out!
http://dc.irgo.org

Stuff yourself on mounds of mmm-prov goodness!!
We have a smorgasbord of shtick!
This week's menu includes:
* DC Improv Comedy School Cast
* The Well-Sung Players
* The Loyal Opposition
* The BLUE Show
* COMEDYSPORTz
* Baltimore Improv Group

DC.IRGO stands for DC's Improv Repository of Goings On. It is a
calender based "menu" of what improv shows are playing each week in
D.C., Baltimore and surrounding areas. DC.IRGO.ORG includes venue and
ticket information and links to appropriate websites for each
performance. We make it easy for you sit back and enjoy D.C.'s precious
plethora of unscripted theatre.

So bookmark the page and refer to it whenever you feel like making
things up as you go along.
http://dc.irgo.org

If you know of an upcoming show that should be on the DC.IRGO.ORG
calendar feel free to add it, or contact me if you have any questions.

- Megan

Crazy Week from Heck!

This is where I will be this week:
Monday:
Driving 9-9:45
The Box 9:45-5
Driving 5-7
Baltimore 7-10
Driving 10-11

Tuesday
Driving 7:30-9
DC Promo 9-3
Driving 3-5
Baltimore 5-10
Sleepover in Baltimore

Wednesday
Baltimore 7-2
Driving 2-3
DC Promo 3-11
Driving 11-12

Thursday
Maybe some more Baltimore 7-11am
Drive to Massamachusettes 11am until FOR-E-VER!!!!!

I never would have agreed to do the DC Promo gig if I didn't think all
the Baltimore stuff would be done! I'm SOOOO sad about missing improv
class Monday night. Improv class is my favorite thing in the world!
The only reason I wouldn't mind missing an improv class would be to do
an improv show. Which is what happened last time I missed a class. Now
I am missing a second class and it is because I have to drive to stinkin
Baltimore to get my picture taken. This better be a damn good
picture!!!

- Megan

My friend Zach and his brother Greg like to ride bikes. No really, like a lot. Like an OBSESSIVE some might even say FREAKISH amount of bike riding. Now they are finally cycling for the power of good. They are riding their bikes from San Fransisco to Los Angeles to fight AIDS. I don't really understand how riding a bike can fight a disease, but I'm not a medical professional so I don't argue. I think it has something to do with the donations they will raise before they get there. They are both graduating this year (Zach with a Bachelors and Greg with a Masters - both from GMU) and I think they are basically transferring all the graduation money they get into donations to AIDS Lifecycle. This makes me feel like a tool because I used my graduation money to pay some credit card bills and put a new stereo in my car. Geez.

So help the brothas out! $1, $20, $500, whatever. The money doesn't go to them - it goes to sick people. And you can get it back in your tax return next year!

Please visit Zach's website at http://www.aidslifecycle.org/6024 and Greg's website at http://www.aidslifecycle.org/6025 to learn more.

p.s. Zach needs a little more help because most of his friends are poor actors or students.

You can run but you can't hide.

Tonight I'm being an extra for some foreign indy-film. No idea what it
is called or who it is about. I was just told to meet some guy named
Chan at the Judiciary Square metro at 5. Nice and sketchy right? I got
the gig from a reputable casting director, Sereva Racher, so I was
pretty sure I would be safe. I've been trying to avoid extra work
lately because I've reached the point where putting it on my resume
would actually harm more than help.

So I step out of the metro and see the woman who played my type "A"
mother in "Ellie". She's a nice lady, but she never shuts up. You have
NO idea!

...

3.5 hours later and we are done already! It took about 2 hours for the
film crew to show up because they were stuck in traffic. It turns out
that this isn't just some foreign indy film, this is a full budget
BOLLYWOOD production! We are only in 2 seconds of it. But I looooove
me some Bollywood! They worked very fast just catching our reactions to
a man giving a speech to us in a boardroom overlooking the Capitol
building.

Chatty Kathy didn't bother me too much this time. It is kind of funny
that every time I'm in a movie with her it happens to be Bollywood
style.

I accidentally sat backwards on the metro so I have to stop typing now
so I don't vom.

- Megan

"Can it be we're meant for each other, friends till the end with time to discover?
Can it be we can beat this game, side by side holding hands like lovers?"
-Liza Was Rejected by Icewagon Flu

Many members of Icewagon Flu were previously in the band Small Frye. You may remember Small Fry from various church picnics and backyard parties in the Alexandria area in the mid 90s. They were fun then... now they are awesome!

Sooooo gay

Some are of the school of thought that someone is either gay or not,
much like a person can be pregnant or not or dead or not. There are no
degrees of gayness.

Until now.

I just met the gayest kid ever. The sad part is I don't know if he
knows it yet. I was working my sales job at one of the "Mart" stores
and in a matter of minutes this 12-15 year old kid told me I was
fabulous, picked up a pink shirt and told the shirt it was cute, and
told himself out loud that he has gotten sooo fat. Actors playing gay
aren't even that gay.

And his conservative looking asian mother just kept shopping. I wanted
to help him play dress up by offering him a blue hat but I figured at
his age it's best for him to stay under the radar. He was very ADHD as
well... The only way that kid doesn't get beat up on a regular basis is
if he is homeschooled.

Let us all say a little prayer for tolerance and embracing the
individuality of the unbelievable characters we encounter in life.

Work yo big ole asian ass boi!

- Megan

Am I the only person who noticed that today was Haiku day?

SURVIVAL

"My heart stops when you walk in the room... it's very uncomfortable... I fear for my very life... Of course I never said anything... how am I supposed reveal my most guarded emotions when I can't even breathe? All I can do is force myself to inhale... accidentally soaking in your scent... exhale to regain composure... and go on with my life... without you...

It's the only way I am able to survive."

By the way. Michelle O gave me a pony for my birthday. Thanks Michelle!

Improv Jam this Sunday May 8

We've made it a monthly thing: Washington Improv Theater (WIT) is holding another community improv jam.
Sunday May 8730 p.m.
The DCAC (2438 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan)$5 gets you in the door"Trash", WIT's late-night blue show, opens.
Then comes the Lottery-style jam: performances from two teams, each composed of five lucky audience members and a couple of WIT players.

DC has a real improv community.
Come and see.
http://www.dcwit.com/shows/jam.htm