Fridays, Jayhawks, & Survivor

So a few lamentations on Friday traffic in DC.  First, a recent study cited on Yahoo! Finance stated that DC's traffic increases 78% during the week from commuters and the like.  This was the highest increase in traffic from weekends amongst all cities surveyed.  Boston, I believe, was the second highest with about a 40% increase.  Fridays in DC, however, are great.  A commute that generally takes me over an hour can be done in no more than 45 minutes, door to door,  on Fridays.  Yet another great thing about Fridays! In case you're wondering why, it's because many government and management level staff working in DC take Friday off and make up for it by working longer hours during the week.  Additionally, many people telecommute.

Onto another matter.  I was at McFadden's, a local bar in Foggy Bottom, yesterday.  While chatting away and doing the 'hello' thing, I was gladly surprised to learn that a I was talking to a Jayhawk! Indeed I had into run into a Jayhawk without knowing or expecting it!  It was fantastic.  Seeing fellow Jayhawks in a land far, far away from Lawrence, Kansas, land of the mighty Jayhawks, is great - in fact, it's absolutely wonderful.  It makes me wonder if enemies on planet Earth would get along well on, say, planet Pluto if (or perhaps when) that happens.  Of course this isn't unique.  We all tend to be drawn to people with whom we have something in common, be it religion, ethnicity, race, gender, language, culture, nationality, etc.  People from the same states will bond together when they meet each other in distant lands.  The point: it's great to see Jayhawks anywhere and at any time.  Do say hi the next you see me around please!

On a final note, have you ever heard of die-hard 'Survivor' fans who listen to the show and not necessarily watch it?  A colleague just enlightened me with that piece of information. She, for some bizarre reason, can't get the picture on her television to work, but only her sound.  So, being the die-hard Survivor fan, she decided to listen to it since she couldn't watch it.  Perhaps a little too much! Although, if that were the case with Dr. UNH a.k.a. Mr. BOOYAH! , Cramer, I might do the same.   But, I haven't yet and that's key.