#dc metro area

[brightlotusmoon]

#dc metro area

[imkrisyoung]

It’s gonna be 80 degrees today—in February! 😧

#dmv #dc metro area #washington dc #washington dc area #weather #dc metro weather #md #dc #dmv weather #va #maryland #virginia #capital region

[pinktwink]

I have a security cam set up and am hiding my bunny in my room bc of a horrible roommate situation but look at how cute my baby is with all the squishmallows

#if u need a room in the dc metro area of MD.... hmu

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

visited the kenilworth aquatic garden in washington dc today!! i didn't even know dc HAD an aquatic garden until i saw a little blurb on the news ticker yesterday about it and i'm super glad i went, it's GORGEOUS

#national park #garden #lotus blossom #flowers #photography #... #also gonna tag as #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #lotus pier #@jiang sect stans come get y'all's aesthetic AND touch grass at the same time!! XD #ANYWAY the point is!! #if you're in the DC area consider visiting!! #it's a moderate walk from the deanwood metro station #there's parking available but not a whole lot of it #if you like to bike they have riverfront trails to bike on!! #there's lots of shade and picnic tables and even a few adirondack chairs around the ponds #highly recommend it #posts by cwaf

[chicago-geniza]

Have been putting off buying that edited volume on Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959) because $139 is a lot of money for a blunt object to lob at the heads of all the self-identified lefty American Jews who greeted the story of your family's rather quotidian-for-the-region-and-period peregrinations during the first half of the 20th century with disbelief and "stranger than fiction" skepticism. However. The ASEEES book fair with all its discounts and tantalizing table displays is finally going to get me, I can feel it in my bones

#the flavor of guy who thinks jewish history begins three times: in the desert or the temple depending/on the lower east side/& #in their great-great grandma's shtetl perhaps even The Idea of The Shtetl #jewish history also ended in 1939 except for the part that is in NYC & the DC suburbs & california & US metro areas #the most insufferable people alive and the most likely to be real actual messianists about marxism #sorry i'm rotating like three guys in my mind bc i'm annoyed at them this is not a real problem

[eopederson]

WMATA Metro Entrance, Washington, DC Area, 1977.

Taken the day the Metro blue line opened to National Airport (DCA), 1 July 1977, my notes do not say exactly where this is, but my best guess would be Crystal City in Arlington, VA. So much has changed in the 45 years that have passed to make tracing the exact location of the photo nigh on impossible. It does illustrate the DC area in the 1970s when construction of bland office buildings was the norm. It was quipped that if the minimum construction costs were $10 per square foot, a luxury building would coast $10.01. It didn’t matter, for the Federal Government always opted for the cheapest office space available, and the Beltway Bandits soon followed.

#cityscape #office buildings #wmata metro #washington dc area #crystal city #arlington county #virginia #1977

[acidgirl]

my dad is leaving me and my brother home alone for TWO whole weeks in november i’m so excited i’m gonna smoke so much weed

#any mutuals in the dc metro area let me know if you wanna come through i wanna do shit

[summer-fire]

Starfish…

#I already closed out the page no link sorry… he’s in the dc metro area

[tokyozilla]

More train than dragon but I fold, metro train from the DC area cause public transit is cool

#art #tokyozilla #digital art

[brightlotusmoon]

About - Maxim Biomedical

I keep forgetting this is literally within walking distance of my house. NIH is a 20 minute drive or a metro ride away. Plus, John's Hopkins in Bethesda as well. I could, and probably should, start making connections if I want to find genuine advocacy work.

#dc metro area

[imkrisyoung]

DC area folks, have y’all heard people refer to the area as the DMV or nah?

#dmv #dc metro area #dc metro #washington dc #washington dc area #Washington DC metro area #maryland #virginia #dc #district of columbia

[treesah]

Trying to find a decent place to live within a reasonable commute of Pentagon City and absolutely SCRUTINIZING every aspect of each potential elementary school’s GreatSchools.org profile. It’s really helped me eliminate a lot of areas outright. Like, I’m willing to be open-minded about schools. I never went to any school with a lower rating than 7/10 but given the right mix of not-completely-terrible test scores, improvement over time, and positive parent reviews, I’m entertaining possibly living in areas with schools that have 3/10 ratings.

But like. There are so many schools where the rich white and Asian kids are testing AT LEAST an entire standard deviation BELOW the state average and a modest townhouse is still renting for $4000/month. What the fuck is happening at these schools?? How are they not absolutely slamdunking the stereotypical “set it and forget it” successful student demographics??? Why the fuck does this mediocre townhouse with shitty schools cost $4000/month???? The rental market is out of control!

And don’t get me started on buying, which I’m not going to do. $650,000 minimum for any place that has a garage AND a yard, plus the current 7% interest rate… no thank you.

All these places are so isolated too. Like I walk five minutes away from my current house and there are three playgrounds, two parks, a forest preserve, and I can also go to the pharmacy, get three kinds of takeout, have a meal at the diner, buy groceries, and get my car tuned up. Meanwhile all these townhouses are like “We have SIDEWALKS and we’re NEAR a COUNTRY CLUB!!” because you can’t get anywhere worth going without driving at least 15 minutes to get there.

Anyway I used to think “I’d be happy living anywhere! Home is a mindset and what you make of it! People are basically the same anywhere you go since we’re all so atomized and mobile now!” but the more elementary school reviews and GreatSchools profiles I read and the more obviously-flipped townhouses I see, the more I wonder if I have actually become one of those Chicago people.

#especially mindboggling because I live in a major metropolitan area that is considered to be one of my nation’s cultural centers #and my entire 2000 sq ft brick home with beautiful architecture #on a sleepy street lined with mature trees #in a safe neighborhood with schools rated 7/10 #would rent for only $3000/month #and it’s within walking distance of multiple train and bus lines and only a 20 min train ride into downtown #and I’m moving to an area of the US that I consider to be a huge downgrade culturally #because my husband is about to make $100k more a year than he already does at his new EvilCorp job #since I own my home my mortgage is actually only $2200/month #I’m about to pay almost double in housing costs for the privilege of living in an uncultured swampy backwater #virginia is an open carry state what the fuck #the dc metro area is cursed #no offense to anyone who lives there and likes it #the only upside to all this is that I will only be a 3-4 hours drive away from my beloved grandparents #instead of 13-14 hours of driving away #personal

[brightsuzaku]

My small dream is to take a sleeper train to Chicago, and by gum, I'm gonna do it!

I wanna do it this year or next year. It's very difficult to get enough time off allowed for such a trip, however, since I work in retail.

My goal for this year is to finally get a new job, however, so maybe I could do it..! Just, probably not a job in Chicago, because I am not in a position to move out anywhere, yet. (I can't really move from home here, rent is sky-high.)

Also, a friend has successfully fed me his Pittsburgh propaganda, lol, and so in a hypothetical situation where I could move anywhere, it's either to Pittsburgh OR Chicago.

#text post #brightsuzaku #i want to live in the big city #i am wilting in the suburbs #being in the DC metro area I am at least not suffering-suffering bless our good transit #I WANNA LIVE DOWNTOWN DANGIT #i tell myself that the dream will be achievable someday

[sainte666]

Feeling just insane about my quest to find new doctors in this area.. it just keeps reminding me over and over how much I fucking hate the medical industrial complex and specifically psychiatrists.

Psychiatrists will be like “I look forward to working with you in partnership on issues like bipolar, ADHD, depression, PTSD, etc etc” on their websites and then you actually talk to them and it quickly becomes obvious that they don’t actually respect or trust their patients, like, at all.

Like when they go “oh, by the way, I don’t prescribe ~addictive drugs~ and introduce new problems into my patient’s lives” like that’s fucking solving the cause of the opioid crisis. Like wow, how groundbreaking. You decided to take away a whole slew of legitimate potential interventions because you.. *checks notes* don’t want to be held responsible for actually monitoring and being involved in your patient’s care and health, is that right??

Also the anti benzodiazepine doctor bullshit aside, I also have to say I always notice the change in their voice and mannerisms to me when I disclose that I have bipolar. And it pisses me the fuck offff!! Like, sorry my bad that a PCM prescribed me SSRIs for my first antidepressant (and then that + the consequential psychiatric abuse and continued traumatic experiences I had happen in college) and it made me insane and now I have bipolar on top of all the other things. So sorry to ask you if you can do your fucking job and help me with effective medication management. I’ll go flagellate myself now, you can just send my bill to the nearest hole in the fucking ground

#anyway I just am over it and am convinced there is not one good insurance taking psychiatrist in the entire dc metro area

[bonjourlasodomie]

New DC/Metro area Cupcake Meetup

#New #DC/Metro #area #Cupcake #Meetup

[georgestraitpridemonth]

why am i still subbed to my colleges subreddit 😭

#its a very small sub bc smaller school #and they have terrible takes on everything #they have ofc gone full on zionist since the school banned sjp #i think i saw a post complaining abt masks??? during covid #lied to me abt a class being easy it was not #it has all the problems the main dc subreddit has #hand wringing and subly dogwhistling abt crime statistics as if the school isnt in a nice area #also complaining abt buskers by the metro?? like fork found in kitchen tf