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Message: [QUOTE="Timonen, post: 1201499, member: 81"] I wanted to close the loop on this and let you know how it went. I decided to head in and go to Sign of the Whale. The wait for the train in Bethesda was pretty long (3 trains came going the other direction in the same time it took for one to take me into the city which i suppose makes sense at that time). So, it did net out to 30-35 minutes which is exactly what I was mentally prepared for from all of your feedback. I got off at Dupont Circle per Bill Orange and walked past the palm. I gave the TK salute on the way past for good luck. I passed SOTW my first time down M, but saw it when I backtracked. Smaller than I expected from the pictures. As you warned, it was young. Now I'm no codger like some of you (respectfully :)), but these kids were 10-15 years younger than me. There was no sign of anybody from Syracuse. I sat at the bar and had them turn on the Texas/Iowa game in front of me so it was already where it needed to be for gametime. Then I drank (plastic cups - holy hell, where am i?!?!). at one point a young lady sat next to me with nothing IDing herself as a cuse fan, but it turns out she's a 2011 grad from hawaii who lives in the neighborhood and comes for games. OK, here we go - let's open the floodgates! She stayed for 20 minutes or so and we traded stories about her playing beer pong with Dante and Scoop and me playing drums while McNabb danced in the front row (nice commonality across generations) before she headed upstairs to watch. I didn't want to give up my seat for the unknown, and I didn't trust there was any cuse people up there because I had been monitoring the flow. I ordered the Buffalo Chicken Dip. It was strangely and unexpectedly divine. Then the game started. Very soon in, a nicely suited man who was a little older than me came and sat down next to me and self IDed himself as a cuse fan. We got to chatting and it turns out it was Ross Rubenstein, chair of the Public Admin dept at Maxwell. As an MPA grad, that was a neat and unexpected treat. I was grossly underdressed in my sweatshirt and hat (though I could have competed with him 3 hours earlier on that front). He was coming from a fundraiser that seemed to have every SU bigwig in attendance and lots of notable Washington folks. We had fantastic conversation through the first half and it validated my choice to go there. The game was the game. Ross had some friends come for the second half and I took off back to the hotel. I didn't want to sit through an ugly second half AND miss the last train. I caught the final 8 minutes in my hotel and was pleased I had made that choice, particularly when my wakeup call came at 4:30 this morning. So, definitely a worthwhile venture and I can check the box on "making something out of every minute of my work trip" which is always the goal. Again, thanks to all for the thoughts/insight. [/QUOTE]

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