The name: a tribute to Troy

June 9

"Saxa in the City" a clever play on the popular television show and a touch of Georgetown. While the blog is not about sex, it is about what rocks in the city. If your not from Georgetown, don't know Latin and don't have any friends from Georgetown then just to fill you in, "Hoya Saxa" is the Georgetown University chant and nickname...and in Latin means "what rocks."
We struggled with the name of the blog for a few weeks, trying to come up with something that represented our new apartment, the new neighborhood, the zoo, the number 3 etc. We had some interesting ideas and words being thrown around, but its was just starting to sound too thought out. Yes we live in 133 at 3000 there are three of us and but the number 3 was starting to show up in places it didn't need to be. When we tried to go with the zoo theme it got really interesting....leading people on safari's or the jungle of the capital. "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" We even attempted on our way back from the movie Sex and the City to identify which animal at the zoo we would want to be. We should have been listening to the signs more then, because clearly I am not a tiger and Katie really didn't want to be a bear. We also toyed with the idea of just starting with something like "not your typical DC blog..." 1. because its not and 2. because we want to make sure that everyone understands we are not dc interns or staffers that want to publish the details of their summer flings. And other openers like "working girls in the city..." I for one do not want to be identified as unemployed, but there is a lot more to me then my job, well hopefully there will continue to be after I start my real job.
So here you have it, a short and sweet little title that shows you where the roots of the blog come from. We are expanding our city research outside the walls of the Georgetown hilltop in the next stage of our lives. The "oh my god, this is the real world!" "DC really is amazing when you actually 'live' in the city" "we have income, but not that much money" stage of our lives. We're open to new things and exploring, but still have the all nighters stamina to take full advantage of what the city has to offer. For me this has been sleep (getting 8 hrs a night has been a fantastic addition to my life) and making sure that I have a full calendar so that I have something to fill the void in my head and time where my thesis used to be.

Our new friend Troy helped us out with the title, thank you for your creativity. The other title options he came up with were a little inappropriate, but still funny...considered for a moment until their origins were explained, laughed at and then rejected. But they were funny buddy. I mean, he really is funny, and sarcastic. Something he didn't know he was until revealed to him recently. Some how, despite the fact that he is himself uptight has helped me to be less uptight and recently, I think funny. I've never been the funny one in my family. My older brother was always the funny one, and then my younger brother came along and it was just like, um, watch out! but recently people have been laughing. Now they could be laughing at me, but I actually think having a 60+ page thesis and trying to graduate off my chest has allowed me to be a little more me. I owe my witty moments to Troy....he really is a wit "inspirationalist". I just can't help but create one liners to make him laugh or rebound off his one liners. our g-chatting is like one punch line after another. The majority of the conversation is us realizing that we are the coolest most important social organizers in the dc area (or at least for our friends) and are secretly fighting for the attention of the special person in our lives. The high five line was all for you Troy!
So thanks for the blog name, Sandra Bullock and here we come Holyland!