We've gone over to Benning Road.

Important to note that bulk items (e.g., bed frame) can only be dropped off Wednesday-Friday. Saturdays are reserved for household hazardous waste (e.g., TV).

A fun snippet from Ghosts of DC where a resident of Columbia Heights is complaining about street name changes when the city absorbed what had been a "suburb" prior to that time:

>Judge McCalmont led the opposition to the resolution. “This thing of having mathematical accuracy to everything I do not believe in,” he said, with considerable emphasis. “The scheme of naming these streets Yale, Harvard, and Princeton was a good one. They are significant of nice schools, names of colleges held in affection, and why should they not remain? I believe that the people should have something to say in the naming of their streets. Our people know enough to find the way home.” He held up for ridicule the A B C system and the lack of sentimentality which the names would possess.

From a letter to the Washington Post in 1904.

Harvard St. is still there, but the rest of the names were changed. I always wondered about Kenyon Street and Dartmouth Street. Because they were tucked in with a lot of other college names, they might have been legitimately named for those two schools as well. Columbian College (which was moved and became GW) used to be there and was the namesake of the area.

I believe the tree streets were something started in Takoma Park, which was a planned Victorian bedroom community established in 1883.

>In this connection one should also note that the early street names chosen by Gilbert were those of local trees: Tulip, Cedar, Maple, Dogwood. etc.

It was an extension of the "Sylvan Suburb" ideal he wanted to create. Looks like DC took those botanical names and ran with them when the city was extended, at least according to this 1907 map. If I'm reading it right, Aspen St. used to be "Wabash."

The streets are mostly trees but not all (dahlia, fern, and geranium, for example).

I would recommend calling 311 directly. I've done it a handful of times to ask a human about something random and have truly found them very helpful.

This isn't exactly the same, but recently we requested a whole unit cleanout of the alley behind our place via phone (SO much illegal dumping), which is a much better alternative that opening, like, 20 separate cases for each piece of bulk trash back there.

FWIW, I've been going to Ben Lockshin's practice for over a decade at this point (his father, Norman, practiced there before him) and have always had a solid experience.

One thing I would recommend is coming with a full list of what you've tried so you can go through it with the doctor and don't forget anything. My derm (Saurabh Singh) is great, but it is a BUSY practice and I feel like I always have to be on my A game to go through everything before he's off to the next patient. I've seen other docs in the practice in urgent cases b/c it can take months for me to see him for routine check-ins and had the same feeling.

They're good, but they're also scheduled really tightly I think.

I didn't think I'd remember him since it's been a few years, but it was Brad Norman. He works out of a couple of their locations.

No complaints about the surgery he performed but he was truly living up to the stereotypes about surgeons and bedside manner with the IUD stuff.

Yeah, I think CWC as a place is hard to assess because there are so many offices and doctors! I was already a little salty at this guy after he expressed vocal disbelief that I'd had my copper IUD for the full 10 years. Don't know what to tell you, buddy, I def don't want kids.

The double insertion was the cherry on top.

I went to PP for my first insertion and they were great! Even if they don't numb you, I honestly found it relatively manageable because they were so fast and efficient.

Had my second insertion at CWC and it was a NIGHTMARE. I'd gone for surgery with them and was doing a combined follow-up and insertion with the surgeon and he had to do it TWICE because he didn't seat it correctly the first time.

I've been having issues with TMobile on green, both yesterday and today.