day 10: the one where i think there is a creeper following me.

today i woke up to a beautiful day here in dc, and absolutely nothing to do. 

(besides the ever-present job hunting adventure)

so, after lounging around in my pajamas, i got a little antsy.

i changed into my workout clothes, hid my house key in my handy spybelt

(thanks heide!)

and off i went to explore my neighborhood.

i walked towards pentagon city, and one moment there was a cement well in front of me, and the next, the most beautiful view of dc! 

(i should have taken a picture--whoops!)

it is still incredible to me (and i hope it will always be this way) that i live this close to these amazing sights! 

the pentagon, the white house, the washington monument, the big lincoln--otherwise known as the lincoln monument--

seriously, these places are incredible!

i love it.

i l-o-v-e it! 

anyways, onto the point of this post

(hint: it's in the title)

i got a little lost. and not terribly lost, but just "i took a wrong turn and not sure what to do besides turn around and come back the way i came" kind of lost. 

(the streets are seriously confusing here) 

so, i turned around and eventually found where i was supposed to be. 

when i was about 5 minutes away from my house 

(after a ~5 mile adventure, i was covered in sweat and ready to be home with the air conditioning!),

  i noticed a man following me, who had been there for a block or two.

i thought i'd  be sneaky and cut through an apartment complex to get to the bridge to my house 

(yep, there is a little creek nearby!)

instead of staying on the main sidewalk, 

just to make sure that this guy wasn't following me. 

so as i reached the bridge by taking my "shortcut", i saw him coming up behind the other building to the bridge as well 

(which would have been my original route had i not tried being sneaky!) 

i might have panicked a little bit, but decided to just keep walking. 

well, my house is 2 houses down from the bridge, and

i didn't want him to know where i lived so i kept walking past, 

and went a couple blocks further AND HE WAS STILL BEHIND ME!

so i said a quick prayer, asking which direction to go to get away from this guy. 

i turned right at the next block, and thankfully the man kept walking straight.

I doubled back and went to my house, safe and sound. 

i never thought anything bad would happen, 

but always better to be safe than sorry...whew. 

tomorrow i might venture all the way to target. 

yep, there is one that is precisely 1.9 miles from my house. 

score!