Uh, did that actually just happen?

Do you ever have one of those moments when you realize that you're living the life you always wanted to lead, and everything is just incredibly perfect?

I had that revelation tonight, after getting dinner with Ash at Angelico's, walking all over Tenley and Friendship Heights, philosophizing at our church, and dancing in the fountain. Yes... dancing in the fountain... clothed.

Let me point out for those of you who don't go to AU that Ash and I look very similar, according to us and several other people who have asked us if we're sisters. We're also roommates. And we are, if the media is to believed, the poster children for the trashy frat boy fantasy.

The water was so soothing that it didn't even matter that it was a little too cool. It felt unbelievably cleansing even though it was DC water and, therefore, laden with chemicals that have been proven to cause mutations in lab rats.

A security guard came up and asked if we were, uh, okay... *insert staring here.* We explained, kind of haltingly -- because the awesomeness of fountain-dancing was so evident to us that we had trouble picturing what it would be like to, you know, not be us -- that we were college students... because that seemed to justify everything. Unwilling to leave without one last dance in the Fountain of Joy, I asked if it would be okay if we fountained (yet another verb for Katash!) one more time. He said, "Why yes! I would like to see!"

I then realized, for the five hundredth time, that I am a ditz. I'm serious. I don't just say stupid things intentionally and then play dumb... I actually am this oblivious.

So -- with him watching -- as well as another guy and his friend -- we fountained one last time. The other guy came up to us, fidgeting with something in his back pocket. I swear I thought he was going to pull out his wallet and offer us a few bucks to go do it again.

He asked us, sort of giggling, where we lived. Ash told him... her rationale was, "Oh, come on! It's AU! There are like ten thousand other people there!"

We walked home soaking wet.

Tonight was awesome.