Welcome back to DC, Clarence!
I had dinner at M&S Grill with Clarence and Jonathan last night where I resisted ordering the $1.95 (!!) happy hour burger, but I did abscond with some of Clarence's generous portion of fries and had two glasses of Shiraz. (I did feel kind of terrible later that night, so I paid for it in guilt and a churning stomach.) Clarence and I agreed that we would take beginners Spanish together at USDA this spring or summer. That's going to be perfect, in that when I finally run into Gael Garcia Bernal, I'll be able to speak his language, paving the way to our imminent lifelong, sometime tumultuous, but always exciting, relationship.