Jesse O’Connell

@oconnell.bsky.social

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Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/

A Wrexham AFC flag flies in front of a house.
A very sweaty crowd at the market
A robot stopped by the curb.
Lettuce, the deadliest catch
A very pretty salad.
Chase bats in an Alexandria Dukes v. Reston Herndon all stars summer friendly tourney game.
A scale rendering of what Mr. Boh will look like on the National Harbor sphere
A screenshot of the Joe Buck welcome to the top of the 47th tweet
A newspaper ad from the 1890s announcing the St. Elmo development in what was then the Town of Potomac
Contrails dissipating right over the top of my office roof
A petting zoo including animals like a lllama
A double rainbow over Potomac yard
Final product, two strawberry black pepper margaritas, one up and one over ice. I did half tequila half mezcal (and we can just pretend I did that on purpose to improve the drink and not because the tequila kicked halfway through building the drink)
Emily’s house, which Jesse gets to live in, looking really damn good at sunset.
A cocktail in a jar in front of flowers.
Whole peppercorns being coarsely ground with the bottom of a pot to make a simple syrup
A cocktail dusted with cinnamon and chipotle chili sits in front of some flowers
Mezcal, amaro, licor 43, kahula, ancho chili liqueur, and fresh espresso ready to have the shit shaken out of them for a riff on a carajillo
Two cocktails and a dessert at Stracci
The hydrangeas in front of my house are doing a blue to pink ombré thing
The cover of Relegated by Todd Smith
A board setup for Bunny Kingdom
A poster for a bar crawl that involves two bars that share a wall and bathrooms.
Dinner was an Albert Burneko style throw a bunch of veggies and eggs in the oven and cook until perfect
Screenshot of the “I lived bitch” meme
Smiling people cut the ribbon to officially reopen DBW
A bike’s handlebars in front of the Wythe St Post Office.
Russ Cole gunning hard on a stick.
President Bartlett lights a cigarette in the national cathedral after shouting at god in Latin
A image from the US Department of Education Facebook page, Miss Hoover from the Simpsons holding a “Make Education Great Again” book with the caption “Teachers Are Mentors”
Wrexham striker Josh Windass
A red cocktail over a large cube of ice in my favorite old fashioned glass. Well in fairness, it’s my favorite right now, in this moment. Later tonight another glass might be my favorite. I’ve got a bunch. It’s a problem.
Inside that bag is the best loaf of focaccia bread known to man.
A can of Common People from Bluejacket, in collab with DC Beer.
A bike basket filled up to the top with, uh, supplies.
Five people ready to listen to Guster songs and learn about time travel.
Chela Mexican lager from Port City
A screenshot advertising the Stephen Wilson Jr show at the Filmore.
A man sitting in his trunk watching a little league game.
A chessboard on a picnic table in a beer garden.
The cover of The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The cover of We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole
St Patrick’s Day plate
The cover of Elizabeth Varon’s biography of James Longstreet
A city of Alexandria “I Voted” sticker on a plaid shirt
Yellow suit tree guy meme
Bob Beamon doing superhuman shit.
Gray tile meets green tile.
That’s a lot of backsplash
View from the top of Timberline
A man who wishes he had Kieffer Moore’s hair wears a red Wrexham AFC kit in front of a bookcase.
An “I voted” sticker from the city of Alexandria on a white fleece vest.
A screen shot of an article that talks about Pizza Hut closures and the “Hut Forward” strategy.
The front page of the WaPo sports section from the morning after Strasburg debut, with two ticket stubs framed underneath it.
The end result of the Trader Joe’s dumpling bake recipe that Instagram shows me twice a day.
An Irish foreign births registration certificate.
A coffee boulevardier (1.5 oz rye, 3/4 oz Campari, 3/4 oz sw vermouth, 3/4 oz coffee liqueur, 1/4 oz grand marnier) garnished with a preserved orange slice