Saturday: Let me pose a question- what is the
best way to start your Saturday? If you answered with brunch , you would be
correct. If you answered brunch at Bernaise you'd be both creepy and
correct. Regardless, I heartily recommend
it. Olivia and I, because we're smart, ordered the french toast and the ham and
brie omelette and split them. Josh and his friend from out of town got the
spinach and feta omelette and the croque madame, both of which looked
excellent. My french toast was decadent and topped with blueberry compote, the
omelette was fluffy, and I'm going to need to track down some brie to try
making it for myself. The evening was dedicated to walking around the
monuments, we hit the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, and the World War II
Memorial. As stunning as they all are at night, we managed to visit on the
anniversary of D-Day, so that was particularly special. We ubered back to the
house, because we are wimps.
Sunday: Whole Foods. Very hot out.
Monday: Probably sick. Library presentation in
class, got some good research tips for subjects other than Anthropology, my
usual research area.
Tuesday: definitely sick
Wednesday: Might be dying. Policy salon with
Scott Greytak. Scott is deceptively youthful-looking for the very impressive
legal career he's had so far.
Thursday: Still dying. Congressional baseball
game in the evening after work! Obama turning up for a little while was
probably the best part, although watching congressmen run around in their old
college uniforms had a serious entertainment factor. Dems won. On the way home
we found one of those fountains that just spray up from the sidewalk and
pretended to be five year olds for a little while (or at least I did).
Friday: Study tours to Voice of America and
NPR! But first, can we talk about how hot it is now? We sweated our way through
the Voice of America tour, which was especially interesting for me since they
were playing news in Farsi in one of the rooms we went through. I also
discovered that I should probably practice my Farsi. Regardless, we had a very nice docent who was
very happy to share lots of history about VoA. We had our second Obama sighting
in 24 hours when his motorcade came within 30 feet of running us down after the
VoA tour. After a brief lunch break, during which some of us dashed home for a
lighter change of clothes (again, what is this heat?), we met up at NPR. Upon
arrival we were told that the gift store would be closed by the time our tour
was done. Understandably, this was devastating news for some of us (me). I am
the proud new owner of way too many monogrammed reusable shopping bags. The
colors were irresistible. I swear. Yeah. My shopping bag addiction aside, the
tour was amazing. For instance, did you know that not only do the NPR offices
have a green roof, they also keep honey bees on it? They do! If I were to do
something outside of foreign relations or something, I could probably see
myself working there. That may just be my appreciation of their color scheme
talking though. The rest of the evening
was spent in a charming state of collapse on the couches. This cough just will
not be shaken.
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