Barb’s Burblings

Pretty much since November 5, Washingtonians have been bombarded with stories about the upcoming Obama inauguration. Millions–and millions!–of people will be descending on the city! There won’t be any parking! All the bridges over the Potomac will be closed! It’ll be super cold! And so on. And after 3 months of this, you wind up with a lot of locals holing up in their homes, or fleeing town altogether. I mean sure, a lot of people will be heading downtown. But when you see signs warning against inaugural parking in Shirlington…well, you can understand why a lot of us who live around here aren’t going anywhere.

See, the thing about Shirlington is that while it isn’t far from downtown DC, it’s definitely not the most accessible place. It’s not really near a Metro station, so you’d have to take a bus to get to the Metro. And walk? Well, I don’t believe they’re allowing people to walk on 395. So yeah, kind of random.
Me? Still undecided about going downtown, though I’m leaning against it, I think. I don’t know what I will do, but I’ll certainly be watching. Possibly at home. In my warm, warm pajamas.