I’m super excited to see my sister and her family this weekend, but at the same time I’m frustrated, because it means that I’ll be missing the Obama/Lincoln cupcake installation. People get to eat the cupcakes at the end! It’s the perfect type of art!
Getting psyched for the Obama inauguration? Check out some pictures I took last Sunday, as I wandered around downtown after working at the American History Museum.
I’m still debating going down on Tuesday. It’s tempting, but the logistics are intimidating.
Courtesy of the digital marketing folks at Macmillan, here’s a step-by-step process of how books are made. As far as I can tell, it’s 100% accurate.
I’m just trying to get some work done, but Colin has decided that the best place in the apartment is on my desk, under my lamp. Makes sense–I’m sure it is the warmest spot here. Plus, he has the added bonuses of me petting him AND him impeding my work. It’s a win-win-win.
He seems to be staring at the monitor. Maybe he’s trying to help me edit?
Coming to DC for the inauguration, but aren’t sure how to use the Metro system? Then you shouldn’t miss Metro’s latest video!
Somehow, I doubt all those high-ranking Republicans will be happily toting around Obama SmarTrip cards while taking Metro to the big event. Also, Biden doesn’t know to stand right? For shame!
So yesterday I was hanging out with Brent and Katie in Frederick, and we went to a shop that specializes in food from Eastern Europe. (Because why wouldn’t there be a shop in Frederick, Maryland, specializing in Eastern European foods?) Anyway, it also had some books, and I found one called Founding Fathers of the United States that I just had to buy. It’s from 1988, was originally written in Russian, and was printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Why did I have to buy it? Well, things like the fact that Chapter 3 is “Alexander Hamilton: Prophet of Capitalist Development” and a section of the George Washington chapter is “President of a Bourgeois-Planter Republic.” And in that section, you get sentences like, “Already in the early days of his presidency Washington started to rely on religion as an important lever of state power.”
Plus, the author sure seems to like Jefferson, so it has that going for it.
There’s a really cool set on flickr of London on Christmas morning. It’s almost completely deserted; pretty much everyone is inside. The ones that really got me were of Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Trafalgar Square, because I know those so well, and they’re usually completely teeming. Very cool, and kind of eerie.
Cheers to M-D for the link.
That’s the front of the Christmas card I got from the Kennedy Center for donating to it. Isn’t it gorgeous? That’s why it’s on my list of places where I want my hypothetical future boyfriend to propose to me.
Yes, I do think of things like that. But how can you not think about it when faced with someplace so pretty?
There was a really interesting article in the Post the other day about the Whitman-Walker Clinic, an AIDS clinic in DC that’s been open for over 20 years. Of course I’ve heard about the early days of the AIDS epidemic and vaguely remember how scary a disease it was (not that it’s a laughing matter now), but I also remember watching the tv movie about Ryan White in health in middle school–which would’ve been around 1990. So reading about things like office raids to get the names of people who are HIV positive, funeral homes that wouldn’t handle AIDS deaths, that even doctors wouldn’t treat people who were HIV positive…it’s nuts. Even after watching And the Band Played On and knowing about the history…it just really struck me. It’s hard to believe this was all in my lifetime, you know?
Since I found myself greeted by a large Christmas tree in the office lobby when I left work today, I feel that it’s acceptable for me to share this clip of myself (um, a few years ago, judging by the bangs), doing a little elf dance. That’s totally how I dress and behave at home. Yes, I live in a snowglobe.
