Last weekend, my litter sister, Kelly, flew to DC and completely surprised me for my birthday. She and Dan had been in cahoots. I am amazed by how many people were able to keep it a surprise. I came out of my building after work on Friday expecting to see Dan and was shocked by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington DC’
surprise!
Posted in Thoughts, Washington DC, tagged Thoughts, tourist sites, Washington DC on March 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Snowmageddon (Snowpocalypse2, SnowtoriousB.I.G.)
Posted in Washington DC, tagged Washington DC on February 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We are emerging from our second once-in-a-lifetime blizzard in DC this year. Obama dubbed the storm snowmageddon, though snowpocalypse2, after the snowpocalypse1 storm on December 19, and snowtorious B.I.G. remain popular. Officially 17.8″ fell at National Airport, the fourth largest snowfall since the National Weather Service began keeping records, but 26″ fell in the district. [...]
check, check
Posted in Travel, Washington DC, tagged tourist sites, Travel, Washington DC on December 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dan and I have been making the rounds on some of the tourist destinations in DC. We started getting a feel for our neighborhood early on — which took us to the (outside of) the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial. Since then we have been trying to hit a few other sites every couple of weeks. So far, we have been to the National Museum of American History, the U.S. National Arboretum, The National Building Museum, the National Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Art (West Building), The National Air and Space Museum, the Christmas display at the U.S. Botanical Garden, the (outside of) the White House and the Ellipse to see the National Christmas Tree, the Japanese Lantern and First Cherry Tree Planting, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, and the National Zoo.

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snow! (an official blizzard in DC)
Posted in Washington DC, tagged Washington DC on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am a naturally cynical person — a quality professors have alternately admired and found impossible. I chuckled out loud on the metro when I read on twitter, “Winter storm watch. If you’re new to DC, protocol is to wreck your car while racing out to buy bottled water & canned canned goods.” Yesterday, as [...]
Pictures Pictures
Posted in Washington DC, tagged Thoughts, Washington DC on October 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
People have been clamoring for pictures of our place. We spent weeks ordering furniture and hours building it. But slowly we have emptied our apartment of ALL of the boxes and taken some pictures (though admittedly one box full mostly of duplicated kitchen equipment is just in the car waiting to be taken to a [...]
poco a poco
Posted in Thoughts, Washington DC, tagged Thoughts, Washington DC on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spent part of last week on a business trip to Arizona. It is looking like Arizona will be one of the first states to have all of its Local Health Departments complete Project Public Health Ready. My trip was followed by our first weekend in our new apartment that we did not either go [...]
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