I guess I'll splurge today.

First, a couple funny stories.

In the D.C. metrotrain (boy, that sounds like the name of a transformer or something) station, I was using a train fare machine when there was this loud, shreiking yell of "YOU'RE AN IMMIGRANT YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!" Pretty much everyone turns and there was this old lady at the big manned ticket booth. She continued yelling in an exchange similar to the following:


"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T TELL ME YOUR NAME?!!

The woman of possibly East-Indian descent quietly responded, although her response was inaudible to any of the people listening from afar.

"I WANT TO SEE YOUR MANAGER!!" screamed the lady, her eyes beginning to shimmer with a blood-like hue.

The ticket booth operator quietly dismissed herself, leaving the old lady snarling, demonic wings sprouting from her back and fangs erupting her mouth.

"COME BACK HERE LADY! COME BACK HERE! IMMIGRANT!!!" she howled.


Hey, I said what happened was SIMILAR, but I'm sure you can figure out which parts were made up.


I was at work, just doing stuff when there was this conversation over the next cubicle wall. Now, this one stood out for two reasons:

1. About 99% of conversations in this office are in Spanish, and this one was in English.

2. It was between two guys, one of them asking the other to burn a DVD. Not so weird, until I heard the DVD would be filled with downloaded episodes of Duck Dodgers. And he clearly specified it was the one from Cartoon Network, not the classic cartoons, and that Duck Dodgers was his hero. I just thought that was kind of strange.


My camera had some sort of file error, so most of my pictures from the first day were lost. GAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! Well, I guess it's no big deal. That was the day I made the smart move of wandering around town during a heatwave. Needless to say I was pretty annoyed. It has been cooler lately though, and so I now have a few photos to show for it:



The Watergate hotel

The err-uh Kennedy Centuh foah the Pahfoaming Aaahhhts! Yes, I went to the trouble of photographing and posting it just to say that, and only ONE person reading this will get it. Sigh...

A sculpture outside the aforementioned Kennedy center.

Some guy's house, I don't know who. Sure was heavily guarded and popular with the tourists.

Me in front of that mystery house

There will be more much later, I still haven't really explored the city yet to take pictures, and there's still a lot to see. But before then, I think I need to find a better way to show these pictures off, this journal posting is more time-consuming than I thought.