DC: The First Full Day

[gfish]

Timezones suck. I got 2 hours of sleep last year.

I saw two assholey-acting, diplomatic-plated cars today. Maybe it really is as common as the mass media would have me believe. Also, people actually honk at traffic here. I still don't understand that.

The FBI building is one the ugliest buildings I've ever seen.

Apparently I look safe-yet-competent even in a strange city. While I was walking up Virginia avenue someone pulled over to ask for directions -- and I knew the answer.

The exhibit hall of the National Archives is closed for remodeling. I am deeply disappointed. The Constitution and The Bill of Rights are some of the few things that make me feel patriotic.

The temperature was fine, but it was really, really wet. I could either wear my coat and be at a comfortable temperature, yet sweaty, or I could take it off and not sweat, but be cold. I don't know where DC gets off being so humid. It isn't like it's next to a real ocean or anything.

The World Bank has a gift shop.

Comments

[velvetknife.livejournal.com]

You should check out the spy museum. I hear it's more of a tourist attraction than a museum, but you know you want to go - and you can tell me how it was, since I never did.

The concept of the display section of the national archives being closed for remodeling right now is so perfectly fitting that I can't even express my amusement at the topic.

Remember, if a car with diplomatic plates hits you or your car, beat the shit out of the driver. If he presses charges, he doesn't get diplomatic immunity from the accident - and if he doesn't, then your car was totalled, but you got to beat the shit out of a diplomat without going to jail.

It's all the hot air coming out of those dipshits down in Virginia that heats the place up, by the way.

[jadine.livejournal.com]

DC was built on a swamp, because no one else wanted the land. Be glad it's too early for the Mosquitoes o' Doom.

Drivers there in general are utterly insane. (Possibly less so than in New York, but no one has yet been able to prove this.) If you take a good look at the street layout, you will understand what leads to this insanity.

[cow.livejournal.com]

I find it ironic that in this time of rights-trampling and such, the National Archives is closed to the public.

Heh.