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Monday, March 17th, 2003 04:35 pm
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.
Monday, March 17th, 2003 05:41 pm (UTC)
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.