Cold Front Moving In

I am writing this in a sweater with a blanket wrapped around my freezing body. D.C. should not be 20 degrees. Sorry to everyone out in the Midwest, trust me I am feeling for you.

A barrage of museums, they are slowly starting to become a blur but I will try to differentiate between all of them. We had our first tour of the Capitol. Everyone was looking forward to seeing where we would be working starting next week. Unfortunately, we had the tour guide from hell. This man was not happy with his job, and it started with screaming us into 3 lines in a semi-circle and it did not go up from there. This is my plead to everyone who will ever tour our nation's Capitol, please schedule a tour with your representative's office the tour guided ones are terrible.

After hitting rock bottom the only way to go is up. And the Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery. An absolute must see. The works may not be as famous as some of those in NGA, but they are very easy to relate because well duh they are from our country. They have two great pieces from Nam June Paik, an extremely renowned video artist who has a piece in the Haggerty and MAM. But his pieces here were something I have never seen before. I will try to post a video I took of them. And bonus Dr. Carter was a close friend of his so I got to brown nose a little when I commented how much I liked it. Paige-1. The portrait gallery has so many historical images and they even have little comments next to them so you know who you are looking at.

Today, we went to the Kennedy Center for Preforming Arts. Try to wrap your mind around a place that has 6 major theaters in it, including an opera house, a symphony hall, a children's theater, and, of course, is gorgeous inside. And everyday they have a free performance, and not like a rehearsal, an actual scene from the opera or whatever. Found a place to take the parents.

Next we went to my backyard, the Library of Congress. Nice marble, cool frescoes, but not much else to see. A lot of it is off limits. Still cool to say I was there. And once I am an intern I can get into some of those off limits places. And another cool thing to say I attended was the Smithsonian Annual MLK Lecture. It was um... interesting. At least I can say I attended a lecture at the Smithsonian.

Only a few more days of this crazy class then its time to start supporting Max Baucus, which by the way in the past four years has had a motorcycle accident (hopefully not a Harley), fell while running a 50 mile ultramarthon, and had a pacemaker put in. I think that this 63 year old needs to settle down.