Was a pretty quiet week last week – worked every day and evening – got a bit bogged down but I’m working on it!
Still a very warm and sunny, and the trees on the Mall are just beginning to change colour. There are some pretty streets right near where I am staying in Foggy Bottom which are classified as heritage areas.
Still a very warm and sunny, and the trees on the Mall are just beginning to change colour. There are some pretty streets right near where I am staying in Foggy Bottom which are classified as heritage areas.
The TV is non stop politics here – or American football ( and I can’t work out the rules – very stop start sort of game), or else you find a channel which plays non stop episodes of Law and Order, Charmed or Closer! So don’t watch TV much – good incentive to keep writing.
I decided to work
at least some of the weekend, as my time is running out, but I did find a post office, got my photo taken with (cardboard cutouts of) Barack Obama and John Mc Cain – and enjoyed the subshine.
Although I think Barack Obama is ahead, anything could happen. The
“hockey mom” Sarah Palin who is John McCain’s running mate is getting a lot of attention – whilst I admire her spunk, I am wary of letting someone like that “a heartbeat away” from running the most powerful country in the world. She is convinced she has a God given mandate ...
I decided to work
at least some of the weekend, as my time is running out, but I did find a post office, got my photo taken with (cardboard cutouts of) Barack Obama and John Mc Cain – and enjoyed the subshine.Although I think Barack Obama is ahead, anything could happen. The
“hockey mom” Sarah Palin who is John McCain’s running mate is getting a lot of attention – whilst I admire her spunk, I am wary of letting someone like that “a heartbeat away” from running the most powerful country in the world. She is convinced she has a God given mandate ... Not sure how the election campaign back home is going, I hope it isn’t as dirty as this campaign.
Went to a free Duke Ellington Jazz festival outdoors on the mall on Saturday – very hot so I only watched for a couple of hours, great music especially a grouof about 40 7-12 year olds from Kentucky who played percussion jazz on xylophones, drums and other percussion instruments. They were great – the Louisville Leopards – and awfully cute as well. Walked around a bit, it seemed that the M
all was full of tourists, and locals enjoying the sunshine. The locals were playing Ultimate Frisbee, some sort of Handball game, baseball and soccer – in social teams on all the available grass on the Mall. Quite fun for people-watching. Sunday I went to a free film festival at the National Geographic Society which was quietly relaxing. Back at work this week, my time is running out here in Washington, and once I leave here I will be meeting and talking with lots of people so working hard now is good. Ooh, writing is sometimes like drawing out teeth - painful!
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