On Sunday afternoon, my roommates and I embarked on a journey around the Tidal Basin to see the Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials. It was a very nice day and a fairly long walk. We observed that the walk would have been even nicer had the cherry blossom trees been in bloom. I noted that the are 44 steps up to the top of the Jefferson memorial, plus three more once you are inside the building itself. I still have no idea what the significance of the step-counting is. The memorials were as awe-inspiring as always, and the MLK one even more so, as this was the first time any of us had seen it. Because it was cold and dinner time we grabbed Chipotle on the way back. And to round off the day, I introduced Melissa and Becca to the glorious joy that is Psych!
On Monday I returned to the Holocaust museum to get my security badging done. For some reason when we were doing my fingerprinting the machine really didn't like my fingers. The basic way that used to be done with ink went by smoothly but for some reason when we did the new finger rolling for extra security approximately seven out of ten of my fingers would register. But apparently that didn't matter too much because I've been cleared and I just have to wait for everything to process. I then headed over to the GFWC with a huge grin on my face and a plan to try and figure out how I was going together to work on Thursday. Needless to say, I got a little lost and confused. Thank you Google Maps for iPhone. In honor of Chinese New Year, we had a catered lunch of pretty decent Chinese food (as far as Orange and General Tso's Chicken can be considered Chinese...) and I got to know some of the other people who work in my department that I'd never really talked to very much. I spent the remainder of the week finishing the magazines project, filing donations records, cataloging donated books from the GFWC library (which included my textbook from Women's History with Dr. Reaves and a book version of a video she had shown us), and organizing slides. I think the slides are one of my favorite projects here because they bring back memories of looking at slides at Granny and Grampa's house years ago.
As part of the requirements for LCWS, we have to attend a Congressional Subcommittee Hearing, so Becca, Melissa, and I took advantage of our late Wednesday Field Trip and headed to Capitol Hill. The Hearing we chose to attend was an investigation into the EPA's investigation of hydraulic fracturing in Pavilion, Wyoming. The most exciting part of the hearing was at the beginning when, Josh Fox, the HBO documentarian best known for Gasland, was arrested for refusing to cooperate with procedure and stay in the press gallery. This lead to a motion, after his removal, to let him return that was, after a forty minute recess due to an inability to reach a quorum, shot down twice in a 7-6 vote. The hearing itself was fairly boring and roundabout. Nothing was concluded and most of the Congressmen left fairly quickly into the proceedings. After the hearing we had to rush back to the apartments for our roommate agreement meeting, which went quite smoothly.
Wednesday afternoon's "field trip" was to the LCWS Offices where we listened to presentations from the Peace Corps, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Americorps, and a similar Jesuit Volunteer group. It was interesting, and I'm lucky I'm as young as I am if I were to consider doing any of them since the Peace Corps' application process takes a year!
Class was uneventful, but I did a lot of cooking this week! On Friday I through together some Gnocchi from Trader Joes with some garlicky spinach. On Saturday, I used up some tomato and made a pasta sauce completely from scratch. And on Sunday I made Maple-Bacon Cupcakes for the Super Bowl. It was a very successful weekend for cooking.
All in all, not a very exciting week since the Metro was closed at Rosslyn station for track work on Super Bowl weekend, so we couldn't really go anywhere. I did finally try a Georgetown Cupcakes (a cupcakery with its own show on TLC) and I have to say that while it was good, I wasn't all that impressed.
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