Tuesday (since nothing of note happened Monday):
Received a couple of projects at work: yay!! They were interesting and important. I also explored the depths of the building. We'll probably get lost if we have to go alone next time.
The Theatre. The Folger's Theatre was showing "Sense & Sensibility," so of course I went to see it. It was opening night, and the cast worked through the kinks fantastically and the show was better than anticipated. As much as I love Austen, "Sense & Sensibility" is ranked near, if not actually, the bottom of the list for me. But I've never seen one of her works performed live, and thought the location was great as well. And they did such a great job!! They definitely amped up the comedy factor significantly. On such a small stage, complete set makeovers would be difficult, so every piece is on a casters and the cast rolls them around effortless. Without getting up from their chairs, a parlour becomes a patio becomes a dining table. The members playing multiple characters were shoved back and forth across the stage when necessary. And the playwright incorporated several proposal lines from other Austen works into this one, for better or worse. The comedy 100% made this performance! Loved it!
Thursday:
The first memo I wrote required very little editing and passed all the way up the chain of command to the boss! I've officially done a thing.
In addition, since D.C. is crawling with Congressmen, I've started Congressman Bingo. Unfortunately, I can't post photos like I do with Embassy Bingo, because I've rarely seen any of them long enough to take a photo. But so far we've at least seen:
Senator Cory Booker
Senator Rand Paul
Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Bill Cassidy
Congressman Don Young
There are certainly others, but with so many of them, I'm still learning to recognize faces.
Saturday:
I have been wanting to go to a Madame Tussaud's for a very long time. It's been on my to-do list in London, but I just haven't done it yet. So I went to the D.C. exhibit! I know that each is themed for the city it's in, so I wasn't surprised to see all the presidents; I was surprised that there wasn't much else. There are maybe four other rooms, each with a few... is statues the right word? But it's predominately presidents.
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| The Taft |
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| The Kennedys |
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| Uncle Sam |
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| Me and my new oven are capable of great things. |
I didn't get many good pictures because I'm terribly unaccustomed to the idea of getting up-close-and-personal or touching the displays. There were plenty of other people wandering the narrow space, climbing on plinths, putting their arms around the figures, but it just felt... wrong.
Post-Madame Tussaud's, I headed to the International Spy Museum. Dang, that place is cool. Videos narrated by Linda Hunt and Toby Stephens, the temporary exhibit on James Bond, and the interactive "learning to be a spy" portions. I climbed through an air duct, listened to the bugs around the building, saved the world from a nuclear device, and hung off a helicopter (for more than 10 seconds, everybody). Essentially, this museum tells you everything you think about spies is true at least some portion of the time.
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| Russia post-1990s knows what's up. |
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| And I used a digital Enigma machine. How did anyone figure this out, the first time 'round? |
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| The back of the Carnegie Library is way more interesting than the front. |
Sunday:
Just explored the Pentagon City Mall today. Found another Panera, a Teavana (their Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Chocolate tea is amazing, and possibly the first Pumpkin Spice drink I've had), another Taco Bell, a Nordstrom Rack and a Marshalls, etc. Once again made me realize I miss Tasku's habit of stores putting the price of the items mannequins are wearing in the window, so I could see how expensive a store is going to be before I walk in and immediately leave.
And unless something crazy happens in the next several hours, that was my week!
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