Hodgepodge

Time for another photo dump, all. Let's start this off right.

I don't know if it was the light or what, but my arm doesn't normally look eighty years old. Anyway, this was the battle wound I received from giving three vials of blood for a research survey. It was the best of all possible options, because I was the healthy 18-24 test subject, so I wasn't subjected to any procedures. Unfortunately, I had to pee in a cup in a bathroom that was on the other side of the hospital, and didn't receive anything to put the cup into. I made a makeshift tent out of paper towels that I am sure fooled no one. I had a sexy doctor, too. Payment: thirty dollar gift card to Safeway.

My supervisor at work is nothing if not wacky. A scrubby bubble! And it squeaks!






Travis with Steve Colbert by the bathrooms.










One day, after I marry the prince of a small country, I will have stained glass windows.










How pretty.








Now, I have to wonder if that woman's head was as microscopic as it appears, or if the painter had no sense of scale.





Using a Buddha board, a five-year-old declared his undying love to me.






Sadly, our plans to go to the Spy Museum on Saturday were foiled by about two hundred other people who wanted to go at the exact same time. We drowned our sorrow in the gift shoppe.



You know what's really top secret? The fact that those folders cost two cents to make and they're being sold for $6.50.





Oh, spelling.








So I was at a friend's dorm in Georgetown last week and if you can believe it, the dorm rooms are smaller than Penn State dorm rooms. I know.




The White House was looking rather stately. This was the day that it went up to 65 degrees and I took off my coat freely. It was President's Day, appropriately, and even though I tried to go to work the building was locked and I was forced against my will to go enjoy some cultural institutions.


The American eagle is taking over the world ... starting with Europe.







I enjoyed the paintings at the Gallery of Art.







This horse in particular was making come-hither eyes at me.







Speaking of eyes...











OH GOD WHY ARE THEY ON A PLATE? Is this part of some sort of biblical story or something?






They had real flowers around one of the fountains.







More flowers.











Water.








Of course, the beautiful day was ruined when it poured and I was stuck in the museum. After leaving, I headed towards the Capitol and snickered at the people combining the two dorkiest accessories: ponchos and Segways.


Ooh.








The Supreme Court was looking rather stately.







Still stately.








Across the street, the Capitol again.








Hee. These are the ones that contain naughty bits.