visitors

Having people visit is always a good excuse to go out and do those things that, well...you normally don't do because they're always there. Like the Archives.


Some people I knew from high school visited DC last weekend, and I had the chance to play tour guide for a little while and it was a nice reminder of why I love DC. An evening of catching up turned into a tour of the monuments at night, and then the next day, brunch turned into a walk down to Penn Quarter (with stops at Pershing Park and Freedom Plaza) and a quick look at the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

I haven't gone to the Archives since either I studied out here for a semester or shortly after I moved here. Either way, it's been a long time. I'm down in that area quite a bit, but not to the museum itself.

Kind of makes me look forward to my sister visiting again in the fall. When she visited last year, it was the time I finally saw the Hope diamond (one of those, "it's always here so I can see it whenever" things), and went back to the Spy Museum for the first time since I moved here. And the zoo, which I love but don't go nearly as often as I should.

So last weekend I rediscovered some places to hang out over the weekend, just to take my book down there for a few hours like I did at the Navy Memorial. This city has so many great spots like that.

Any other great spots that I may have missed?

spring!

So I know I have been absent from posting, but I've been busy spending a lot of time outside enjoying the spring weather. Especially all that snow and cold we had this winter (we're good for a few years now, right?).

I have also been finishing up some first person revisions. See, while I was starting to work on some revisions, and thinking of different plot points, I came to think that the novel I wrote would actually work better in first person. Which, ironically, is what I first started writing it in. So...I went through and rewrote, paragraph by paragraph, the draft in first person. I made a few small edits, but overall I didn't work on any other revisions. I finished those over the weekend, and now already have a few ideas. But I'm just going to take a short break and work on a short story idea I've had in my head for awhile before going back to it.

And of course, catch up on some reading, which I did this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday I spent some time outside reading with either an iced soy chai or a bubble tea. Sunday I had a bubble tea from Teaism in Penn Quarter, and sat at the Navy Memorial and read for a bit...and I think I've found a new favorite spot.

Ok. Enjoy spring! I'm already looking forward to next weekend for some more outside time. But in the meantime, I guess these pictures are just going to have to do.