November 1 -- how did we get here?

  Despite my uncharacteristic lack of touristy postings, I am taking pretty good advantage of D.C.'s corner on the museum market. Someday, I will post pictures and adequate descriptions of the adventures to be had therein. Not today, though: I feel asleep at work in my chair resting my head on a metal shelf behind me, while recording the contents of a 1955 reel-to-reel tape for digitization. THIS IS ARCHIVAL HELL.

 So, a list for when I finally regain my senses:

* Museum of American History
* Natural History Museum
* Postal Museum
* Ford's Theatre
* National Gallery of Art
* the Capitol and White House gardens
* Nat'l Archives
* creeping at the House of Reps
* Nat'l Cathedral
* Mount Vernon
* Washington, Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr... SO MANY MEMORIALS
* Nat'l Portrait Gallery
* Chiantown

  I also saw VU nemesis again, this time through a window, gliding past me as the orange line train pulled into the station. For awhile as the train decelerated towards a stop, I walked beside it, keeping pace with his window and wearing what must have been an incredulous and horrified expression. Then I realized, what if he looks out? I did a 180 and ran like hell, jumping into the last car.

Ya'll ever rode on the Metro?