So if you go to Washington, its buildings clean and nice

[sovay]

Tomorrow and for the rest of this week, I'll be in Washington, D.C. with my family: we are attempting a vacation. If I'm lucky, this means that I'll spend days on end in the Smithsonian. (And if your name is strange_selkie, I should have your phone number.) There may be photographs. Mostly, there should be natural history and air conditioning. These are two things I value greatly right now. And now excuse me while I pack a lot of books: we're driving . . .

Comments

[ethereal-lad.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll see you! If you want freedom from filial obligations, contact me (clgidney@gmail.com)

[sovay]

Thanks! I may well take you up on this offer.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I love the Smithsonian! Especially the hall of gems in the Museum of Natural History. And the fossils. And the spaceships at the Air and Space Museum. And . . . And . . . :-)

[sovay]

Especially the hall of gems in the Museum of Natural History.

We have a distantly related gem there: taaffeite. It's sort of insanely rare.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I have read quiz results that were less accurate than that description of taaffeite: how very cool!

Enjoy your vacation.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I am in the vicinity, and could possibly find myself in the DC area with sufficient warning.

[sovay]

and could possibly find myself in the DC area with sufficient warning.

Is your cellphone number still the same? Otherwise, transmitting sufficient warning might be a difficult procedure, involving homing pigeons and semaphore flags.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[sovay]

Well, damn. What am I supposed to do with all these homing pigeons now?

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

What, do cell phone signals neutralize their homing instincts?

[larryhammer]

Oh have fun. Just about every Smithsonian building is worth a day dedicated to itself, and each wing of the National Gallery.

I spent the summers when I was old enough to take the Metro downtown alone but not old enough to work haunting the Mall.

---L.

[sovay]

I spent the summers when I was old enough to take the Metro downtown alone but not old enough to work haunting the Mall.

Nice. I don't think I've been to the Smithsonian since early in college, and before that since a middle-school class trip. I have incredibly fond memories of their exhibit on ancient seas, though.

[larryhammer]

I have incredibly fond memories of their exhibit on ancient seas, though.

That's because it's a most excellent exhibit. I seriously imprinted on Devonian fishes, when I was 14.

---L.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Awesome! And assuming the Museum of American History is still open, you should go see the Henson exhibit. It's a small exhibit, but they had some nice stuff. I was excited.

...Okay, I would have been anyway.

I will tell you that, sadly, there was no Boober Fraggle on display.

[sovay]

I will tell you that, sadly, there was no Boober Fraggle on display.

What? I demand to speak to the curator! I bet there's no laundry, either.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

None visible. Maybe that's why. Boober is behind the scenes, doing all the laundry that gets stacked up in the course of preparing an exhibit.

[sovay]

. . . Okay. I'd buy that.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Phone number has been e-mailed.

[sovay]

Yay. Thank you.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Re "So...if you go to Washington"
Ah. I was thinking of sending you some TDTIAB songs along with the 'Bethans piece. Clearly I made the right decision not to bother, even if for all the wrong reasons.

[sovay]

Clearly I made the right decision not to bother, even if for all the wrong reasons.

Please. Overrule your better instincts. I have only "The War of 1812" and "The Toronto Song."