April already?

It's amazing that the semester has flown by so fast. These last few days, my roommates and I realized that we will only be together for a few more weeks and that's really sad!! So we're running around enjoying ourselves as much as possible.

I finally got a bike but it keeps raining :( There are bike trails all over Washington D.C. and the surrounding areas, and there is even a website just for bicyclists to join up on and get maps. I think it is very wierd to bring my bike into the elevator and then roll it into my enclosed patio, but that's because everywhere I ever lived before, I had some sort of outside to play in. The apartments building I live in is a high-rise, and I'm just not really used to that.

Since it's been winter and the weather has been refusing to really act like spring much, it was always sort of cloudy until a few days ago. That's when Cassie and I realized that not only was our bedroom facing D.C., but that from our window vantage point, we could see both the Capitol building, AND the Washington Monument. Right out of our window!! Of course, I'm thinking Vicki finds the view to the right to be more interesting. We can see the McDonalds, LOL. We walk there quite often and get french fries and she gets nuggets. Cassie, Vicki, and Craig are apparently addicted to McNuggets. I don't eat them, myself.

I was walking down the street yesterday and found it really weird that just your normal average person standing on the corner would be talking about policy. Strange. I've never been in a place where you could be just anywhere, and people would be talking about Congress or laws or whatever it was that was in the news for today. The area around here is so in tune with what is happening on the Hill that it's just part of a regular conversation. We live and breathe politics around here I guess. Of course, I guess it also depends on what you do.

Craig works in the Library of Congress. I personally am quite happy I have a "researchers card" and can go on it and look at books. I've only been in there twice so far (no time!) but I like that I can go in and actually get to read things. The regular tourists don't get to do that. But ha! I live here.