Week 14

After all that heat and drought business, I sure didn’t think I’d be seeing any wintry weather while I was here. Lucky for us, though, Snowpocolypse 2007 is upon us! There’s this crazy D.C. weather guy that I like to watch every morning before I venture outside, and I didn’t really believe him when he’s was jumping up and down and screaming something about a snowstorm. But I walked out of my building and it was flurrying a little, leaving a layer of white dust on everything in sight. It was so pretty! A few hours and four inches of snow later, the city had slowed down considerably. There were snowball fights, mini snowmen, and snow angles going on outside during the lunch hour at Arlington Refugee Services, and it was an all-around great day. I didn’t even have to mess with the ice on the roads because I don’t have a car.

There has been so much to do this week that I hadn’t had hardly any time to get out and do anything interesting. Last Friday night was a candlelight vigil in Dupont Circle for World AIDS Day, so I Metro’d over there after work to check that out. Gina over at District of Col-fun-bia was apparently there, too, and has a great account over in her Week 14 blog. In true form, I just stood to the side and took some pictures. It was really cold, but it was really neat seeing that many people turn out to remember that AIDS is a pretty huge issue.

To be completely honest, I’m scraping for material this week. I did mounds of homework, studied hard, and pulled my first legitimate all-nighter. Everyone is in the middle of finals and it’s tough to find time to enjoy the last couple of weeks here. We’re trying, though! The national Christmas tree and menorah both went up this week, reminding everyone that holidays and relaxation are just around the corner. Since I’m thinking no one wants to read about me sitting around and doing homework, I’ll close this out with some photo-blogging from the week instead.