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hatam_soferet) wrote2005-01-03 05:59 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2005-01-03 05:59 pm
DC is nice
We had a nice New Year's in DC, again courtesy of W's chum Becky. We got the bus down on Thursday, and on Friday we went to the Air and Space museum. I liked it - it had a very fun display on the space race, and a lot of spaceship stuff which was v interesting. I like going to museums that have local interest, as you might say - hence museums about Israeli archaeology in Israel etc, so DC proved to be a good location to see things about the political aspects of space exploration. We had supper with a bunch of Harvard people, who were nicer than the usual Harvard people. Generally I find that Harvard people ignore non-Harvard people.
On Shabbat we went to the DC Minyan, which was friendly, and I read haftarah, which I've just taught myself to do, so it was nice to have a chance of doing it. More Harvard people. I'm learning to recognise Harvardians from their accents - they nearly all sound as though they have sinus problems. We went to the Renwick Gallery in the afternoon. I specially liked two exhibits called Game Fish and Ghost Clock. In the evening we watched two really bad films on DVD, one called The Holy Land and one called Laws of Attraction. The Holy Land was especially dreadful - yeshiva boy gets himself into a series of unlikely situations designed to illustrate various tensions in modern Israel, and when the plot became so convoluted that some really clever twist was needed to bring it to any kind of satisfactory conclusion, the main character got blown up, effectively terminating any further necessity for plot. A cheap device.
Sunday we went to the zoo, which was also rather fun, especially the video on artificially inseminating elephants, and the invertebrates (the octopus was spectacularly wrinkly and disgusting), and the armadilloes. And then we got the bus home again.
It was lovely weather, and I ventured the opinion that perhaps it was nicer than NYC because NYC is coastal whereas DC is inland. W and Becky got most indignant and declared that of course DC is coastal. But it's not! Anything that's fifty-odd miles from the sea is not coastal. Either way, it was very nice.
On Shabbat we went to the DC Minyan, which was friendly, and I read haftarah, which I've just taught myself to do, so it was nice to have a chance of doing it. More Harvard people. I'm learning to recognise Harvardians from their accents - they nearly all sound as though they have sinus problems. We went to the Renwick Gallery in the afternoon. I specially liked two exhibits called Game Fish and Ghost Clock. In the evening we watched two really bad films on DVD, one called The Holy Land and one called Laws of Attraction. The Holy Land was especially dreadful - yeshiva boy gets himself into a series of unlikely situations designed to illustrate various tensions in modern Israel, and when the plot became so convoluted that some really clever twist was needed to bring it to any kind of satisfactory conclusion, the main character got blown up, effectively terminating any further necessity for plot. A cheap device.
Sunday we went to the zoo, which was also rather fun, especially the video on artificially inseminating elephants, and the invertebrates (the octopus was spectacularly wrinkly and disgusting), and the armadilloes. And then we got the bus home again.
It was lovely weather, and I ventured the opinion that perhaps it was nicer than NYC because NYC is coastal whereas DC is inland. W and Becky got most indignant and declared that of course DC is coastal. But it's not! Anything that's fifty-odd miles from the sea is not coastal. Either way, it was very nice.