Yes, Clare, there is a Delaware
I drove through it twice last weekend. Or maybe I'm just part of the conspiracy.
Before the March
I went to a barbeque in Capitol Hill. I met some boys from Kansas who work for senators. One of them looked eerily similar to Rob. (You're not related to any Jayhawks are you?) I also discovered that I'm pretty good at a game called flip cup.
Later in the evening, I found out that Capitol is pretty all lit up at night. I also found out that my friends had left me stranded in DC at 3 in the morning. Cabs to Virginia are $50! Good thing one of the Kansas boys had a car and was going back to Virginia.
The March
I'm somewhere between not having words and being able to ramble on and on. There were 800,000 people here, the largest march on Washington (according to CNN, I believe). It was just so powerful, and I felt so lucky to be a part of it. And the diversity was amazing. Men, women, whole families, young, old, grandmothers, great-grandfathers (one had a sign), women who had protested back in the 70s, students who weren't alive back in the 70s, black, white, gay, straight, Catholic, Jewish, even some Republicans, people in wheelchairs, on crutches, pushing strollers, carrying signs and banners. I kept getting choked up. It was a crazy weekend, but I'm so glad I made the trip. Even when I was exhausted and waiting for the subway in New York at 11:30 on my way home, I kept meeting fellow marchers and people asking me about it (that might have had something to do with the large hot pink sign I was still carrying.
Random New York City Sights
-People making out in Burger King. Apparently they never learned that's what dimly lit bars are for.
-The refridgerator that's been sitting on the fourth floor landing of my building for the past four days.
-A man doing chin-ups from a walk light for an extended period of time.
And for the record
Boys suck.
I drove through it twice last weekend. Or maybe I'm just part of the conspiracy.
Before the March
I went to a barbeque in Capitol Hill. I met some boys from Kansas who work for senators. One of them looked eerily similar to Rob. (You're not related to any Jayhawks are you?) I also discovered that I'm pretty good at a game called flip cup.
Later in the evening, I found out that Capitol is pretty all lit up at night. I also found out that my friends had left me stranded in DC at 3 in the morning. Cabs to Virginia are $50! Good thing one of the Kansas boys had a car and was going back to Virginia.
The March
I'm somewhere between not having words and being able to ramble on and on. There were 800,000 people here, the largest march on Washington (according to CNN, I believe). It was just so powerful, and I felt so lucky to be a part of it. And the diversity was amazing. Men, women, whole families, young, old, grandmothers, great-grandfathers (one had a sign), women who had protested back in the 70s, students who weren't alive back in the 70s, black, white, gay, straight, Catholic, Jewish, even some Republicans, people in wheelchairs, on crutches, pushing strollers, carrying signs and banners. I kept getting choked up. It was a crazy weekend, but I'm so glad I made the trip. Even when I was exhausted and waiting for the subway in New York at 11:30 on my way home, I kept meeting fellow marchers and people asking me about it (that might have had something to do with the large hot pink sign I was still carrying.
Random New York City Sights
-People making out in Burger King. Apparently they never learned that's what dimly lit bars are for.
-The refridgerator that's been sitting on the fourth floor landing of my building for the past four days.
-A man doing chin-ups from a walk light for an extended period of time.
And for the record
Boys suck.
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