This summer was dedicated to that great pastime of all PhD students: finishing the dissertation. As such, I went nowhere but here. However, there was a cool side trip to Washington, D.C. for the 4th of July, as orchestrated by the ever-organizing, harmonizing, and unionizing Sharon Beth Kristal.Click any of the pictures for more detailed versions. You need ``progressive JPEG'' support to see them.
The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum had an exhibit on Star Wars. This is the real Chewbacca costume. |
We actually spent the night in a completely uninteresting Maryland hotel and took the Metro into the city. Sharon Beth never sits. | |
Everybody has to get their photo in front of the White House, of course. Across the street, all manner of protests try to gain attention, including a fairly vigorous cannabis legalization rally. | |
Waiting for the fireworks to begin, we were invaded by an amazing dynamo of energy. Blanche begins to show signs of wear. | |
For some strange reason, Harris came back to town. I decided to further compound this space-time anomaly by taking Harris and Sharon Beth to New Jersey's black hole of kitsch: the Americana Diner. | |
Later, in a fit of thesis procrastination, I decided I had to see a beach. Behold! Asbury Park, New Jersey. It turns out they've got a pretty cool indoor skating park. | |