OK, Maybe The Titles Were Getting Excessive

Hello! I'm back up here in Canton NY, and feeling excitable and perky after a lovely afternoon powernap. Napping is easily one of the best couple of things I've discovered so far at college, and I encourage all of you to indulge yourselves occasionally. Anyway. I got back from Washington DC at 2 this morning, and I have a couple of tales to share from this weekend:
- After being briefly tantalized by 60 degree temperatures when we arrived Friday afternoon, a cold front quickly swooped in, ruining all my visions of tossing a frisbee around the Mall, which was terribly disappointing.
- The icing on the cake, however, was that on Monday I was in DC when they got 5 inches of snow, the most they've received in a couple of years. Sadly, DC only employs 3 plowmen, so upon the first sight of a snowflake the city totally freaks out. 5 inches was enough to paralyze every major mode of transportation and send the apparently snow-phobic Nancy Pelosi scurrying back to California.
- This is sad, because Nancy was supposed to deliver a speech to the PowerShift conference that I was at. Pretty awesome conference, by the way. 12,000 college kids all crowded into a huge convention center, listening to various panels on climate change. It was sorta like being at an Ultimate Frisbee players' convention: numerous times over the weekend I looked up only to notice several discs flying overhead.
- Although Ms. Pelosi did duck out, I was able to listen to speeches by the head of the EPA, Secretary of the Interior (who was a ridiculously cool old dude), and Ralph Nader. I shook hands with the latter, and complimented him on his tie. Also shook hands with James Cromwell (the actor who plays the old farmer in Babe, amongst other things).
- Hanging out on the roof of a dorm at GW was very picturesque and enjoyable.
- The Metro in DC blows away every other subway system in America by a considerable margin.
- Highlight of the weekend: discovering the National Botanical Garden. This place was quite literally a jungle, and it was indescribably awesome to escape the gusty coldness and hang out in a series of tropical greenhouses. If you're ever in the area, go check it out.