cityliving.

after two short weeks, i've decided that i love this city. i'm sure this incredibly rapid decision will alter during the course of the next couple months but for now, indulge me.  the lights, the sounds, the constant hustle and bustle of men and women in long black peacoats over suits....it all becomes a little intoxicating for a kid who used to want to be the president.  there's something about wondering who every person walking down the sidewalk works for and who they'll be someday...knowing that there's a chance they'll be a senator, congressman, or the next president.  i've definitely caught potomac fever...it's an epidemic.

saturday my roommate and i spent the day at the holocaust memorial museum, a place i've wanted to see for a long time.  it was a great memorial that gave lots of background information and history and also paid tribute to the millions of victims.  there was a certain room where it all came together for me....a hall you walked into after going through the section that was set up like a concentration camp.  the hall is only really lit by a skylight and on either side of you lie thousands of shoes. discarded shoes taken from jews as they exited the trains and entered into the camps.  on the wall is a poem and the rest of the hall is just filled with shoes.  the smell of the leather and musk and dirt overwhelms you as you walk in.  i spent twenty minutes frozen in that hallway finally feeling like i had one millionth of an ounce of understanding of what happened.  

i hope that some of you will feel the need to come visit me and i can bestow on you some of what i love about dc. miss you all and love you much.