Wake me up when the winter ends.

Autumn has come and passed,
its golden tones can never last.
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Like the seasons come to pass
Seven weeks have gone so fast.
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Here comes the ice again
Falling from the stars.
Frozen in my pain again
Snow walled in the cars.

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Autumn has come and passed
its golden tones can never last.
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when Spring began
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Here comes the ice again
Falling from the stars.
Frozen in my pain again
Snow walled in the cars.

Autumn has come and passed
its golden tones an never last.
Wake me up when the winter ends.

Unlike the winters from the past,
Twenty inches fall so fast.
Wake me up when the winter ends.
Wake me up when the winter ends.
Wake me up when the winter ends.

"AC"ed DC

Washington is cold,

Imagine living in a

refrigerator.

Haikus are awesome...

sometimes they are confusing.

Help find my lost sock.

I will write this post

entirely in haiku.

So what do you think?

yes...that's what I thought.

All right, so according to the Enterprise, I am not allowed to write the whole post in haiku...  fine :P

“You’re an archivist . . . ? 

Oh yeah, I know what those are— 

National Treasure!” 

^haha...thanks. Well yes, archivists were shown in national Treasure but we do NOT normally (more like, EVER) do anything like what was done in National Treasure. 

"Organized Chaos. 

We guard Past for Future’s sake. 

Our sleeves, tinged with dust. "

Brittany Parris

Whether it be papers, photos, books, video clips, or artifacts, archivists organize it all for researchers or exhibits. I am working with Navy Deck Logs from World War 2 - pretty fun! Ok, that was a lie. It's not THAT fun. 

My first day of work was Tuesday, the first normal day in the Federal Government after Snowpocalypse.  Apparently, you need a badge to get IN and OUT...and I didn't have a badge...Ooooh boy. Luckilly, the front desk called my boss and she came down and got me :) haha. I'm looking forward to this semester! After a few weeks on the Deck Log project, they're going to move me on to a project of my own! Pretty. darn. exciting!!

Speaking of exciting:

YEEEAAHHH!!!!!!!!

Last night's Olympic competitions were the best yet!!! Men's Snowboarding Halfpipe!!! YEEAAHH!!

As usual, Shaun White was amazing. Pulling off an amazing 46.8 points out of 50 in his first qualifying round, and eventually won gold with the freaking amazing score of 48.4!!! 

YESS!!!! GO SHAUN WHITE!!!!!

Of course, I never doubted him for a second :) Out of all of the athletes, he's my favorite :)

. . . 

AND AS I WAS WRITING IN THIS BLOG, EVAN LYSACEK WINS THE GOLD IN MEN'S FIGURE SKATING!!!! THIS ENDS THE WORLD CHAMPION V. OLYMPIC CHAMPION CURSE & THE USA'S 22 YEAR MEN'S SKATING GOLD MEDAL DROUGHT!!!!

best.

night.

ever.

*~~*Snowpocalypse*~~*

All right, I've been slacking! I know! I'm a horrible person...well, blogger at least ;) BUT these past few weeks, I've been CA-RAZY busy!!! 
Normally, winter is one of my favorite seasons (fall being my first), but when the total snowfall for the past 5 days is around 35-40 inches, it starts to annoy you. 

apparently, the Snowpocalypse called for a raid on Target. This was what most of the shelves looked like:

The snow started falling early evening Friday and didn't stop til early Saturday morning. By Friday night, my roommates and I were already starting to feel the cabin fever, so we decided to walk down to the Washington Monument. . . in the snow. 

not our smartest idea...

BUT Ladies and Germs, WE, five brave yet reckless college students, made it the the monument!!!

While trekking through unimaginable flurries of snow, biting wind, and a RIDONKULOUS amount of ice an slush. . .  

We, the few, the proud, the brave. . . the slightly dimented, were able to see several of DC's sights covered in the beautiful blanket of snow.

 

the U.S. Capitol through the blizzard

In front of the Congress side of the U.S. Capitol

The Smithsonian Castle

The Capitol Hill Reflecting Pool

 another shot of the Washington Monument.

Finally, after making it back to the house (barely) we all sat down to a (semi) friendly game of Scrabble and a nice, hot pot of my homemade hot chocolate :)

Therefore, thanks to Scrabble, hot chocolate, and our well satisfied pioneer spirits, we survived the first Snowpocalypse!!!!

The SECOND one, however, was another story. We were all stuck inside for an entire week!! 

Snowpocalypse: It's Real

 this was the snowfall from the FIRST Snowpocalypse,

 and this was the result of Snowpocalypse II.

During our imprisonment in 510 C, we came to realize that Dorothy was wrong, there WAS someplace like home...anywhere BUT home!! It brings to mind a childhood memory: Muppet's Treasure Island!!

!!!!!!We've got CABIN FEVER!!!!!!

Yes, we had it bad. All of us were DYING for entertainment...so what did we do? Well...

 

we played cards.

and more cards

watched the Super Bowl,

(party animals, aren't we?)

and laughed at the poor schmooks who were actually OUT in the weater!

yes, that's a corgi :) LOVES!!!

Sadly, even with our makeshift forms of entertainment, there were still casualties.

Poor Jeff, we'll miss you.

FINALLY, after the Snowpocalypse II had ended, we ventured out into the alien landscape that was once Washington. It was the first time any of the Smithsonians had been open since the Snowpocalypse, so we walked to the Air & Space Museum! :)

From the Wright Flyer to a replica of Amelia Earhart's plane to a model of the plane that broke the sound barrier, we saw it all!

among the planes, there was this steam powered bike...

can we say, "steampunk?" haha :)

Their suits have come a LOOOONG way, haven't they?

W00T!!!! 

my favs :) 

pics of the REAL R2 and C3PO will come when I finally visit the National Museum of American History :)

 

The Wright 1903 Flyer! 

BUT...

Hold your applause til the end of this segment and try to contain your excitement,

THE

BEST,

MY FAVORITE,

AND MOST AMAZING EXHIBIT:

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS!

The plane that Charles A. Lindburg used to fly the FIRST SUCCESSFUL Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight (from New York to Paris) in 1927! For 33 hours, it was only him, the Spirit, and the open skies (and storms, rain, sleet, hail, and the entire Atlantic Ocean underneath him...). 

His autobiography, simply entitled "We," refers to him and The Spirit of St. Louis, and focuses on his love of flying.

This man was (and still is) my childhood hero.

Every single chance I could, I studied him, did book reports, biographies, papers, you name it!

. . .

. . . 

Oh yeah, and there was other stuff at the museum, like the Mars station. 

Haha, I got kinda caught up in Lindburg :)

1 Way Tickets

me w/ my luggage at BWI

In a way, 1 way tickets say a lot about a person. You can come to one of three conclusions about a person who has a 1 way ticket.
1. He/She isn't very organized and doesn't know when their trip should end.
2. He/She is passionate about the trip and doesn't want to create a deadline for their holiday.
3. They're moving.

Well my 1 way ticket is a combination of all three. I'm passionate about my move to Washington DC, and don't want to slam a deadline on my move there, and I'm not quite sure when my internship ends.
So, here I am, sitting on the couch of my new home for the next 4 months, with no return ticket. I don't mind at all! My roomies are awesome, the house is nice, and our apartment is EXTRA sunny with a view of Stanton Park, and I have an awesome internship starting soon!
My cooking skills are going to improve immensely over this semester. Already, I'm trying out new recipes, making my own up, and getting comfortable with grocery shopping on my own :) I have a pot of hot chocolate on the stove right now!

The flight coming up to DC was great: not too long, not too short, quiet, fairly smooth, and I was able to read the entire time! (huzzah to Alice in Wonderland) We got into Baltimore around 3:30, and got to our hotel around 5, just in time to freshen up and go eat! There was this AWESOME restaurant down the street from our hotel called Georgia Brown's, which specialized in Southern Cuisine. Oh wow I'd never stuffed myself like that in my life! Fried Green Tomatoes, Carolina Gumbo, Virginia Peanut Chicken, MmmmMM!!! :)
I think that Union Station is going to be one of my favorite places EVER! :) The building is BEAUTIFUL, with lots of stores and restaurants inside. There's an AMTRAK station so that I can visit my family and friends near by, and it's only a 5 minute walk from my house! w00t!

a view of the Capitol

pics of my apartment

the view of Stanton Park

my mode of transportation for the next few months

So that's what's up in a nutshell! :)

Back to the Grind!

Speaking of grind...I need to remind myself to get more coffee beans. haha :)

Well, Winter Break has been officially over for Coe, BUT not for me! HA! In two weeks, I am going to be flying out to Washington, DC for the semester to participate in the DC Term. The DC Term is a study abroad program that Coe participates in. However, instead of taking multiple classes, you have an internship at the place of your choice (providing you're accepted). In the past, there have been students interning at State Representative offices, Embassies, etc.
My internship is at the National Archives facility in College Park, MD, where I'll get to archive documents & research materials for the research room. Wait, there are TWO National Archive buildings, you ask? Well, yes! The facility in downtown DC is their most well known one, however the facility further north, in College Park is where most of the offices and stacks (storage areas for books/documents/ etc) are. :D

So, AWAY with homework and classes, dorm rooms and cars! Washington DC is where MY brain and I are!! :)

No Ruby Slippers

There is NO place like home!

No, I'm not Dorothy and no, I'm not in Kansas, but I HAVE been home (as evidenced by my previous post...before Christmas...oops)

Break has been great! I haven't had a whole lot to do aside from playing taxi to my little sisters. My roomie, Joan came to spend Christmas with my family :) That was a WHOLE lot of fun, and for a first time Uno player, she was RUTHLESS! haha :D

My family always plays Uno Christmas Eve. This year we spent the night at my grandma's.
Joan was TOTALLY winning almost everytime. haha!

Me, Phoebe, Lydia, & Joan at my grandma's on Christmas morning.

(notice we have boots instead of stockings...we forgot our stockings at our house. haha)

Me & Joan :)

My grandma has this ridiculous number of birds around her house.

Oh yeah...don't forget the squirrels. They LOVE the "Squirrel Proof" birdfeeder... HAHAHA 

The bird's perch is set with a counterweight that shuts the feeder if something too heavy sits on it...So the squirrels figured out how to eat the seed without the perch. haha greedy squirrels :)

fat bird :)

I love this picture :)

beautiful cardinal!

more fat birds :) haha