Showing posts with label segways make people look like they levitate and it's spooky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label segways make people look like they levitate and it's spooky. Show all posts

2008/10/03

You guys in Europe live in the future

Walking around in a daze today. I still have not gotten over the overwhelming feeling this whole thing is fake and/or is happening to someone else entirely. The feeling is compounded by the fact I have spent the last month or so checking out DC on google maps, and I keep wanting to zoom in on my surroundings and scroll them.

The Library is humongous and it's a freaking maze:



Seriously. I only got out today, after registering and meeting the rest of the cubicle warriors, because I thoughfully dropped breadcrumbs on my way from the entrance. Not sure I'll find my way back to my desk tomorrow; the minotaur has probably eaten them all by now.

The cubicle warriors seem cool. We crashed a formal reception at the National Gallery of Art today, and conferred on subjects such as MAs in Life Studies and mysterious shiny pseudo-Spanish foodstuffs.

Also, on my way back from the NGA, I saw these guys, enjoying a special kind of guided tour of the city:


Made my day.